"I am scared too. It is why I do not really want to talk about it." Inessa's symptoms are different to Christine's, but all of them combined definitely seems like someone trying to control their bodies via blood magic. And until they can track down their missing phylacteries, they're stuck with their bodies sometimes acting outside their control. Christine gives her head a shake. "With so many working to try and solve this illness, I can afford to take a break. With you." She doesn't want to look back on her life and have regrets, and if she puts off spending time with Church, then he might disappear without her even realizing it. She can't let the last thing she says to him be, "I have important work to do."

"It will be difficult, but you must guide us somewhere and I must look at you the entire way."