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“I’ll come up there,” she said, “but not because of what you think.” Good, her goal became more clear to her. We had a falling out in the closet. I wanted to put her and him in their place. The nonsense was inacceptable. Marie needed strict guidance, and what said just now proved to me that she was ready for the next phase.
“Alright,” you think you can handle my tests? “come in.” With the proper and necessary motivation, I could properly test her.
“You’ll be sleeping behind the stove, child.” I bit my tongue as soon as that last word slipped from my mouth. Sleeping behind the stove was her first test, but adding “child” adds endearment. This is my sin. Walking, living, and now frowning.
“Looks like it could get warm there,” she whined.
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Raising in rakes in the covenant can be addicting. I felt a grin of remembrance as recalled asking the very same question when I first made my way to this town. The hill captivated me before I grew closer to God to help me cope with my actions. I had been a girl for nine years, and a woman for six years. I was tall for my age. Tall, naïve, and poor. That was all I had going for me. That and my beauty. The town folk used to talk about how I could get any man I wanted, but before I got to take my pick he made my heart swoon. The Dark One had talents like no other in seducing me. Marie probably possessed those same talents. A siren in a habit would bring questions towards the holiness of the covenant. My grin faded …show more content…

She dropped our good cup while being distracted by Satan. That girl could find him anytime at any place. I took the necessary steps for reprobations.
“You’re like I was. He wants you very much.” It was not her fault. I made her an easy target for the Devil. She was cursed from the beginning. The Dark One wanted me too, maybe he even loved me. He helped me hide our sin and distracted the busy body town as I escaped. Fate brought us back together, but we could no longer be together. This was why he clung so close to Marie. Yet she does not realize how much the Devil hovers over her constantly.
“You’re cold. There is as wicked ice forming in your blood.” I helped create it. “You don’t have a shred of devotion for God. Only wild, cold, dark lust. I know it. I know how you feel. I see the beast.” I began a long ramble to get my point across to her as she silently listened. I spoke from experience because I too once lusted… for the Dark One.
“I will boil him from your mind if you make a peep.” This was my gift to myself. I had welcomed my sin into my safe haven. If the water could help cleanse the Devil from her then it could help wash away my sins as well. Marie could be rebirthed as separate from me. “Whoever sheds human

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