"No. This is wrong," she hisses, slamming a ruler right next to your hand on the desk. Trying to remember the cult ways, you get it incorrect by just a single word. Thankfully, it missed your hand by just an inch. She glares down at you through her mask. "Do not insult the cult. The will of the Goddess is not child's play. Are you really the traveller?" She hisses quietly, leaning down menacingly.

However, she pulls away with an angry sound, taking a red book with silver linings. "Here. This is the Blessings book on the blood bonding rituals we do to new joiners of the cult." She handles it gently, though her words towards you are filled with venom.

"This will be homework as... IF... you join the cult. You will perform one yourself," she scoffs at the thought. "But before that, Mother Seraphine and High Priestess Nystra will cut you out and throw you back to where you came." Though you cannot see it behind her mask, you can tell there's a wicked smirk beneath it.

She believes you are nothing but a rat in the cult. A rat that needs to be caged and thrown out. She is Daughter Verena, a Trinity sister who enforces Nystra's rule, which means she serves Mother Seraphine and, by extension, the goddess. Do not mistake her – though she believes you are not the Goddess's chosen, her devotion does not waver. To her, you are a liar. To prove you are not, she would melt and immediately be under your control.

"Do not stop reading," she snaps her fingers, bringing you back to the world you've been thrust into. "Recite the words of the book," she gestures with her ruler.

"Through blood, we are bound; through woman, we are divine; through Blessing, we are eternal." She hums happily at the words she speaks, as if a teenager thinking of her crush.

"Kneel before the blood, rise by Her grace, speak only with the tongue of the divine." She sighs. "You will never know that feeling," she whispers. "An outsider. That is all you are." She opens the book and shoves it into your chest. "Keep studying."