The Quest for Immortality: From The Tales of Tartarus by A.L. Mengel

Author:A.L. Mengel [Mengel, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Parchman's Press
Published: 2014-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

There were days before Antoine was dragged to the Altar that he didn’t feel so guilty. He didn’t feel the heaviness of his transgressions weighing on him; he remembered the days that he first came to Miami – the days when he felt younger, much more alive, and when he first met Roberto.

He had remembered that much.

He had remembered when the sins weren’t so sinful, when his actions didn’t matter as much, and when things just didn’t matter.

But when he was dragged to the Altar, things mattered.

They mattered a lot.

For when he looked down, he saw the blood pouring from his body, running down his forearms and staining his tattered clothes, he knew that his sins mattered. For when he was strapped down, as the rope was tied around his wrists so tight that blood seeped from the wounds underneath, he knew that his sins mattered.

When he felt the searing heat of the hot flames below, he knew.

But when he lay there, watching the smoke rise into a crimson sky, he closed his eyes and saw his father. He had just sat Antoine down in a small wooden chair.

He looked up at his father. He had tired eyes. His hair hung down on his head, reaching down towards his shoulders, covering the sides of his face, dirty and unkempt. His father sat and hung his head down, staring at the floor, shaking his head. He ran his hands through his hair, and looked upwards at his son. “It is your sin,” he said, sitting back in his chair. “It is your sin, Antoine.”

Antoine leaned forward.

His father continued. “One day you will understand. But now, you must know, that your sins will always be yours. You will always own them.”

Antoine leaned back. “So what I did, then…”

“What you did you own, my son. It will always be with you.”

Antoine watched his father rise from his chair and walk towards the kitchen. He left the small clay house that they lived in was the same as it always had been, and went back into the barn. That would be the last time that he would see his father alive.

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