Excerpt from Sins of the Father
Lucian whispered something in that
nebulous language that Aaron didn’t understand, “Bendithia 'r blentyn , achub 'r blentyn.”
Lena had only made it a few steps
when Lucian stood and began to make his way to the front of the church and
Aaron was at first completely confused until he thought that perhaps someone in
Lucian’s past might have been a practicing Catholic and taught it to the
boy. Aaron sat back and observed despite
his trepidation to find out what would happen next.
Lena watched Lucian walk past her
without acknowledgement and turned to watch him as he made his way to the front
of the church.
Aaron began to feel a heavy,
electrified feeling in the atmosphere and began to become alarmed though he
carefully suppressed it and continued to watch.
Lucian walked up to the front
without so much as a bow or a by-your-leave and made his way past the Father
who was intoning the prayers. The Father
stopped for a moment and looked at Lucian mildly askance and then seemed to
smile beneficently and indulgently and tried to speak to Lucian in greeting.
Lucian ignored him completely and
walked up to the cross hanging prominently centered on the back wall of the
church behind the pulpit.
The Father trailed off in complete
confusion and turned around to watch.
Lucian laid his small hands on the
cross and screamed his words with his head thrown back and his body tense and
taut as a bowstring, “Bendithia 'r
blentyn , achub 'r blentyn,” And smoke began to rise from the cross on which
Lucian’s hands rested.
A few people rose and began to
mutter, some cried out in surprise and fear as the cross at the centerpiece on
the back wall of the church burst into flames.
Description
A minister losing touch with his faith…
A severely autistic child with no past, no present and no
real future…
An evil older than time itself…
When the boy Lucian is thrown into Aaron’s life with nowhere
else to go all hell breaks loose and Aaron confronts things he never actually imagined
could really exist in an effort to save one small, tortured child.
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