Already heretics had arisen, decrying Them as false, and putting to torch Their churches and temples. Hot xxx Sweat broke across my entire body. If I wasn’t so desperate for a better life, for someone to pay attention to me, I would never have even tried this foolishness. My heart was filled with despair. I started, turning around. It was spring, but the nights were still cold. Nothing more than history that had been distorted by a thousand years of embellishment by storytellers and priests, or by mothers trying to frighten their children into behaving. These beings were as beyond me as I was beyond an ant. –The Epistle of Isabel to the Faithful 1:1-3
I stood trembling at the crossroads, waiting. All I could do was stare blankly at the wall, my mind full of ash.
