A World of Ash: The Territory 3 by Justin Woolley

Author:Justin Woolley [Justin Woolley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781760302252
Publisher: Momentum
Published: 2016-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

The city wasn’t ready. Not now that High Priestess Patricia had to deal with this problem. She stood on aching legs and stared out from her vantage point in the high window of the cathedral. She had seen her legs that morning, and they were purple and swollen. She had no idea what was wrong with her, but she knew she didn’t have long.

The Wall stood proud and strong around the city. She was sure it would hold against the horde. It looked as magnificent as it must have when it was first built, long before people had desecrated it to build houses of filth and sin inside and outside this holy place. That was how it had always been. Through fire or flood or plague or ghoul, God cleansed the world, and then slowly, over time, the impurity and evil crept back in to take root in the hearts of men. Bit by bit, so slowly that most people didn’t even notice, that evil spread and became accepted. It became acceptable to disregard the sacred testaments of Glorious God the Redeemer. It became acceptable to deny his very existence. Then, when that had gone on too long, the faithful were given shelter while Glorious God burned the evil from the world once more. That was the cycle of life, and she would see it happen again before her life ended.

Like an ark of old, the city of Alice would be the refuge for the pure in God’s reclaiming of the world. The city would hold now as it had first held when it kept the Prophet Steven and his beloved wife Sarah, the First Priestess, safe from both the ghouls and the retribution of those who did not agree with God’s work. The Prophet Steven had ensured that man could not stand in the way of Glorious God the Redeemer’s plan for the cleansing of this world, and now, so many hundreds of years later, responsibility for the continuation of that legacy would fall on her shoulders. There were those who hated her now, but one day she would be remembered as the Prophet Steven was remembered. She would not let man stand in the way of this latest purge of the wicked and impure from the world.

And yet, as if God were testing her resolve, problem after problem arose to delay her preparations. Lynnette Hermannsburg had escaped from her cell. The girl who had left a trail of blasphemy and betrayal behind her everywhere she went had been allowed to go free and attempt once again to usurp the desires of God. Who did she think she was? Was she so naïve to think that she, a foolish child, could stand up to all that was happening here? She was nothing. She would be cleared away just as her friend Squid Blanchflower had been cleared away.

Lynnette Hermannsburg had not escaped without help, though. She had been set free, and High Priestess Patricia knew now that Clergy-General Provost had been responsible.

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