Rise by Rachel Starr Thomson

Author:Rachel Starr Thomson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, adventure, battle, demons, warfare, rachel starr thomson
Publisher: Rachel Starr Thomson

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Melissa was coming home from radiation treatment, and April was keeping as wide a berth from the cell house as she could. Without explaining why, she had moved most of her things up to Chris’s cottage and taken up residence on the couch in the long side room with its grungy old shag carpet and its windows that looked over the bay. It was storming out over the water, but the rain had not yet hit the cliffs; she sat on the couch and stared out at it, grateful for the water, for the cold, and for the quiet.

All of those things gave her a sense of security, of stability, as she rested and let herself feel the fire inside.

It was there, burning deep in her core. She could not deny that anymore, and she knew that trying to deny it was a bad road to go down. That it was hurting her to do so. And although she was grateful for the stability afforded by her surroundings at this moment, and though she was assiduously avoiding Melissa and coming into contact with the reality of death, she was also beginning to make peace with the idea that she could not control this fire and was not supposed to.

It was only the beginning of peace. But it was something.

She closed her eyes and let the memory of the darkness wash over her—the darkness in the deep place of the sea, the place that had been in the bay but had not—she knew, with certainty, that she had been transported somewhere else, somewhere that belonged to the world of Spirit and not to this coast at all. She had experienced something there that could not be put into words; it was everything Oneness was, but far more; it was the heart, the personality that had willed the Oneness, with its love and its connectedness and its power that came of unity and community, into being. And it had been working something in that darkness that hid light, creating something—birthing something.

This is the womb, the voice of the Spirit had told her.

The place life comes from.

The birthplace of every great secret and of many things that have never yet been seen or known.

In the confidence and beauty and power of that place, April had walked back into her captors’ hands and brought the fiery holiness with her, letting it loose to consume and burn to ashes all that could not withstand its presence.

She trembled, even now, at the memory.

At the time, in the fire, it had not been terrifying. It had exhilarated her. She had been full of the fire and convinced of its rightness. Only after the fact, viewing the ashes, knowing that men had died, and recalling that despite her sense of confidence and power in that moment, she had possessed no control—

Only then had the fear begun to set in, and the desire to keep the fire down. Quench it. Refuse to allow it to break out again.

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