At least Jesus’ interruption had gotten my mind off whatever torments Luke might or might not have had planned for me. In fact, somehow I managed to summon a sort of fatalistic approach to the whole thing. If he really had an inventive and cruel plot in place for my imminent demise, there probably wasn’t much I could do about it. Mortals tended to get the short end of the stick when going up against higher powers, no matter what the movies might say to the contrary.
On the other hand, I didn’t see anything wrong with trying to get a little divine help on my side….
I didn’t really know why I immediately thought of going to a Catholic church. Maybe it was just more influence from the movies; whenever you saw people fighting the Devil, they tended to be Catholic. After all, the Exorcist sur
