Chapter 11: His Butler, The Patient
"It's you?!" I chocked in astonishment, for there in my view stood she of my past, Sister Margret!
"It's been a while, Sofina!" Her honey voice rang to my ears, as if we were back in the old church.
"Sister Margret! What are you-? Why are you….?!" I gasped, no sobbed. I hadn't seen my dear friend in so long, at one point in my life I had even forgotten her, but here she was, still the same woman. The same crisp brown hair, those shallow ember eyes that held a hint of majesty to them, her mocha colored skin, and that strange skinny silhouette. It was like she never aged, like she was immortal and time was her nothing to her. I was shocked to see her here. And even more shocked to see her in that outfit.
"Ha ha, it's nice to see you too." She laughed approaching me. She even smelled the same.
"Are you…?" I couldn't finish that thought. The thought of her being a…
"Late night entertainer, yes I am. The nunnery was no place for me." She smiled despite my shock.
"Is this hard to believe?"
"That I'd find someone who was once so entranced by God, the forsaken land of the red light district….yes, it is quite difficult to grasp." I solemnly answered.
"I was just that…." She spoke bitterly. "Noting more nothing less."
Her tone struck me in a spell of dizziness.
"Enough about me though…" She smiled warmly, "What of you? I see now you work for the dog of the underworld."
"Dog of the…underworld?" I slowly comprehended.
"Don't be so blind child," she sneered, "your adolescent years are at their end. Eighteen years you have walked among us and yet you act like an ordinary human girl!"
The honey in her voice had gone. She was no longer the woman I once knew.
"What happened to you…?" I asked in disbelief.
"Life." She answered coldly. "How did you come to meet the dog and his butler?"
"By chance…" I huffed processing what she had said. How could life, especially in the nunnery have done this to a woman.
"Do lie, you worm." She growled angrily.
"Why do you spit venom at me?!" I snapped, "I have done you no wrong!"
"You wish to know why?..." She laughed to herself, "I lost my grace to the man you walked in with."
"What….?"
"Sebastian," She snickered darkly, "Oh he's had his eye on you from the very beginning."
"What do you mean…." I stared at her in shock.
"Six years ago, he come to the orphanage in search of you, he even called for you by name. We knew he was demon. I happened to be the one he answered to. When I refused to bring him to you he seduced me. I lost grace to him." Her eyes grew dark.
"And then I showed him to you. And all he did was smile and say he would be back for you. Not long after that you left for the academy. The Nuns had learned of my affair and expelled me from the practice. My only thought was to be with him. He had made love to me, he care for me just the same….Right?"
She looked at me as if wanting my answer. But no answer came. And she just laughed.
"Wrong, oh how wrong! All he wanted was YOU! He waited for YOU! He went through me for YOU!" She jerked forward and caught my wrist in her hand.
"And what was to become of me?! If all he wanted was you, then he didn't need me! I was garbage to him now! He knew where you were and he would wait! Forcing me to work at this shithole!"
She spat at my feet and pushed me to the ground.
"It's your fault! You whore! You wretched! You…..DEMON!"