It was three in the morning. “Hello?” Lilah grumbled. “Yeah I’ll make some tea.” She hung up the phone and threw a sweater on before going to the kitchen. She got two mugs from the cupboard and fished in bags of lavender and chamomile tea. The light from the refridgerator was annoyingly bright so she hastily seized the honey and slammed the door shut. Just as the kettle started to whistle Lilah heard a knock at the door.
“Okay now tell me what is going on” Lilah demanded from Jasmine. “Why am I up at 3 o’clock?” The look on her face was angry but at the same time very suspicious. The two girls sat at the small round table talking for what seemed like an eternity. Jasmine confessed to her friend that she’s been having dreams that seem more like flashbacks into her childhood.
“Everything was so clouded but it was very clear at the same time, and the feelings were like I actually witnessed the whole ritual. Lilah I think I was there.” Jasmine said. “There must have been six men and six women and it looked like a basement. I was probably eleven or twelve. There were other kids too. Some younger than me and some babies. It was horibble Lilah.”
“What exactly happened?” Lilah inquired.
“It was dark; they all stood in a circle in the center of the room around a big stone altar. Candles were placed all around the people and around the altar. Everyone was wearing black ritual robes with gold symbols around the hem, and chanting in another language. After they did some sort of incantation the man standing at one end of the altar and the woman oposite him tore off their robes. Slowly they walked to the altar and he helped her on top of it.
“He gently laid her down. Then a bell rang, and I heard a man say,‘I
raise up this chalice, symbol of voluptuous flesh, to exalt the lusts of the flesh. We drink of the elixir of ecstasy to inflame within us the forces of lust and life.’ The bell rang a few more times and the couple on the altar started shouting at eachother. They kissed and had sex while everyone stood there and watched. I remember a little boy asking me what they were doing but I couldn’t answer.
“It was like my tongue had been cut out. The man was on his knees with the woman lieing on her back at first but then she was bent over with him behind pumping into her. A cold wind came rushing into the cellar and blew out the candles so I couldn’t see anything else, but I remember hearing the people moving around the room.”
“Shit! Jasmine you actually witnessed a sex ritual from some kind of cult. Probably a satanic cult. Geez have you told anybody about this?” Lilah questioned.
“No I just remembered it tonight. I must have repressed real hard to forget it. It was just a dream but I think it really happened. I also remembered hearing my mom and dad talking about the couple in the room. I heard my mom say she was pregnant. A child born unto Satan. ‘Let the gates of Hell be opened.’ my father uttered.”
Jasmine sat for a while thinking and then left Lilah to get some rest. She made her way home where her son was sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea waiting for her. “What are you doing up?” she asked him.
“Where did you go? Why didn’t wake me?” her son inquired.
Jasmine explained to her boy that she didn’t want to worry him and that she only went to Aunt Lilah’s house for a little while. Her son looked at her as if he knew what was going on. His look was almost skeptical but he finished his tea and said goodnight. Before he walked down the hall to his room he turned to his mother and said, “Mom, I think I had a preminition. I’ll tell you about it in the morning.”
Jasmine sat on her bed staring at herself in the wall of mirrors across the room. Still dressed she fell back on the bed and fell asleep. In the morning her son came in to wake her. “Mom, you’re still in your clothes.” He went to her closet and pulled out a night shirt. He gave the shirt to his mother and helped her put it on. “Go back to sleep. I can take care of things today.” he told her.
She cuddled up under her blanket and said thank you to her boy. Minutes later she was in a deep sleep. Her boy made himself lunch, packed his school bag, and made a phone call. “I’m Jasmine’s son” he told the person on the other end. “My mom is real tired today. There was an accident last night. It’s a family emergency. She will probably need a couple of days.” he explained.
For the first time in two thousand years the strange phenomena that follows a meteor shower has graced the world with its presence. People in India with terminal illnesses are reported to be making full recoveries. The French are claiming some of old age are getting younger by the day. And the Egyptians say their queen has returned from the grave. Isis anyone?
Rome is a beautiful city at night. The Pantheon temple dedicated to the gods was most impressive with the lights of the city blazing across it’s exterior. Spike lay in his bed tossing and turning. The city lights shining through the window. Ancient city walls, triumphal arches, great public meeting places, churches, and palaces all in the great distance. His eyelids at rapid movement, his naked body cold and unsound.
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