Chapter 45: Orion

Mary-Allison Flagstone

I should have known they’d burn me in the decay of an old church. Fitting, I suppose. God’s Shadow hid in the name of God. Committed genocide within shadows. They believed they were doing the work of God, well, some of them had to—Christopher did. But the others, like Hanson, knew what they were—Monsters with a thirst for blood. A hunger for power. Who knows if they were really sent by a church. For this is not the work of the God I read about. This is the work of devils.

“They’ll come for me, this is pointless.”

“Tell me, Ms. Flagstone, what is it like to wait for a savior? To cling to hope of someone rescuing you at the last minute?”

“Isn’t your God your savior?

“God? His blood will be the first I savor when I leave this island.”

Hanson steps up a couple of broken stones to stand face to face with me.

“I save myself, witch.”

“How lonely that must be for you.”