Piety Circle responded to losing the chapel-door dispute by counting mercy.
That was not poetry.
They literally began counting.
Yoren Dall posted a white-gold tally near the chapel shelter after Merrit's claim stabilized and the trapped civilians were evacuated.
[Mercy Distribution Review]
[Patients treated by Healing Continuity team: 7]
[Patients carrying gray twine: 3]
[Patients linked to anomaly-adjacent witnesses: 5]
[Patients treated before spiritual review: 6]
[Possible attachment bias: under assessment.]
The tally appeared while Seraphina was cleaning blood from her gloves.
She stared at it.
The gloves tore in her hands.
The torn glove mattered.
Seraphina did not tear it for drama. Her hands simply reached the end of patience before her face did. The white-gold tally had tried to make mercy look like evidence of corruption, and her body answered before her doctrine, training, or restraint could translate the rage into safer language.
Then she folded the pieces.
