Angel on earth

There were no guards in the harsh and cruel prison, and the upper and lower windows of the iron doors on both sides were closed. The sound of knocking on the door, moaning, cursing, crying, and dying wailing could be heard endlessly.Mikhail stared at the door at the end of the black prison, and the broken hair on the back of his head stood up.

"You haven't reached the place yet, take it easy, Misha, there are no enemies there. Let me find the key for a while."

Mikhail didn't look at her: "Will the key be here?"

"I don't need that key."

Anna raised her neck, her curly black hair fell loose.Her eyelashes trembled slightly, her lips and nose squirmed, as if she was looking for the first spring bud in the breeze, and she walked straight ahead, as if she was going to the door to participate in her own coronation ceremony.

"The Twelve Saints are the embodiment of God the Father's omniscience and omnipotence. We are brothers and sisters to each other, and we are already different lives from the mortal world. But there are still differences between us, the war of Hills, and the invasion of Isabellas , Ethanus, is Matthew a rebel or a pious and repentant man? You are the Alpha, I am the Omega; You are the beginning, I am the last; You are the beginning, I am the end—you are' Almighty', I am 'omniscient'[1]."

Mikhail's eyes widened at the blasphemy.

Anna continued to walk forward like a leaf, her voice hoarse and ethereal:

"'Almighty' would have you believe, but I don't want to leave all the time...but I can't because the Father is always there. I remember everything from the day I was born, what a horrible thing, but I always I am grateful to him for this. I was born in Emerald City, and soon came to Sun City with my mother. When my mother died, Sister Sally stuffed me into the sluice gate of Canaan Gate. Sister Sally’s body walked along the sun The river drifted down, and she had been escaping with me for several days... I was so scared. At that time, a figure descended from the sky with a glowing body. He picked me up, fed me goat milk mixed with honey, and said, Anna, my daughter , don't be afraid, I'm your father. You'll be my little saint, get all power on earth...

"I woke up lying in my monastery room and people treated me as if nothing had happened when I was with my mother. Then I became a saint... I knew many secrets but He was always there He appeared like a light in the shadows of the cloister, and warned me not to speak nonsense, which would bring disaster. After I was appointed, He rarely appeared. But... But I love Him, He is my true and only father... They , the devil roaring in the world, the madman who committed crimes in the Red Moon Empire, how dare he desecrate his temple, how can he be qualified to chant his holy name!"

She roared angrily, and quickly straightened her white robe, straightening her back.

With her eyes closed, she kept walking and walked straight to the iron gate at the end of the prison.

Mikhail looked ahead:

"I shouldn't have come out of the narrow gate. Originally, I shouldn't have been able to come out. At least until I've done everything I wanted to do...like Dr. Faust. But I'm not Faust, and I'd be damned before that God the Father will not like me for doing all that.”

Anna replied: "Costroma distorted the world behind the narrow gate for you. Gabriel went to the holy spring island to find the human-faced bird Cylinder. The Ivan Kupala brothers and sisters heard Cylinder's singing and forgot fell in love when they met on the Ross River...the church condemned them as brother and sister for adultery."

"Damn Gabriel then," muttered Mikhail. "Is father still alive, Anna? I mean the god of the harvest, Ivan Kupala."

"I don't know if that counts as being alive." Anna thought for a while, "I can only say that he has the possibility of being alive."

"Mama has it too?"

"Yes."

"She died because of my willfulness." Mikhail looked up at the moss-covered stone bricks beside the iron gate, thinking of the dungeon of the Hatchling Monastery.

"Being called by the Lord is not a bad word." Anna said, "If you don't go through the narrow gate, you're not Mikhail; if you don't save people, you're not Mikhail either. It's never been about love. Misha, Kostroma didn't die because of your willfulness. She just put the door there, distorting space to force you back to the real world. She didn't give you the key."

Mikhail raised his hand and squeezed the brass key hanging on his chest through his clothes.

"The world inside the door is the reality that belongs only to God the Father." Anna glanced at him, "History and you are real, but everything that happened is not."

"But everything that happened inside was done by myself. The real me is in the real history. If...if he doesn't do that, is it possible for me to bring him back?"

"History cannot be changed." Anna opened her eyes and pressed her hands on the iron door. Golden halos swayed from her eyes and palms. All over again, we still have to stick to this world until the end, and then start from the creation of the world. We will only meet the same end in different ways.”

Mikhail's hand rests on an old crack:

"I was five years old when you first brought me here. There was no such mark on the door. Behind the narrow gate, I let all the prisoners go. A witch left this mark with an axe."

"Because she is Candy Kane." Anna turned her head, "In a sense, her power is the same as that of God the Father. But—this is one of the things I want to tell you. Your Mr. Edwards The relationship with God the Father is so close that you can't imagine, it can be said that the Mr. Edwards you met behind the door is the half body of the one outside."

"Then shouldn't I bring him out more?"

"Perhaps you have."

"……what?"

Mikhail was taken aback, but Anna stopped answering and gently opened the iron door.

