Blood of the Covenant by Mark Taylor

Author:Mark Taylor [Taylor, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-08T22:00:00+00:00

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Excalibur floated gently above Lady and Mary as they crossed the hills. “See anything?” Mary asked.

“Nada.” Excalibur dropped to the ground next to them. “I don’t know what we’re looking for.”

“She has to be here somewhere.” Lady twisted around. “What about there?” She pointed to the tree line in the distance.

“Can’t hurt,” Mary said. “It feels like we’ve been here for hours.”

“Days even.” Excalibur returned to the air as they moved forward once again. “What if the things I saw….”

“What?” Mary asked.

“Well…what if this place, it’s like, maybe it’s alive. It knew to screw with me. What if it’s still doing it?”

“No, Sis. You’re here with us.”

“No. I mean all of us. What if it’s screwing with us?” She landed in front of them. “Maybe it doesn’t need Him to be here. Maybe it’s, I don’t know, sentient.”

“You think Purgatory is sentient?” Mary squinted at her.

“No,” Lady said. “Maybe she’s right. He can’t know we are here, can he? He’d be all over us. And if Purgatory is playing with people all the time, it can’t need his attention, surely?”

“Go on,” Mary said slowly.

“So it knows we’re here, and what we want. And it’s hiding it from us.”

“You’re starting to sound like a mad woman.”

“It knew to bring my mother.”

Mary raised an eyebrow. “Okay. I’m on board. How do we get it to stop hiding her from us?”

Excalibur turned away from them. “It’s like we are only on the outskirts of it. We need to let it take us. We need to go in.”

Mary and Lady looked at each other blankly.

“It can take us when we part. Invade our minds. That’s what we need to let it do, as a family.”

“How?” Lady asked.

Excalibur turned back to them, holding out her hands to be taken. The three of them held onto each other walking slowly toward the trees.

“Empty your mind,” Excalibur said. “Don’t think about her – or each other. Let go. Be afraid. Let the fear in. Let it take you.” As her words became quieter, Lady, whose hand she still had, faded slowly from her vision. She squeezed her hand and Lady returned, and with her, Mary holding her other hand. The air became colder and the skies grayed as they passed into whatever Purgatory deemed suitable for them.

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