Half Dead World: Book One from the Apocalypse Tales by Adrienne Hargrove

Author:Adrienne Hargrove [Hargrove, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

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I move around Kirra’s church and I can feel the warm energy. It radiates even with Kirra weeping in a pew. The room is comforting and has an almost golden atmosphere. Lucius is kneeling at the altar praying and I walk up and sit in the pew behind him. I look to him and over to Kirra and I wonder how I could have missed it. All this time, I couldn’t see what was right in front of my face. I am engrossed in my own thoughts when I notice Lucius is now sitting next to me.

“It is easier to see the truth after death. The living world provides you with so many distractions. It is not hard to understand how people miss it.”

“How do you always seem to know what I’m thinking?”

Lucius laughs a soft sad laugh. “I have been here for a very long time. Even with time ebbing and flowing at its unusual bent, it has still been a very long time. It has enabled me to learn a lot about human nature and the direction of people’s thoughts.”

“How do you not get discouraged? Why are you so sure we get a second chance? I mean, what if this is all there is? What if we are stuck here for eternity? “

“I am sure because he was here, and he told me so.”

“He was here?”

Lucius smiles broadly and if I didn’t know better, I would think he lit up just a little. “Are you familiar with the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus?”

“Of course, it is one of the more unbelievable tales in the bible.”

“Well let me assure you of its validity.”

“When he died, he came here, to the lost souls and he preached to us. For three days everyone heard him, people from all religions and all backgrounds. We all saw him and heard him claim he would defeat death and that we must choose light over darkness, life over death. At that time, his statements seemed metaphorical because the in-between was not divided by lightness and darkness. We were just lost souls roaming endlessly, watching as the world carried on without us. Before the separation we could see all the hidden kindnesses of people, but we could also witness the great evils of mankind. When he came many of us automatically believed, because he brought a light that we had never seen in this place. Being in his light brought such profound peace and joy. To this day, I still cannot fathom how any soul would choose to turn away from such a feeling. To be known better than you know yourself and still loved so completely. But there were those who did just that. Their hearts were so corrupted by evil they mocked him and turned their backs on him. Even as they watched him go back to the living, they would not be swayed. They turned their ridicule to us, his followers, trying to plant seeds of fear and doubt. They

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