4 parts Ongoing "To love this world is death", says her old, priestly father. Althea Mayari de Efeso was an ordinary upper class girl raised by a hard-working CPA and a neurotic Orthodox priest. Everything looks perfect on the outside, obviously. But there is an immanent critique to this narrative.
To her father's small cubicle of fellow monks, Althea is on the path to heaven, and no one may oppose this. The secret, however, is that she has long repressed a "sinful tendency" which only her father knows about - and consequently, she had been forced to cling close to the prayer rope.
It appears to his father that Althea will become a monk and nothing else. However, Althea had secretly pursued lawyership and philosophy in the University of the Philippines. This decision was advised to her by her mother.
Because of her sheer intellect "that can't be wasted in a cave", at least that's what her mother says, she passed the bar exam quite easily and proudly. His father who's too busy in monastic activities, thinks that she's enrolling in DLSU to become a nun.
On her first day in the University of the Philippines, Althea sees her SHS best friend that her father forcefully seperated her from: the French-Filipina, Claire-Marie Seraphinne Roux-Batalla. However, Claire became way different from the devoted Catholic minister Althea and her family had known.
Which is exactly why his father had seperated the two. He did not want his pure Althea to be "hijacked" by "Asmodeus-possessed sodomite communists", and even accused Claire of being replaced by a demon. She wasn't able to do anything, not even her mother who opoosed the decision.
Now that Althea and Claire can be together once again, without any interference from her parents... Will Althea's faith be "détourned" by Claire?