I am really uninformed on proper Catholic upbringing
I had the rare pleasure of growing up in a tiny provincial town where EVERYONE was Catholic (except my immediate family, and maybe one or two other people my parents knew) - much as is the case with most tiny provincial towns in Poland. So I have a fair idea of what it can do to people. How the list of things you're supposed to feel guilty about never really ends, and how deeply concerned you should be for anyone who ISN'T Catholic and is therefore clearly going to hell (which is what other kids used to confer about in dramatic whispers behind my back). But that's a topic for a whole another conversation...
Mael's failure to protect Jesse was just a plot device - Anne needed a good excuse for Maharet to make her a vampire... ;>
Re: I'm not coming up with a "subject" title either.
I had the rare pleasure of growing up in a tiny provincial town where EVERYONE was Catholic (except my immediate family, and maybe one or two other people my parents knew) - much as is the case with most tiny provincial towns in Poland. So I have a fair idea of what it can do to people. How the list of things you're supposed to feel guilty about never really ends, and how deeply concerned you should be for anyone who ISN'T Catholic and is therefore clearly going to hell (which is what other kids used to confer about in dramatic whispers behind my back). But that's a topic for a whole another conversation...
Mael's failure to protect Jesse was just a plot device - Anne needed a good excuse for Maharet to make her a vampire... ;>