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I sit in my chamber in the Priory of Saint Armand. It is late. The fire in the grate is low and casts but a faint warmth in the cold room. The dank coolness of the stones beneath my feet seems to permeate my whole body and fill me with a wretched shivering.
The candle flickers and turns my meager frame into a dark giant which floats on the ceiling of my cell. The crucifix over my bed wavers, the corpus on the dark polished wood seems to writhe in a hideous agony.
And so my soul!
I feel as if there were a tribe of frogs in my body, and they jump and set up a racket that unnerves me.
Tomorrow I am to be washed in the water of the Christians, those murderers, those rapists, those creatures who murdered my family, raped my mother, those dastards who have consigned me to the most miserable niche of mankind, the place of a slave among them.
My soul writhes, but it also rebels. I have determined to keep watch tonight, to write my story, to wait for dawn, and perhaps an answer.
I do need an answer!
I have prayed desperately in the form they have taught me. I have beseeched that strange creature they call a god, who lies pinned to the crucifix above my bed. But he has not answered me. Perhaps my mentors are correct. Perhaps I am damned, a slave through all eternity.
I did not always think so.
My name is Alethea. They say I cannot keep my name. I must be named Catherine or Maria. I do not like these names. They are not mine. My name is Alethea.
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Kidnapped Virgin
Mercedes Preston
Copyright © 2017
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
I have been given this manuscript and a quill, to practice my script. It is slow and difficult for me.
My mind, according to my captors, is naturally dark because I have no Christian virtues, and because I have not been baptized.
I dread it-that thing they call baptism, and yet they say I must be baptized if I am to be saved.
I do not like these people. I do not like their ways. I do not like how I am treated.
But so it has been decreed.
I sit in my chamber in the Priory of Saint Armand. It is late. The fire in the grate is low and casts but a faint warmth in the cold room. The dank coolness of the stones beneath my feet seems to permeate my whole body and fill me with a wretched shivering.
The candle flickers and turns my meager frame into a dark giant which floats on the ceiling of my cell. The crucifix over my bed wavers, the corpus on the dark polished wood seems to writhe in a hideous agony.
And so my soul!
I feel as if there were a tribe of frogs in my body, and they jump and set up a racket that unnerves me.
Tomorrow I am to be washed in the water of the Christians, those murderers, those rapists, those creatures who murdered my family, raped my mother, those dastards who have consigned me to the most miserable niche of mankind, the place of a slave among them.
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!