An engulfing darkness spilled from behind the door.Mikhail froze for a moment, only to realize that it was only because the lamp was not lit.The cold dungeon that had been abandoned for many years actually smelled better than the black dungeon, but it was extremely cold.

Behind the door is a narrow passage, with two iron doors not far apart on each side, and one at the end.Mikhail closed the door behind, and Anna turned around and smiled sadly:

"Good boy."

"Don't say that."

"Come here, Misha. Come closer to me, you are very scared. It's okay." Anna stood on tiptoe, touched his shoulder, looked up at him, her round face and eyes were full of holy and loving worry , "Come closer, let's talk in that room."

Mikhail, clutching his lance, was a step behind her.The five rooms seemed abandoned for a long time, but Anna kicked open the iron door at the end of the corridor without using Omniscience.

The wind and snow drove straight in, and Mikhail quickly raised his hand to set up an invisible barrier, blocking the wind and snow from the windows that were hastily nailed with a few planks of wood.

The other side of this room is actually a cliff flying stream.So the Black Prison is directly below the Sanctuary.

Anna looked around at the overturned tables, chairs and bookcases, and said:

"This is the lounge."

There are four fireplaces in the house, a large table, nine high-back chairs, three velvet soft chairs, three small tea tables, six bookcases, and four lockers. In that ancient era, there was actually running water There is a washbasin, but the water pipes have already been frozen and cracked; there is a small bed on each side, and more than half of it has collapsed, and it is not covered in snow like the whole room.The wind and snow were howling outside the window, and the wooden bars on the window frame were crumbling.

"Misha," Anna said softly, grabbing his hands, "sit down. Sit down and listen. If you have any questions, I will answer them after you sit down."

Only then did Mikhail realize that he was trembling.He cleared out two chairs, Anna pressed him to sit down, but she didn't, but clasped his hands and put them on his knees.

"I want to know, Anna, what you just said. And... him," Mikhail swallowed, and glanced over the door at the iron gate at the end of the corridor, "what's his name?"

Anna suddenly lowered her head and bumped her forehead against his.With Anna's hoarse and psychedelic voice, the snow-covered house quickly became warm and bright, the bookshelves were erected, the pages of the books were restored, and the priests coming and going were yelling at each other with hot tea.The death cell came alive in Mikhail's eyes, brightly lit and warm as spring.

Parchment scrolls and draft paper are flying all over the sky, and tobacco leaves and incense are lingering among them.White-clad priests and alchemists sat on chairs or tables and talked loudly, arguing about the next step in the ancient language, and the methods of black magic and witchcraft were skillfully spit out from the mouth of a cardinal.

A piece of burning parchment slowly slid down, and Mikhail saw a line of writing that hadn't burned yet.

At the same time, Anna replied: "Aaron Young Edwards."

Aaron Young Edwards.Mikhail's heart suddenly rose, he held his breath for a while, and it seemed as if the dust had settled.

He thought slowly and relaxedly that his name was Aaron, and the same name as the "Bronze Serpent" in the past saints.

"Time is running out, Misha, I don't know what happened to you behind the narrow gate, but I can roughly guess. So I brought you here, and I came to torture you. Yes, Mikhail! You will I have replaced my Father God, I don’t care what method you use, whether you love it or hate it, save him and drive him away!”

Anna's tone was hasty and enthusiastic, but her voice was ethereal as if it came from another time and space.Mikhail opened his eyes in astonishment, as if he wanted to see her expression clearly.But their foreheads were pressed together, making people dizzy.

"First of all, let's talk about the Philosopher's Stone. Judging by your reaction, you also had the idea of ​​it...failed? In real history, it was used on Mr. Edwards, or NO.40 .He was young, 21 years old when he first came, but Isabella liked him very much, Isabella came here once, here..."

Anna pointed to a fireplace, and Mikhail looked at it, as if a ghost there was smiling nonchalantly at him, young and beautiful.In fact, the next moment the scene in the room changed again. There was a silver candlestick on the coffee table. A pale young man with brown hair and green eyes was wearing white gloves. He elegantly made a cup of black tea and looked at him with a smile. It was so calm that his scalp tingled.

The female saint endured the impact of the remaining will here, and tried her best to go back to the illusion of the past:

"That was the third year. She told the priests to wash him, put him in Arnold Edwards' old clothes, and sit by the fire to wait for her. Then she put on the black robes of the lowly deacon, and walked through the In the silent aisle where he was speaking, a hand was dropped before him. The left hand was rotten, with an emerald ring on the thumb. Aaron knelt down and put the ring on his hand. Isabel La talked to him, and he poured her tea and smiled at her. Look over there, Mikhail, what a very polite young man, handsome, with an innocent smile."

Mikhail said hoarsely: "Yes. I have seen it."

The author says:

[2] Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha, I am the Omega, I am the first and the last, I am the beginning and the end.

This Aaron is not the other Aaron. Aaron should be the name of Moses' brother at the earliest, and also the first high priest of Israel in the Bible.Misha just lamented that this family is very religious ()

Congratulations to Misha for finally knowing what his wife's name is!