Maxim's missionary work was exceptionally sincere.
He grabbed Aiwass and wouldn't let go, directly pulling Aiwass to sit at the table, and kept on talking without stopping:
"Cardinal Favna believes that support and help for individuals are temporary and, in the long run, can lack significance. Because individuals might become corrupt or might suddenly die. They are entirely capable of doing evil things after receiving help... and that too is their freedom."
"Just as curing a person, who in the future might kill or harm more people—physicians cannot refuse to help the sick; priests cannot refuse believers who ask for help... But we are different."
"You are?"
Aiwass, thoughtful: "Mages?"
"Not only."
Mage Maxim said earnestly, "We just don't recruit priests and physicians; nearly everyone else is involved."
"... That's rather peculiar."
Aiwass exclaimed, "A faction of the Cardinal Archbishop, and yet they do not want priests."
