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Article: A dark Day
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Author & Translator:Karpfisch
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Creator: Helgi Halldórsson
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"Is morning already or still night?", I thought at the third disruption of my increasingly more uncomfortable sleep. One might think to awake almost too early during the summer months. I'm lighting my lantern with a match, stepping through the corridor towards the chamber of my consort who must be just as bewildered as me. To my despair, her bed is empty and her shoes missing. "Did she go outside? To the church?" We have always been close to the cross, carrying it with dignity, led a sinnless life and kept the sunday sacred. We would never have thought that The Lord would judge before death. If this is divine work, then the seven letters have been sent. I should hurry up if I want to share some time with my beloved.
Just when changing into the street clothes, I startled upon the sound of a screaming woman from the town square afront our house, yet a gaze towards the window only revealed darkness once more. "Please don't take her from us yet!" Then I heard the door to my chamber creak, seeing my son Lothar facing me in unease. "Where is mother?", he stuttered and also gaze out into the void. I embraced him and conciliated him. "Asking for forgiveness in the church. I will go and get her. Pray for us." Tears formed in his young eyes and ran down over his quivering lips, which could merely proclaim "I… I want to go with you". "I know but I want you to be save. The night is no place for a child. I will be back soon." With these words, I left him behind me and closed the door.
At such an hour, most blaspheme thoughts are manifesting in my head, which make me reminisce about the past. If god loves every human, then why isn't he allowing me my Lothar? It was a week ago when I completed the celibacy amongst my brothers and sisters; a year before the birth of our son. Ever since, we were obligated to conceal his existence as to not be punished by the church. This has led to many quarrels but we stayed a family at all time. Under these dark clouds, however, my disbelieve is crumbling, making me realize my wrongdoing. But what's done is done, and I must live with his lie from now on. So my path leads me through my darkness.
The lantern is only faintly illuminating the night, while more lights are appearing within the surrounding houses. Some are praying, some weeping and others are tempted by every sin. The chickens are slumbering as Lothar does I hope. The church stands at the end of the street on the hill, with its cross looking abruptly more ominous than before as lightning is striking it, followed by a rustling in the bushes. Yet my lantern revealed nothing. Arriving at the heavy front door, I'm pressing my clammy hand onto the handle, only to realize it has already been unlocked and that filthy shoe prints are leading inside. Inside, there before the altar, Adelheid is kneeling in her nun garb with folded hands and facing heaven. Pale candlelight on two candleholders is illuminating her presence. I'm hurrying up to her and embrace her. "I'm there, darling. We through-fight this to-". But she pushed me away and looked at me in horror. "That you still dare to enter God's house after you have brought all this upon us!" Only now did I see the dagger in her hands, shimmering in the moonlight. "This cannot be Gods work", I replied and stood up. "We can end all of this. Together." These words let her to the altar to light more candles, which forced me back on my knees. My Lothar was laying there, constrained and disturbed. "And how we will end it." "Murder is a sin! You will only make everything worse!", I screamed and tried to remove her dagger. But she kicked me in the pit of my stomach, made the small sign of the cross and pushed the dagger into my son.
"Demon!", I screamed, pushing her away and bursting into tears on top of Lothar. "I begged God to stop me. But there was not one sign from Him. I have delivered us from sin." She then left the church and me behind her. The sky hasn't opened up ever since. The gods have forsaken us.