Zeal - A Luster Sidestory

"Daggers, Daggers, holy signs around me show me the way... Joseph... I shall walk and they shall ascend..."

The ramblings never seem to cease from Benedict, pious as he is to what he endures and sees, he is the least stable.

"Johnathan and Joanna... Christine and Michelangelo... God I shalt bring them to the light of true God for acceptance into paradise as the time on earth of the pure man hath gone. And he said the corrupted shall stay forth... Natural consequences as natural as they come..."

For a despised, feared, and determined child of The Church of the Fallen Son, being the least stable might be a.. God- send... to allow you see more than others would and even possibly remove what remains of your concept of remorse. But for outsiders it just makes things even worse...

"Give an innocent fire or food and you save him for a day... send an innocent to Jesus and you save him for eternity!"

He walks, searching for those who do not deserve to live on this "raptured" earth to bring to God...  His beliefs move what would otherwise be a broken husk of a human mind forward through the fittingly broken world he now inhabits...

"Heretics are but parasites upon the crust of this plane. They must be driven to know their place, the cleansing fires of hell hunger for their filth!"

The robes, the dirt, the dust, the beard, the collar, the frayed, burnt, and pissed on spineless leaf of papers barely describable as the bible... and the tightly gripped deadly crossbow that shines in some places and in others is caked in rust.

"One day... you'll be here lord... one day... you'll come and show all these calves in chains their fiery end. We shall make veal from what remains..."

All it amounts to a man without fear...
A man with a weapon...
A man to fear...
A man with a reason...
A man without reason...
An executioner in this world gone mad...
An inhabitant of his own asylum...
Father Benedict.

-Troje

Coming Soon: Luster, my first long form project.
Edit: This still isn't done, and I don't know when the hell it would ever be. It's a story about an island where people started going crazy and how the different groups interacted, with the main character "Skunk", a woman who believes a plastic skunk mask is her face, being the narrator as she provides medical care for a three other similarly crazy people who help each other stay alive.