Request

[Richard Fiero]

 From IJ:
" . . .seeing now the upraised hatchet and demonized face of the M.S., the 
unsaved Vice-nun has a moment of epiphanic anti-recidivist spiritual 
clarity, and averts Blood Sister's demapping by leaping across the office 
and cold-cocking the Mother Superior with a large decorative mahogany 
Christian object so symbolically obvious it needn't even be named, the 
object's symbolic unsubtlety making both Hal and Bridget Boone cringe. Now 
Blood Sister has the Champlain-era hatchet, and the unsaved nun who'd saved 
her has an unnamed object whose mahogany's no match for a hatchet, and they 
stand facing each other over the prone Mother Superior's puddle of skirts . 
. ."

Does this location and do these characters remind anyone of something?