Obscurity, The Sixth Chapter
In which we discover three men with rather nefarious intentions.
e last read The Fifth Chapter, in which the widow entered the sacrament of confession.

Séverine sat alone in the convent chapel for the remainder of the day. She felt, for the first time, some sense of peace, and so she wrapped herself up in her faith and knelt on that chapel floor in prayer.
A cool breeze settled on her skin and she closed her eyes against the night.
When she awoke, she was in a beautiful valley—her body wrapped in the delicate lacings of an intricate veil. Wildflowers bloomed up beside her as a warm wind rustled their leaves against her skin—every part of her body touched by the evening dew.
There was a man beside her, so it appeared, and He wrapped his arms around her, cloaking her in a blanket of stars. His lips touched her eyelids, one and then the other, her eyelashes fluttering with the dust from comets and creation. Sometimes she wondered if He remembered her creation, the moment she fell from her mother’s womb. The moment her head left the heavens and her feet met the earth.
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