Expectation.

DAVID.

With sudden hope.

Tell me, Nullius, tell me: Is righteousness a miracle?

ANATHEMA.

Bitterly.

There are the blind—they are innocent. There are the dead—and they are also innocent. The earth is bowing before you with its graves, and it greets you with darkness. Perform a miracle.

DAVID.

A miracle? Again a miracle?

WANDERER.