There's a warm smile as she listened, "It's hard to believe in something when the world ends. And there really isn't much we can blame. When it first happened I thought it was an attack. China or Russia finally did something and that was easy to blame. But by the time..." She tilted her head to consider and her eyes half lowered to recall memories, "By late summer, 2013, we all realized it happened everywhere and not just the United States and nothing could be explained but an act of God. We meaning the town." And what little was left of her Parish, the local nuns and Father Jim and Father Carlos had been old. Both had died and most of the nuns died too or left to Los Angelos in the Spring of 2013.
"I'm sorry you felt that way but I'm not surprised you do. Some people who are religious do push. I can't deny that. Some want to truly help you and others... just want this power over you and confirmation they're right because they're scared. You can't push an epiphany on people. It comes and it creeps and blooms on it's own." Vesper considers what the town has to offer but she won't say anything. Not yet. "So it doesn't sound awful at all."