Curse named human

Curse named human - Part 13 / 40

† Curse named human †

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Part 13 / 5 of 5

The last life on earth

The Die and Shinya-Chapters

Even from afar the convent seemed gray and little. The first inner urge Shinya felt when seeing it was to run. He would have never dared dreaming of entering a convent one day but this time and under this circumstances it was necessary. To hide, to span the time until he would be able to reunite with Die again to run away.

The responsible convent's nun scolded and screamed before she had even opened the convent's gate. It took all of Shinya's acting talent to convince her that he was 'a girl in need', with no home and in search of God. As a thank you gift Shinya offered his horse and with a few more scolds she accepted the gift and finally allowed Shinya to stay.

Voluntarily, Shinya would have never sold himself to such a mean old hag like the responsible nun was. Not to mention the sad, cold halls inside the convent. His room the same gray and cold space like his heart used to feel like these days.

He had to share the little room with another young nun called Luise.

She asked way too many questions and made remarks about his quite tall appearance. Shinya sweated, he had to hide his secret well for the next three weeks until he would escape at night to meet up with Die at the haven.

"I was always the tallest child."

The young nun nodded and handed Shinya the nun's robe. He changed into it after she had left the room.

The following days, Luise was kind enough to show him around and explain the most important things. Life in the convent was praying and working, hardly any sleep or food. It was straining. Physically and mentally. Harder than behaving like a girl. Shinya found himself quite comfortable in playing the girl. Moving like one, speaking like one, observing the others around him and adopting to them... he made it his new hobby. A necessary one.

Two weeks had passed and things started to become routine. But every day the escape came closer and thinking about it at night made his heart beat faster. And when it became unbearable, he clutched his rosary with the tiny Angel and dreamed about his Love. Heard his voice, recalled his smile, his scent while he was so many miles away... the precious shared moments only imprints on his soul and the touches mere memories.

His body started to become more bony and the once shining eyes were heavy and dark with grief and tiredness. Even the young girl Louise was shocked about Shinya's appearance. His hair had lost its shine, hanging down to his shoulders and the red hands bore visibly marks from the hard kitchen work. Shinya felt that he started to become someone else, he changed and barely recognized himself. No more smiles, no happiness.

That was the time when the mills of God started to grind.

With highest priority, a letter arrived days later at the convent. The paper was of highest quality and so was its seal. The Inquisition had sent out circular letters over the whole country, spreading their madness in tracking down every suspicious person. Turning even innocent people into traitors. These days everybody sold out anybody unpleasant in their surroundings. And they looked for traitors and unmoral people everywhere. They even included lists of missing people with the letter.

Shinya didn't know anything about the letter. He learned about it when they pulled him out of bed in the middle of the night and pushed him down to the cold, stony ground of his room.