The Eighth Day Vol. 1 | SNEAK PEEK
On the seventh day, after the creation of mankind, God stepped back to rest, watch.
I don’t know who did it first. Whether we poisoned you, our insight and powers corrupting your innocence, or if you infected our divinity with your basic nature and primal instincts. I know from watching that the ones who don’t deny God today blame us, blame one. But it did not happen this way.
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The infection of evil began.
Every generation that man lived through, evil’s roots grew deeper into the Earth, bred deeper into humanity, distorting and destroying man’s psyche.
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On the Eighth Day, God abandoned us.
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A ritual taught by my kind — a desperate ritual, a ritual that should have never been shared — being practiced by a congregation of humans who remembered their ancestors and our teachings…
This was the opportunity I needed.
During a time of the red moon, I set my course for Earth and descended in a flash of light into a deep dark wood…
Excerpt for The Eighth Day Vol. 1 | Copyright M. M. Dos Santos
