Chapter 13
Tina no longer went to church. It was not that she no longer believed, on the contrary, she believed very strongly it was merely that the Church seemed just another institution. There was nothing which made it unique; it paid taxes like other institutions, the priests and ministers married and divorced at will, the church services were simple and without elaborate ceremony.
Most people welcomed this change. But Tina was one of a small, dissatisfied minority who dreamed of the mysterious and the magical, who longed for some sense of the sublime beyond art and the exotic planets which everyone could travel to. She was interested in the inner depths the strange qualities of the mind and whether or not there was a divine source.
Tina had heard that there were small underground gr
