Chapter 78- Inside a memory lane II
One does not become enlightened
by imagining figures of light
but by making the darkness conscious.
~Martin Luther
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DONG… DONG… DONG…
It first started from a faint whisper, plummeting into whispers.
“-for the afflicted, ease the pangs of those who must die. Save us from everlasting darkness. Drive out the demons from the valley and scorch the field with your wrath,” Medusa heard a prayer rising and falling in a mournful cadence when all she could see was darkness before her, a path she followed after being overlapped with an image. A solid one.
A bell rang, the sharp pang and cluster seizing her breath for a second. It ranged once, twice, and many more times until it finally quietened. She was in a church.
The ancient stone columns rose like scrawny fingers towards the vaulted ceiling, then revealed a lone figure before her.