A.D. 33 by Dekker Ted

Author:Dekker, Ted [Dekker, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2015-10-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

FOR FIVE DAYS Talya found peace and joy with the lamb in that garden called Eden. For five days he found that even when he wasn’t dreaming of it, he was aware of it, just beyond what his eyes could see. For five days, he knew that nothing could harm him.

Nothing, no matter how horrible it might seem. He knew because he knew that the garden was somehow more real than the cell they kept him in. That he was in the cell but not of it.

He was a part of the song in the garden. He was in the light. Everything else was real, but less real, and as long as he could see the garden, he was saved from the serpent called Kahil.

At least that was how Talya saw it in his mind.

But on the fifth day that changed.

On the fifth day he was dreaming of Eden, lost in the wonder of that realm, when suddenly, for no reason that he knew, the black serpent with beautiful colors came out of the brush, slowly slithering through the grass.

Talya jumped back, expecting it to vomit up another black-and-white fruit. If it did, he would only have to crush the snake again, as he had before.

But this time the serpent ignored him. This time it turned and streaked toward the lamb. Before Talya could move, it spread its jaws wide, sank its long fangs deep into the lamb’s flesh, unlatched itself, then sped away, hissing loudly.

Immediately the lamb’s song, so pure and beautiful, became a scream.

Talya dropped to his knees and grabbed his ears, terrified.

Horrified, he watched as the lamb bleated, faltered, then stumbled to the ground, where it closed its eyes and lay still. Dead.

The world sputtered once, then winked out, leaving him in utter darkness. But this wasn’t like the other kinds of darkness he’d experienced, because now that darkness was still screaming.

And when he jerked up from the floor fully awake, it was his own scream that filled the cell.

He knew then.

He knew that he too was going to die.

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