A local peasant named Leweth wanders by, stopping and squinting at the seemingly schizophrenic Estel before turning away and muttering a warning to his family about insane people who talk to themselves - he refers to it as 'the seventh stage of madness'. He then looks back to Estel with a beffudled expression (reference below).
Serwa was one-fifth of her way through the walk, and therefore heard no news, but she did wonder what had become of the old sinner. She recalled how Sermi had looked down on her - what were the words - Finally gone soft?
In the end, it didn't matter. Only one of them was going to heaven.
Serwa's lips pursed.
". . .Hrmph."
Whether or not Laelia was lying did not matter, in truth. Penance had to be paid either way. She continued with her own.
A human by the name of YANDEL reads the missive, and pushes up his glasses. He sends a letter to the Golden Moon Devil.
Mr. Golden Moon Devil,
Do, please, tell me! How can you be a SILENT voice if I get a missive from you that is NOT silent because it has a lot of SPEECH?
I eagerly await your reply - just MORE PROOF that you are, in fact, not SILENT!
- Yandel