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“Cast us out . . . and for what? Our lust? Our degradations? To forsake us so?”
“Forsake? What does that mean?” Jack trembled slightly. “Do . . . do you mean the way Jesus was forsaken?”
Simon hesitated, regaining his composure. A grin broke out, began to spread blackly. “Oh, no,” he said, almost cooed. “No no, my ill-informed friend. Contrary to what you’ve heard, your savior’s dying words were not, ‘Why hast thou forsaken me?’—oh, no.” A ravenous light seemed to come alive in him, making the old man appear straighter, much taller than he had been mere seconds ago, as he strode about the shadowed chamber. “Rather, they were this: ‘Now I am sinking, and darkness covers my face.’ Yees . . . t
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