Flash Back
The strange fleshy creatures stared at him, his naked body being the center of attention before they turned away a look of shamefulness crossing the features of the creatures that had starred more intently than the others.
Seph walked to the where the meat was displayed; he reached for the food inside but was swatted away by a meaty bloody hand.
“Not for you, you need to pay for this, leave my shop with your dirty body”
Seph didn’t understand why the large female had hit him, but he instantly reached aging only to be hit with a large broom, which broke against shoulder. He picked up the meet, and walked out the building; the blood form the meat dripping on the floor as he left.
He felt better, and now he was able to relies why they had stared at him, he unlike most of them was not wearing clothes. Seph approached one of the creatures; a large bulky being that had a yellow hue around his eyes.
“Where can I get clothes?”
The creature turned fully around, it looked down at him.
“Yeah streaker, I got your clothes right here”
“Oh you have clothes where are they” Seph looked around searching for the clothes.
The large creature pushed Seph down to the ground, a small trickle of blood appearing on his back from the asphalt scrapping his bare skin.
Seph instantly grew defensive, his eyes narrowing into slits as he stood back up. “Oh I see the clothes” he grabbed the creatures head and snapped it around. E then took the man’s clothes off him along with everything in them.
The clothes were very large on him, he soon found a creature that took him by the hand and showed him to where he could find clothes.
After about an hour of walking, they reached a large stone building with many spires and gardens. As the young lady led him into the building glimpsed a sign that read “Sisters and Brothers of Mary”. Inside he was surrounded by many other creatures, their black and white clothes swirling around him. They stripped him of the clothes he had recently acquired, and then rushed him off to a large pool of water sunken into the ground. They walked into the water with him, and chanted some words he didn’t understand; then submerged his whole body into the pool, and for a few seconds before letting him resurface.
Seph was lead again to another pool of water, this one filled with warm water. The busily set him in the water and began scrubbing him down, his cut was also cleaned and given a sticky paper to protect it. They lead him out of the bath after they were finished, and dressed him I tight fitting clothes, making his body feel slightly restrained.
1 month later
“Amen” Seph rose from his bed, and headed down stairs to where Sister Francis was waiting down stairs, the one who had found him.
“Why don’t you look fine” she beamed at him, her smile hiding the tears in her eyes.
“Don’t cry Sister, I will purge the evil in this world; and even though you will never see me again, you will not doubt see the effects of my works” He bent down and kissed her on the head, and walked out the door of the monastery.
Seph looked himself one more time in the mirror, his new appearance reflecting his purpose in the world. In the mirror was a young man with light brown skin. He wore a dark black long sleeve shirt that was buttoned on the side rather than on the front, and dark black pants, black socks, and black shoes with silver clasps on them.
“Wait, you need one more thing” she held out a small white curved band. Seph leaned down, and she paced it around the front of his neck, using the collar of his shirt to hold it in place.
“Thank-you” Seph turned and walked out the large doors of the monastery, his heels clicking against the stone cobbled ground.
3 hours later
“Give me that one”
“Sure here you go, but why does a missionary need a sword?”
“Peace doesn’t come peacefully”
The man hands Seph a thin silver saber, its handle in the shape of a cross.
“Here you go”
The door closes with a soft click, and the soft ring of a bell.
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Chaos,
better left disturbed
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