Unravelling Desires: A serpent's Gospel

𝑨 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒂 𝑾𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒘, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒅.

In Ville, wishes are like cancers; they do not come true-they fester. The mansion on the hill answers desire, but its gifts are flesh, hunger, and ruin. Its price is not vermilion pigment, but the pulverized legacy of those who wished before.

Father Jeon arrives seeking his vanished predecessor, only to find Mireille: a widow whose body performs nightly rites to the thing in the walls, whose breath carries the cloying perfume of rotting lilies, and whose child's mouth flowers with blossoms that bleed when plucked.

The house is not haunted. It is alive. Hungry. And it speaks to Jungkook in the one language that can unmake him: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙. His crucifix throbs like warm flesh; visions of blasphemous sacraments coil through his prayers.

"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩?" the darkness whispers, a velvet rasp in his ear. "𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙚."

𝙏𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚; 𝙏𝙤 𝙮𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙆𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣, one fed by the widow's yearning and the priest's own Hidden Hunger. And in Ville, 𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙.

Slow burn.