justprompts What do you pray for?

[absit_omens]

[Dean Winchester (hasperkynipples) and Sam Winchester (likely_evil) as always mentioned without permission but with lots of glaring love. Kylie Zamora (willhuntyoudown) is mine to abuse as I please.]It had been over a year since she last set foot in a church. And with good reason, she thought. Anna was hardly a religious person, and churches reminded her of death. Probably because the

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[needsa_door]

If she was lucky, she could pull off a sudden, very quiet appearance without attracting too much attention. There was a message here. There was something that needed to be said, it was just a matter of getting someone to say it. Unfortunately, in this case, it had to be her.

She walked over, sitting down in the pew in front of her, before turning around and doing her best to look awkward. "Sorry if I'm -- intruding or something, but ... what if the answers aren't in what's missing?"

[absit_omens]

Before the woman walked over, Anna sensed that she wasn't alone. But how quickly it seemed to strike her made her curious. Lifting her head, she swiped at her eyes and cleared her throat. "Excuse me?"

[needsa_door]

"What if what you're looking for, isn't in what's missing, but what's ahead of you? No one ever got answers by going backwards."

She shrugged, crossing her legs in front of her and leaning back on the pew. "If you get stuck in the past too much, you'll never be able to move forward, even if you do actually find what you're looking for. Maybe whatever's 'missing' is something you don't have the power to change?"

[absit_omens]

Studying the woman carefully, she knit her brows. "How can someone go forward when they don't know where they've been?"