A Fire to Kindle (Spirit Wind Book 1) by Daniel Dydek

Author:Daniel Dydek [Dydek, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beorn Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

10

Thomas finally succeeded in pulling me to my feet and away from the bench as it burned. A small part of me registered it, but the fire still raged in my hand and the anger still raged in me. “She stole it, Thomas,” I said. “We found the necklace on her after she burned to death. She probably was going to tell you I had rejected it, rejected you.”

“And that made you so angry?” he asked. “That I might think you rejected me?”

The fire damped, and I looked softly at him. “Not entirely,” I said. “That I think would make me sad and confused. No, this anger is how she abused The Beloved, using reverence for him as a means of power. She seemed to long have forgotten his abjection on the cross. I pray this has not murdered your view of The Beloved or Our Father.”

He nodded. “For a time it did,” he said. “A long time. But I think, as you say, I knew it was her own will. Certainly no words from the pulpit portrayed such a life for us or of The Beloved.”

“And no one knew of what was happening?” I asked, a new thought chilling my heart. “None of the Sisters here?”

His emphatic shake comforted me. “I think not. Obviously, I cannot know for certain. But surely none of the other Sisters here had fallen so far too?”

My suspicions came back. “They knew she was doing something wrong, knew they should have expelled her some time ago. For what, they refuse to tell me.”

His gaze hardened as well. “Is that what you didn’t want to tell me earlier?” I nodded. “I can understand, I guess. Perhaps they acted in ignorance, but…” He shook his head. “But if they had, I would have suffered so much less.”

I looked aside as the bench finally collapsed in its burning heap. The dead and dry ground kept the fire from spreading, and it looked now like a simple cooking fire. Different names for different fires. It had certainly destroyed in its time, and comforted in other times. And it said “our God.”

“I don’t know why things worked out the way they did,” I said. “Far more suffering than ours has been permitted to continue, far before our lifetimes—and from outside and inside the house of Our Father.”

“You mean…the men below,” he said quietly. I nodded. He took a deep breath. “That’s what I came to tell the Sisters,” he said. “The men returned this morning. It seems the goal of their journey will not go unmet.”

“What is the goal?” I asked, aghast.

“They intend to visit the graves—they refuse to say why.”

“You have to stop them!”

“How? It breaks no law to visit a gravesite, no matter who is interred. Some of the men have made attempts to…dissuade them—and they seem to take us seriously. But I’ve seen their eyes. They won’t be deterred. I wanted to warn the Sisters, warn you, that they may come seeking entrance.”

“Will they harm us?” I asked it benignly.

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