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"Prophet Cain, do not pander to her It is her innate evil trying to seduce you," h I had been stabbed in my back Prophet Cain raised his hand to stop his protest

"Well, do you?" Prophet Cain pushed "Do you wish to continue living with a damned soul or do you want to join with the Lord? Be released fro breath escapedfor my soul to be free I wanted a man to want me for ht of est wish… for Ky to love me, not the blond hair, the eyes, andspell he was under

"Yes," I whispered to Prophet Cain "I wish for my Satan-spawned soul to be saved"

Prophet Cain nodded, triumph in his brown eyes "Then you shall be as a woman should You shall be obedient, meek, and submissive And you shall abide by Brother Micah’s instruction and strive to rid yourself of Satan’s sin"

It was like nothing I could ever have is were scattered everywhere Tall structures, farmland, and houses were everywhere As far as the eye could see

If Prophet David’s coe, New Zion was a vast city

If the elders and disciples frouards, the thousands of il at the boundaries of New Zion were an army

It became clear that what I had been raised in dwelled in the past This very organized, very opulent New Zion was carryingthe Lord’s chosen ones for the apocalypse

As Brother Luke and h the line of trees into the commune, the place beca and old, stood to see h the backdrop of their chores

Whisperings drifted from their mouths on the breeze and met my ears

"Look! A Cursed! I have heard the stories, but never seen one in the flesh"

Mothers would hold back their teenage sons "Do not look into her eyes, ive over your soul to Satan after seducing you with her looks"

Olderout their hands to the heavens in a bid to save my soul All the time, Prophet Cain walked besideas they all fawned and threw the in tongues, prostrate on the ground

As I remembered my old home, a sense of emptiness filled me I was confused This hat I had alanted, to be at one with my people and to be saved from my innate seductive ways I wanted to live in peace in the commune, away from the sinful outside world, away from the denizens of Satan that occupied the lands And I wanted to live under the stern hand of the Lord’s prophet I wanted to be saved when the end of days came, to be embraced by the Lord and to live forever at his side in Heaven

But as I was dragged through ust or even abject fear--I felt like a stranger, an alien to this hallowed ground I realized on the outside, I was never judged or forced to be soe me; rather, they wantedThey wanted ht they had been trying to corrupt me A part of me now questioned my previously unshakeable beliefs

I had never felt so lonely in ht now Never more confused I had wanted to come back to my people and the prophet, but now that I was here, I yearned to be wrapped in the arht of that devastatingly handsome, protective, yet sinful man as my own He had taken a piece of my tainted soul… of my heart… and made him a part of me He was in my every cell,my head in sadness I could not dispel and uninterested in seeing lares, I stared at the long green grass rushing below ray cobbled stone, until that cobbled stone turned into the hardwood flooring of my new quarters

Brother Luke and my father came to an abrupt stop in a sparse room and threw led to sit, showing my obedience to the elders

As I lifteddown at ray in hair, nocasing lines on their faces that had not been there when I was a child They had both put on weight My father’s eyes had a slight htness of the blue they once were