Devourer of Souls
“ . . . we should be honored to’ve been called to witness this glorious communion with Him, as one of your very own—a young’un—has chosen to . . . ”
As the end of the path loomed, the voice seemed to rise and fall in pitch and tone, slowing down, speeding up, wavering between crystal-clarity and sluggish monotone. It sounded, at times, as if the speaker’s mouth was filled with oil, the words gurgling and bubbling. Other times the voice echoed, as if coming from down a long tunnel.
I came to the path’s end.
Slipped a little on a moss-covered rock and stumbled through the break in the undergrowth, falling to my hands and knees into the cemetery behind the church. My hands burned with scrapes a
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