He’s worried about his mom, you guys.
Josh is a smart guy, he’s traveled the world and learned from the best, he’s literally magic, he has plans within plans and wheels within wheels set up here — and he’s prepared for the possibility that it’ll all fail anyway — except, he absolutely can’t risk leaving nobody to watch out for his mom.
I didn’t tag it in the original upload of this page, but that dove flying overhead in the last panel is supposed to be the Dove.
Josh: Let us pray. Um . . . Ah . . .
Disciples: . . .
. . .
What’s going on, Lord? You’ve been zoning out all day.
Josh: Nothing’s going on!
Disciple: You ask him, María. He listens to you.
María: Seriously, Josh. Are you okay?
Josh: It’s just . . .
Look, if something happened to me, like it did to my cousin . . . You guys would make sure my mom was taken care of, right?
Disciples: Of course!
Any day, brother!
Why are you asking? Did God send you a dream?
We won’t let anything happen in the first place!
Josh: Oh, but something is going to happen. And all of you are going to let it. Saxon . . .
Do the thing.