Total Consciousness

Chapter-3: Heart and Soul

A blurred darkness flew overhead. The heavy shadow slammed into the pine tree Luz had been tied to. The tree cracked and swayed back and forth, sending the shadow thing forward. The mass of darkness crashed onto the earth and bounced twice—green needles, golden pine cones and small branches scattered down over it.

     Through the dirt cloud, Elotro and Aquel looked on in a quivering stance of living hell.

     There, motionless in a mangled mess, Este looked up at the dim lit sky. He lay dead and triple twisted, purple and swollen, and thoroughly broken from bone to bone.

     “That’s not what I asked for,” said Luz. He shook his head and raised his arms apologetically at the two men. “Bring them back, I said bring them back—not slam them back in a jumbled-up mess of tortured art.”

     Luz approached Elotro with light steps. Gentle with his touch, he tapped the shaking man’s forearms away and quickly cauterized his remaining arms.

     “My apologies, niños,” said Luz, “this is embarrassing. Eh-hem, sometimes my assistant gets creative with my orders.”

     The two men moved without hesitation. Luz guided them. And, he had them kneel next to the mangled remains of Este.

     Gooey snot and childlike whimpers escaped each unarmed man. They sat on their heels unable to blink, lost in a catatonic inescapable hell.

     Luz picked up three canteens and quickly finished his search of the campsite. He whistled for three breaths and placed the canteens in front of the battered woman. 

     She looked mystified and trapped within a winding mess of a maze. Her bulging good eye refused to blink or look away. Instead, she wiped feverish sweat from her face and slick breasts.

     The woman stared at the man in the pearl white boots and burst into laughter, spitting saliva onto her lips and chin. She coughed and giggled uncontrollably, as she drank three chugs from one of the canteens. The drink relaxed her.

     With the second canteen, she managed to clean her face and body. The cool water spread relief over her burning skin and deep sore throat.

     The woman rocked back and forth, horrified and unable to look away from her demonic savior. She tried to get her body to stand and to move, but she failed. 

     Luz hummed a soft melody and squatted down beside her and reached for her head. She flinched back with an overused scream; but she returned to his touch and lowered her arms in a defeated series of whimpering breaths.

     He rubbed the back of her head, down to her neck and onto her shoulders, and back up. She winced at each caress he made, especially when he massaged her scalp. “It’s okay,” he said as her black curly hair tangled around his hand in a sweaty mess.

     To her surprise, his soft touches carried her worries away as warm energy entered her through each fingertip. The surge of strength expanded and revitalized her legs and beaten body with new light. And, most welcomed, her entire being renewed with purpose and lustful hot conviction for judgment.

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