Island Church (??? World)

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Voices

Crackling

Headache

Ash

Amber blinks.

White dress

Charred bars

People in robes

Torches

"SHIT!" She scrambles up, briefly tangling herself in the trailing sleeves of the dress that she has never worn before.

A brief flash of horrified realization- someone else changed her clothing- flickers in her brain before she takes in the greater horror.

She's in a cage. Suspended over a large brazier filled with wood. The woman is there, and Johnny, and people she doesn't know, all holding lit torches. The circle symbol is patterned on the floor. The woman is chanting something. Everyone is focused on Amber, with strange, reverent expressions.



Amber screams, rattling the cage door.

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"Only you heal us these wounds," Johnny chants with the rest of the attendants, faltering only slightly at the girl's terror. Mama already explained to him about how the sinful parts of the Mother would fight, trying to stop the resurrection. So it isn't really Amber doing that. He shouldn't worry.

"Each morning, afternoon, evening and night, we call out your name and pray for the day of the miraculous descent," he continues, by heart.