The Rule
She knew Someone watched her still.
Her fingers reached to the cloth tied around her waist. From within, she drew a small scrap of parchment. It held verses she had once written herself — lines of psalms and prophecies, inked in haste, in the days when her heart burned to know more of the divine. She opened it now with trembling fingers and read aloud in her weakened voice
“He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.
He shall scatter the wicked with the breath of His mouth. He shall lift the righteous from the pit,