Highlander In Time 01 - Highlander Found by Rebecca Preston

Author:Rebecca Preston [Preston, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Time Travel
Published: 2018-03-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

“God, if you can hear me, are you listening? I don’t know what to do. The memories…they’ve come back to me now and I don’t know if I should tell Colin and the others. What if they think I’m crazy or persecute me for being a witch? I don’t want to lie, but I don’t know what else to do,” Audrina spoke quietly into the dark.

She looked around her and began to notice shapes in the dark. There were several worn wooden benches and the pulpit was plain and unadorned. Audrina saw simple wooden crosses lining the walls in between the windows. Everything was covered in a fine layer of dust, like the chapel hadn’t been used in a while. She wondered if Colin had neglected it after such a sacrilegious and treacherous betrayal that the priest committed against he and Maeve. She was sure that must be the reason, but it saddened her that he had lost his faith. Like her, she was sure he still retained some of his faith, believing in a higher being, but he had his own issues to sort out with his relationship with God.

Audrina spoke again, “I would feel bad about lying, but what else should I do? Should I pretend I really did lose my memory? They already think it is so. Would one tiny lie outweigh the shadow of a larger one?” Again, her words rang out in the darkness and echoed off of the barren walls.

There was a peace to be found there, in the shadows of the night in the darkened chapel. It had once bore witness to a great tragedy, but Audrina found the peace lay in the simplicity of the tiny chapel. It was sure to have seen many marriages and Christenings, and even deaths. Audrina found the peace in this revelation, because at least one who passed and was sent to heaven within the walls of this chapel, would have found more peace than poor Maeve.

Audrina remembered the funeral for her grandfather like it was yesterday. It had been in a small parish, much like this one. He hadn’t wanted anything large and flashy, but that was who he had been as a person. He was always quiet and reserved and with the exception of a few of his poker buddies, no one else except she and the priest had been in attendance that day. She listened to his words about ashes to ashes and dust to dust, and she pondered over them, wondering at the time if that meant he had become a part of something larger. Maybe that was the great power or being that people put their faith in. Would his ashes someday become part of the particles floating downriver in a stream that was bottled and shipped to third world countries to save the life of a child who was dying of thirst? Audrina hadn’t understood these thoughts at the time, but with all of her revelations about Maeve, she was certain she somehow understood it better now.

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