The Goddess of Sanctuary Lamp

Isabella's patella was gouged out and she was poisoned dumb.

People saw her as the goddess in the monastery.

Every day, people prayed to Isabella.

They hoped she could give them bright futures and change their fate.

She was naturally kind and always granted their wishes.

Unfortunately, Isabella was poisoned dumb.

She couldn't tell them.

The way she could lead was to hell.

What she can change was from fortune into misfortune.

1

The first time Isabella had a big meal was at the foundation of the monastery when she was twelve.

Early that day, the bishop came to her house with meat.

Isabella's mother had probably been hungry for a long time. Her mother was so excited that she ate while looking at Liora.

Her mother was also holding Isabella's little brother and wiping away tears.

Isabella's father thought she was good for nothing.

He glared at her and gave her some soft bread.

After finishing the bread, she also drank a bottle of sweet wine.

Although the wine was sweet, it was also so intoxicating.

When Isabella woke up.

Isabella found herself at the entrance of the monastery.

She was crippled and mute.

Wearing a nun's outfit, with a sanctuary lamp in her hand.

That was when she finally realized.

Her parents kept her so fed and nourished.

It was to sell her to the bishop to became the goddess with a sanctuary lamp in the monastery.

2

Everyone in our village from the same family shared the same last name, Dylan.

This summer, a violent storm destroyed the monastery.

That night, the bishop had a wonderful dream.

He dreamed that the god had ordered him to rebuild the monastery.

On the day of the foundation, there had to be a girl as an envoy of the god at the entrance of the monastery.

But Isabella didn't expect it.

That girl was her.

…

Isabella was tied to a wooden cross. She lost her kneecap and all her joints were nailed .

Blood kept flowing down her clothes.

The sun overhead made her scalp hot.

She wanted to scream in pain.

She missed her mother.

She wants to tell her mother.

She didn't finish the soft bread given by her father.

Isabella hid them in a handkerchief, stuffed them under the bed. She wanted to leave it for her mother and younger brother.

But she was already mute.

She couldn't make a sound anymore.

…

The bishop killed a bull to make a sacrifice.

The altar for displaying the bull was placed in front of me.

The bishop and the villagers knelt down in front of me.

"Goddess, please bless the peace of our monastery!"

"Goddess, grant the Dylan family longevity and prosperity!"

Isabella's clothes fluttered in the summer breeze.

She saw her father and mother.

She wanted to see the disdainful look in their eyes as before.

That would mean she would still be their daughter.

But they didn't.

A crowd of people was in front of her.

All were devoutly and reverently worshiping the goddess in the monastery.

In their eyes.

She was a goddess.

Not a human.

3

She was a young girl, only twelve years old.

The scene scared her to tears.

The bishop was overjoyed.

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