39.- Aisha
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, has taught the Islam to the Muslim, so that their community may thrive. However, some families deviate from Islam and become atomized. Such is the case of young Aisha, who is walking alone in the nights of Aksaray. A runaway girl.
FOLLOW ME, YOUNG GIRL…
And people who don't follow Islam are surely followed by disgrace. The voices of the Jinn, and their mind games, become irresistible. Temptation follows darkness. Darkness causes fall. And in Aisha's case, she falls into an estate in the outskirts of her hometown.
"You are a miracle on your own, Karel," a priest says, while having dinner with Karel. "Brother Francis," Karel says with utmost respect. "Have you come to kill me or to join me?" The answer is quite clear: none of them. Priest, before all things, contemplate. Stopping darkness comes next. "However, if you should fall deeper into darkness, I'll stop you," St. Francis states. "And, if such an event should happen after I pass away, I'll send someone else to finish that job. Someone you clearly won't expect. For such, is God's way."
A good question would be, what's God's way? Is it that girl peeping the conversation of two honourable gentlemen? "You can come, girl," Karel says in Arabic. She presents herself as Aisha. St. Francis extends his hand to her, and so does Karel. One gives her God's blessing, and the other, God's curse. "I need help," Aisha says. "I ran away from home. My family is bad!" Karel looks at St. Francis. "I could baptise you, turn you into a Christian," St. Francis says. "Walk with God and become my protegeé." Karel translates the message to the poor girl, and she accepts.
So, the baptised Aisha has become Sofia, a Christian nun in a monastery run by the globetrotting St. Francis. And without St. Francis' presence, Sofia slips to temptation of the blood sign. A sign of angelical light corrupted by the human flesh and blood.
SUCCUMB INTO THE LIGHT!
And so she falls, and so she recreates her blood sign through alchemy. A Sanglyph of Light is born, and with it, Sofia von Hahn, the White Witch emerges. A cold-blooded runaway capable of eating the very hands that have fed her. All nuns in the monastery succumb to the light, as their bodies are incinerated, and their habits are left intact. A poetic good-bye letter to St. Francis, the gatekeeper of darkness, who will have to grasp the notion of excess of light.
Her first action is to follow the story her protector has told her each and every night. The trials of St. John. The miracle of the Silver Cross of St. John. So she goes to Ephesus, and in her graverobbing attempt, seven blessed corpses try to stop her in vain. They are disintegrated by the Alchemy of the Light. And so, the dig starts. The Cross is retrieved, but is split into a Cross of Darkness and a Cross of Light. She puts it on her.
IT WORKS! I FEEL STRONGER IN THE LIGHT!
But the message of St. John has been missed, and no miracle shall follow in her life. Only disgrace and the stabbing of three Periapt Shards that shall put into rest the excess of light for a long, long while.
And now, before St. John's grave stands another woman, one blessed by the Light. The seven blessed corpses rise once more from death to protect St. John the Apostle's grave. But she is not into profanation, she's in search of answers. "Put that blade down," Lara warns Kurtis Trent. She sticks a Periapt Shard to the floor, and one miracle recognizes the other. Each corpse is turned into a letter: AKSARAY.