I had never thought to question this sick little world I've been born into until tonight. After the nightly offerings to the fire had been made Mena, one of the hundreds of my sisters, quietly pulled me aside with a strange feral look on her face. "What's wrong?" I asked Mena. She didn't reply, but instead grabbed my hand and began leading me towards the forbidden shore. "Wait stop, where are we going?" I said with in a squeak. No reply from Mena. I started to get worried, where is she taking me? And why is she acting so strange? As we trudged closer to the forbidden shore I dug my feet in and stopped. Mena tugged on my hand and began to sob. "They, they lied to u-us.. A-all the pieces! All our sisters!" Mena shouted while sobbing . "Shh! What's wrong with you mena, what happened to you?" I said while leaning in to comfort her. "You have to see, your the o-only one I can trust." "Y-your the only one who doesn't believe in Father Richards and his little black book." Mena said. "What does that have to do with anything?" I said now more confused. "Come on we have to hurry before anybody notices were gone." said Mena. Despite my best instinct, I began to follow her closer and closer towards the forbidden shore until we came to the edge of the cliffs. Mena lurched forward and pointed at a great mound in the distance. "Look!" Mena shouted out in a sob falling to her knees.
As I looked closer at the mound I began to notice that the small stunted twigs and branches that composed the mound were not twigs and branches at all, but were all sorts of decomposing limbs and bones rotting away. I vomited as the smell on the wind and the realization hit me. "where did all of these poor people come from?" I said to Mena. "Y- you know father Richards prophecy of the ascension?" said Mena. "Yes, the whole story that when we turn 16 we ascend in the great tower to a higher form of being, What about it?" I said. "I-I followed the ascending the other night, in the tower." Mena confessed. " And I-I sobs seen.. our sisters get possessed and drained by something horrible that came out of father Richards black book." "I-I should have done something! B-but I ran instead.." Mena said in almost a whisper. "What are we going to do?" "We can't escape from the commune." I said more scared than I'd ever been. "W-we have to kill Richards look what he's done to our sisters!" yelled Mena. "That's impossible." "We have to get his black book. He's powerless without it." I said. "W-we have to get back before the sacrifice begins" said Mena. Then we snuck back to the congregation.
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