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Trinity
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With the woman screaming over and over again, right next to my head, it was really starting to annoy me. Still, no matter how frustrated I was with her, I had to remember that she was dead and that she couldn't help what was happening to her. I needed to help her out of here so that she could find peace.
"Let's see what has you stuck here." I spoke softly as I brought up her life. It was like the first time that I did this, when I helped the ones that Hekate had sent after me. "Let's see what you need to go find in the afterlife."
I started to see a life that was not a good one. This woman had been sad her whole life. She had a family that didn't want her. A husband that mistreated her. And children that seemed to be just as sad and abused.
Just when I thought that it couldn't get any worse for her, the woman had everything that she loved and cared for taken from her. She had her dog, the animal that she had raised since she was a puppy, stolen by a stranger in the middle of the night. Her children, whom she loved dearly despite everything, were taken away from her because they didn't think that she was a very good mother because she couldn't protect them from their father. And then, when her husband was out on bail, he went to the house that she was staying in and took his ultimate revenge against her.
That was how she ended up in this place. She had not had a good life at all. She had been suffering and most likely feared that the only afterlife that she was going to get was going to be hell. She felt like she was going to hell because she hadn't stopped the bad people in her life from hurting the others that she tried to care for.
She was staring out of town because she had always planned to take the kids and run away, to free them all from her husband's temper and protect them. It didn't work out for them though, she ended up not being able to go without him knowing.
She was screaming at the city because that was where all the horrors of her life had taken place. She had never once left the city, she was too frightened to do so. But she was terrified of the place that she called home. She didn't know what to do about all the anger, frustration, fear, and sorrow that she was feeling.
"I will take this pain away from you. You have not lived a life that will get you punished. All you need to do is let go and move on. You can be happy." I was trying my best to talk her through it. I wanted to help her and make her understand what was going on.
That wasn't going to work out though. No sooner had I tried to take the sorrow from her did the screams that she was giving incessantly changed.
"AHH! AHH! AHH! AHH! UHWAHHH! AHH! AHH! AHH!" She paused for a moment and her eyes focused just a little. "NO! NO! NO! NO! YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME AWAY FROM MY CHILDREN. YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME AWAY FROM MY BABIES. I WON'T GO. I WON'T! I WON'T! I NEED TO STAY HERE. I NEED TO FIND THEM!
"You will find them when they join you later. They wouldn't want you to stay here and suffer.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" She wasn't going to budge at all. She was just screaming the words nonstop.
"Please, let me help you."
At that moment, the woman did something that I didn't think was possible without Hekate having taken her over. And I knew she hadn't done that. It wasn't cold enough at this point for Hekate to have done something again. No, this was all the woman that was putting up the fight and nothing else.
The woman reached out toward me, her right hand clenched into a fist. She had taken me by surprise and managed to hit me right in the cheek, below my right eye.
"DON'T TAKE MY BABIES AWAY FROM ME!" She started to scream again, and I actually teared up, either from the hit or her sorrow, I wasn't exactly sure at the moment.
"You won't lose them. I promise. Move on and watch over them."
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"
This wasn't getting me anywhere, and to top it all off, she was fighting me ever more. The woman had grabbed my shirt, and now my hair, while I was distracted by her wailing. Damn, this wasn't right. She was a human, and she was dead. I was a three times over Goddess Queen with wolf, Fae and Witch blood in me. How was she so much stronger than me right now?
'She is dead. You answered your own question. She is a spirit, and a powerful one at that. If she were in another layer, she might be able to make it to earth and cause a problem for some people.' Why the hell did the other me have to be so whatever about this topic?
"What? Are you saying she might make it back to the land of the living and hurt people?" What was happening here? What was going on with this woman?
'Yes, she could become much more sinister if she were somewhere else.'
"Are you saying that I shouldn't help her? Are you telling me to leave her as is?" I didn't like what the other me was saying right now.
'I am saying either do it right, or not at all.'
While we argued between the two of us, the woman that was screaming started to attack me even more.. She leapt straight at me and I felt her nails scrape against my cheek as she reached for my throat.
