When Sarah heard her sister arguing with Caleb, she quickly opened a small cupboard that lead into the food cellar. She quietly walked further in listening to their voices before bumping into a pigs head.
She tried to find many ways out before noticing a small flame light. She crawls towards it only to find a stone like room. Grabbing a unlit torch stick before holding it over the small flame.
Around the flame was some type of craved out stone that held a dark substance as well as the head of a dead goat. Sarah crouches down before dipping her fingers into the dark substance before pulling them out in shock. It was blood.
She then looks over at a small book. It was the same book she saw at the widows hut. It was opened on a page that shocked her beyond her worse nightmares.
It was devil worshipping. The title reading : A simple exchange.
Looking up she sees her sisters beloved climbing under the small opening, staring directly at her. She stands up in shock, staring at him in disbelief.
"You!" She whispers her lips quivering in absolute fear "It's you."
"I'm still me." his voice sounded proud, almost happy even. "I've always been me. Only I've grown tired of watching fortune turn a blind eye to me."
"How could you?" She walked away from him as he began walking closer.
"How could i what? Take what we all want?" He stares at her grudgingly, his anger and jealousy building up slightly. "What we all came here for? Power, prosperity, legacy."
She watches him in disgust as he continues speaking. "Consider Sarah. A single soul." He walks over to the stone wall beside him, pointing to a name. "Just one."
"Pastor Miller."
"And in return what no amount of praying could ever bring." Unknown to the pair of them, near them Selena was feeling famished so she enters the food cellar, upon entering she sat down eating some apple pie that was left over. She sat there oblivious to what was happening.
"One person every few years seems a small price to pay."
"One person? The Pastor slew twelve children. Selena and I's brother. Innocents." At the mention of her name Solomon grew angrier.
"Innocents. Who's innocent beside my love?" He stares at her in frustration as she stares at him, her eyes so much like the girl he loved. "Your neighbours hunt you, forsake you, curse your name!"
"Everywhere is ignorance! Dread. Yet you resign yourself to it!" He points at her angrily. "They're afraid because they know you're different. And you are." He walks towards her backing her into the stone wall making her drop the torch in shock.
"You are someone who refuses to settle for the rules of these dogmatists, who seeks more from the world not for just yourself but for your beautiful sister." He grabs a hold of his sister in laws shoulders staring at her with honest eyes.
"You want whats best for Selena. You are like me." She nods at him tears dripping.
"You're right. I want what is best for my sister." She grips onto her sisters knife before plunging it into his side. "But i will never be like you. And i will make sure my sister sees what kind of monster you truly are."
She pulls the knife out of him as he stares up at her in shock before she attempts to rush away only to be held by him as he swings a rock into her head.
The small echoed screams of Sarah leave the small crawl space making Selena frown in confusion. She hears her name being screamed before following the small light that she hadn't noticed before.
"Sarah!" Solomon yells out not noticing Selena's small figure crawling out as he rushes after Sarah.
Selena looks around the room to see the devils work on the floor with fire in the middle of it. She watches as her beloved grabs a knife holding his side before rushing after sarah.
Selena comes to the realisation of what had was happening before rushing after them. She gets lost in the darkness before screaming out. "Sarah! Where are you?" At the sound of her voice Solomon's shoulder sink ever more but Sarah smiles gleefully knowing that her sister would take her side.
Seeing a light a head of her she quietly rushes towards it before smiling seeing her sisters figure. She grabs a hold of her sister should making her jump and turn around, Selena unfortunately did not realise that her sister was holding her knife.
Sarah stares at her sister in shock as she pulls the knife out of her slowly. Watching as her sisters shoulders go slack before falling to the floor. "No no no." Sarah places her hand onto her sister chest watching as she bled slowly.
"Run Sarah!" Selena pushes her sister away nodding her forgiveness as the girl tried to explain. "I love you."
"I love you too little one." Sarah rushes away crying as her sister slowly bled out.
Selena laid against a stone wall hearing the screams of her so called loves and dear sisters screams. The light slowly left her beautiful eyes.
She barely had lived and she was already being taken away from everything and everyone she loved.
"I will not allow you to bring her down with you. Especially over a dalliance." He shook his head at her "You should've joined me when I asked Sarah. Then this would've been very different."
Solomon spat as he stares down at the girl who now held her wrist screaming in pain after it being pulled off.
Sarah kicks him in his bleeding side before rushing away to find an exit.
After a minute she found her way out ending up in the towns church, her hope of being saved only to be ripped away from her as Solomon grips the back of her head.
"I found the witch!" Solomon screams out alerting the towns people.
No one knew as they were all heading to the large tree in the meadow that her sister laid dead in a pool of her own blood.
"The truth will come out." Sarah whispered to the man as he tied her in chains. "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but it will come out. The truth shall be your curse and it will follow you wherever you go."
Joseph Jones watches she whispers to her sisters fiance, his glare deepens as solomons face drops. Joseph wasn't stupid. He knew that Solomon had something to do with this and the girl he had loved ever since he was a boy was missing.
She would've stopped this if she were there.
It was only after the girl had confessed and been hung that Solomon remembered hearing his loves voice in his stone cave.
After all the towns people left the hanging body if Sarah Fier, he rushes back to his home before going back down to the cave.
He searches the cave for just a few moments before finding the body of the young and also innocent Selena Fier.
Her body was still leant up against the wall. The blood had stopped flowing from her chest. It looked like she was at peace.
Solomon drops to the ground in sadness, screaming out, crying his lung out as he stared at the girl he loved more than anyone.
He quickly bundles her up before taking her to the place where it all began.
He scrambles through the book onto a resurrection incatantion, he quickly reads the words aloud.
She never woke.
The man weeps staring down at her face, before the soft voice of Selena spoke in his head.
"For this innocent sacrifice Solomon Goode, she will live. But not in this life. She will live many lives."
"And because of her innocence, I shall allow her to live these lives to whatever extent for her heart is so pure but the moment she shall fall for another Goode will be the last, until it restarts. She will always love to her heart gives out. Trick is it will always be your descendants."
"This is your curse Solomon Goode. You have now cursed this poor girl to damnation, for nothing. You will live the rest of your life knowing that you have not just cursed Selena Fier but also her in every other live I shall allow her to have."
The soft voice finally finished making the man glare downwards. His love would forever be damned. All because of his greed. Because he was too selfish to let her go.