Trinity Prologue

"Utterly distasteful," Kris muttered looking over the front page article in The Clarion as she drank her morning coffee. Resentfully she pushed the newspaper away, Mallory put down her cup of green tea picking up the paper and looking over the article her spouse had been reading.
	It was a picture of two girls in the uniforms of St.Mary's of the Hidden Cloth both looking victorious and holding what appeared to be a nuns habit. Mallory wondered what Kris was upset about then she read the headline "Outed at St.Mary's."
	Mallory's heart sank as she read through the body of the piece. "Oh those poor girls, such a thing to be forced into the world like this, do you think they'll be alright?" Kris shrugged as she looked out the window. "I really don't know Lory, Lilith's parents already withdrew her and sent her to some finishing school in Europe." Kris sighed and reflexively reached for a cigarette that wasn't there, filthy habit even though it had worked to settle her nerves, but she'd quit for Mallory, it had been one of her sticking points before she's said yes.
	Kris took another drink of coffee, "Now its just Trinity, alone."
Mallory fussed with her tea cup shaking the leaves around in the bottom. "She doesn't have have anyone?" Mallory asked, her heart really went out to the poor girl "No family?". Kris shook her head, "She was a foundling, so no she has nobody."
Mallory continued to swirl the remians in her cup, Kris knew well she couldn't read anything from the leaves, but it made her happy to watch Mallory attempt to devine something from the scraps.
Mallory sat the cup down, "I think we need to be there for her Kris." Kris smiled "The leaves tell you that Lory?" Mallory blushed a little "Kinda," she muttered as she reached across the table and gripped Kris's free hand, "She's hurting Kristina, the leaves aren't saying it but I feel that girl is hurting and she needs, something." Kris entwined her fimgers with Mallory's "You believe that we can offer that something, Mallory?" Mallory nodded, "Yes Kristina, I do." Kris smiled she never grew tired of hearing those words from her, delivered with such assurance.
Kris released Mallory's hand and reached into her school blazer and pulled out an envelope. "Then I'll need your signature on these papers, Mrs.Mason."