[Mary hesitates before responding after she reads his answer. He is a creature, someone who looks more animal than human. She's torn, though. He follows the true faith and knows who her mother was, and seems to support her mother's true path rather than Anne's. The pause is recognizable, long, almost too long, before her words flow again from her quill.]
I thank you for your support, sir Wagner, and appreciate your concern on my mother's behalf. I have not been permitted to see her for years now, for my father's fear that we might conspire against him on behalf of the true faith. My mother could not comfort me when I was ill, nor could I comfort her when she was ill herself.
The twenty first century? Oh...[ Here, Mary pauses again, wondering what sort of magic made this possible.]
Is this magic that then permits us to be able to communicate as such? I have inquired about it, briefly, but was not truly given an answer. I do not understand how this is possible, sir Wagner, for you to be so far into the future.
I do thank you for your kind thoughts to teach me German. I shall gladly accept. In exchange, may I offer to teach you my mother's tongue, Spanish? Or perhaps Latin? Or French? Either of those I have been speaking since I was a babe.
I...am sorry to hear of your misfortune, sir Wagner. I will keep you in my prayers. It seems, despite your hardships, that you have found a place in this world. I must be honest, kind sir, as I feel that I will not offend you in saying so. Your description...frightens me. Thou shalt not lie with a beast. Though, I am not lying, but I am speaking to...well, forgive me, from your description, again.
I enjoy your theology, though, and you must continue to have faith in God, sir Wagner.
[Mary hesitates, hoping sincerely that she did not offend him, yet at the same time, frightened herself at the description she received. The silence from her quill is deafening again as she waits a few more unnecessary moments, trying to figure out how to respond.]
I do apologize if I have offended you. Your words have startled me, is all, but...I must admire your faith, sir Wagner, and your credence to constantly believe that God has a plan for you. He does for us all, after all.