[Iskra nods, heaving a very genuine and very tired sigh.] It's always fascinating to me how people can take the cross around my neck to mean I don't know how awful the world can be - as if I somehow missed that memo while growing up in an active warzone.

[Apparently, people were under the impression that faith and pain were mutually exclusive, and she could have either one or the other in her life, but not both.]