I don’t mind the handholding readers through the worst of it. (Tags tend to be blunt instruments, no distinction between a few snow flakes and a blizzard, but that’s a digression for another day.) Also, I tend to write minor2’s as young adults. And I love to mess up my characters [as an example from Dale’s Game, Dorcia’s family tree has some ingrowth to it.]
In this universe, priests do tend to be pedophiles, so I’ll let you work that out with the Reverend, but he also does believe at least some of what he’s saying, or at least in what he’s trying to achieve in the long run, ignoring his fetish for Altar boys. I do have plans to explore some of this in Dolbourne Chronicles, which I’ll get back to after I finish “the repair guy” … it’s a convoluted journey, and I enjoy writing these oneshots to focus on a narrow bit of plot/character development.
Thanks for the feedback, and I’ll let you have fun with the mortuary attendants..