Chapter-3: Heart and Soul
The woman stood up with wobbly legs. Her tattered dress fell off, leaving her shattered and naked beneath the copper-red moon slice. Her thick hourglass curves bulged with newly added cuts and bruises. And, though swollen, her face still showed her elegant beauty with a deep sapphire eye, alert to her surroundings.
Luz reached into his coat pocket and tossed out a thick silver dagger, the length of a man’s forearm. It landed with a heavy thump at the muddy toe tips of the woman.
“Listen close, niños,” said Luz. He stepped to the side of the two unarmed men. “Do not move. If you budge or fight back against this woman, I will devour your souls and break you off from the cycle of life—eternal death will be your final judgment.”
Pure anger forced Aquel to sit straight up and to face the certain feeling of the inevitable. He mustered up his pride and spoke his final claim.
“Who are you to judge me, demon cowboy? We are all the same on this miserable piece of shit Earth. What, who gives you the right to judge, anyone? Why should I feel shame for being as I am, for urging and wanting and lusting as I do?”
Luz peered once more into the heart and soul of Aquel, and Elotro, and spoke of the truth he knew.
“All are in the same eternal battle on Earth,” said Luz. “This much is true. Though, choosing who you reveal in the world is your soul’s responsibility. That makes you all uniquely accountable. Not all produce the same harvest on Earth. Foolish child, feeling an emotion or an urge does not make it right to follow it. Fair reflects fair, and it is from your free choice that gives me the right, to magnify and to reflect right back onto you. I only return what you have reaped and sowed throughout your life.”
Aquel seethed with fury, feeling the words cut deep. Unable to surrender his pride, he refused to acquiesce. In the end, all his thoughts abandoned him, and he remained silent. And, as he sat in his festering pool of blameful emotions, he lost himself in his soul’s infinite series of summed up prideful choices.
Luz turned to the woman: “I have done my part, mujer. It falls upon you. Pick up that dagger and commit to me and save yourself. Fear nothing; you will succeed once you move to act.”
Fire burned in her chest the moment the naked woman picked up the heavy dagger. She struggled to breathe as she caught her own reflection on the long-polished blade. Beaten and used, she gnashed her teeth and remembered and flamed up with real vicious desire.
She reflected on the past three days—torture at the hands of these men, enjoyed more so by Aquel. She wiped more sweat from her face and trembled with righteous resentment.
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