"No," Maya replied serenely, moving her gaze to the bird image at the front. But there was something fallacious about Landel including this structure in the asylum, was there not? All of the religions she'd heard of advocated the sort of thing that the good overlord doctor never seemed to practice. Unless Landel had done it to appease his conscience.

Maya found that unlikely, for the simple reason that he'd never seemed to display anything of the sort. Thayer had said something about the necessity of the asylum; Landel didn't express such feelings.

Pointless speculation. She turned her thoughts back to the situation at hand. Perhaps a conversational distraction was in order. Then again, she hadn't heard what her companion for the morning had mumbled. "To whom are you praying?"