Chapter Fourteen

Vladislaus had carried Salean's dead body to an old abandoned house. He laid her body on a table that was left there.

Long gray sheet covered everything. The windows had sheets of frost glazed on them and the roof had a white blanket of snow piled on it. Dust and cob webs were everywhere.

He lit a few candles that he had found their too. The little light that the few candles gave off lit it up just enough.

Closing his eyes, he lifted his hands over her body and started to mumble and old Latin chant. At first it was slow and quiet, then faster and louder. He concentrated as hard as he could on each word he spoke. Saying it just perfectly. For who knew what would go wrong if he didn't.

As he spoke the chant, a terrible dark storm that seemed almost to glow green, rolled in. It was unnatural. Thunder and lightning with heavy snow. But the strange thing was it centered over where Vladislaus was. From there it grew much bigger. The longer he said the chant the bigger the storm got.

Memories of her flooded his mind. Everything he treasured so dearly about her; the way she smiled or looked at him. Everything about her, he loved. Just the few memories of her touch and the way her lips felt on his. The way she danced, was perfect. Not a beat skipped. Then he remembered the way her heart felt against his body. The way it raced every time he was around her, he could almost hear it and dance to its rhythm.

With said the last words of the chant he opened his eyes and looked at her face. But still she laid there dead. He touched her face and it was still cold. He could not bear loosing her. He walked over to a window and looked at the ice land. How much did he wish she could stand there with him.

He couldn't believe that God would do this to him. After all he had fought for God and did as God's will asked him to do. And this is what he was rewarded. The more he stood there and thought about it, the more he hated and despised God. He did so much for God and God did nothing for him.

After a moment he was distracted by a small noise behind him….