Chapter 25: The Rose Garden Orphanage

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-Corina-


I bit my lip as I looked down at the ground. Taiga, Matthew, and I currently stood in the office of the head nun who ran the church the nameplate on her desk read Sister Nancy.

"So you three are the volunteers correct did you bring your letters of recommendation from the church?" She asked us smiling slightly.

"Of course we did, Sister. In fact, Sister Millia has them with her," Taiga said gesturing to me.

I almost instantly said the words excuse me but forced myself to keep quiet.

I patted my robes and when I did I found some papers folded up inside.

When in the world did these get here? Did Taiga put these here somehow?

After I unfolded the paperwork I handed it over to Nancy which made her smile when she started looking it over. "Let's see, Sister Millia, Father Leon, and Father Matthew for volunteers your credentials are amazing as though the Pope himself wrote them," she said grinning.

Taiga just nodded and gave a small chuckle. She stood up. "I'll be right back please excuse me, I have to phone one of my colleagues to verify these of course just standard procedure," she explained before leaving the room.

The moment she was gone I heard Taiga let out a low growl then he walked behind the desk and began carefully going through the drawers.

"Hey what are you doing?" Matthew asked him.

"Looking for something obviously," Taiga mumbled as he continued his search through the desk.

"Yes I can see that, but for what exactly?" Matthew asked.

Taiga stopped for a second as he sneered at Matthew. "Honestly since you're a demon now I'm surprised that you don't smell what's in this place. I swear it reeks of righteousness and elitism," he grumbled.

"It does?" I asked as I slowly looked around the room.

The only thing I smell is bleach.

That god awful smell of bleach.

Taiga nodded but then froze up for a moment I saw his hand dart inside the drawer then a moment later he set a medium sized silver cross down on the desk.

Matthew narrowed his eyes and let out a strange hissing sound when he saw the cross. "It's almost as bad as the church," he whispered.

"No this is worse. A church's effects can fade over time especially if they're not built on sacred ground however a crosses powers tend to stay clinging to whoever has them," Taiga mumbled.

He turned and flung open the windows behind him then he tossed the cross into the air. A moment later I saw a large black bird fly by catching it before combusting into a flurry of feathers and ash.

"There, for now, the problem is solved but since this place doubles as a covenant that means three things," Taiga said.

"Okay, and what exactly are those three things?" I asked him.

"One there will be more of those so that means that Matthew and I will be weakened, two it means that since Elize is still here her puppet is the embodiment of something else so to speak, finally she has the advantage so all we can do is look for cracks in the armor that she already has," Taiga explained.

Of course, this wouldn't be easy.

When Nancy came back she also came back with three other men and holding pages of paper with writing on it.

"Okay so, Father Leon you will be teaching the class 3 at the current moment they're learning transubstantiation, Father Matthew will be helping in the kitchen and Sister Millia you can help out in the greenhouse watering and clipping the plants," Nancy informed us as she had us each a few pieces of paper.

Each piece had a map and a list of chores along with a schedule.

"I have given you three list of rules I would like it memorized. Four PM is tea time but is expected to be carried out in an orderly fashion. All dorms are separate of course but still please lock your doors at night, after all, evil comes in all forms and only our Lord can protect you from it," Nancy explained.

I glanced over at Taiga and noticed that he looked like he was forcing himself to keep from laughing.

Once I left the office I headed toward the female dorms to place my things in my room. The moment I got inside my room and locked the door Opal burst out of luggage like a spring let out a loud hiss as his stiff body rolled out.

I knelt down next to him as he coughed slightly. "Are you okay?" I whispered.

After a few moments of wheezing and flexing Opal slowly sat up and I let out a sigh of relief. "That's good, you were probably just surprised to wake up in such a cramped, airless space all of a sudden especially with such a heavy weapon inside of your body," I told him as I poked his tummy.

I stood up and looked around my room slowly. The room was made completely from concrete with a metal frame bed and a simple mattress consisting of just a pillow and a few blankets. I saw a small television sitting on top of a wooden dresser and right beside that lay a bible.

A dark wooden cross hung from the wall on the left it was the only decorative thing inside the bleak space. And my only light was a single large light bulb in the ceiling.

This isn't a bedroom.

I picked up Opal as something about this room dawned on me something that sent a chill across my skin.

"Opal, this place is a prison. It's a prison worse than the asylum," I whispered.


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