Volume III. Chapter 1. Sweltering encourage

Welcome to the Volume III Servitude

Chapter 1. Sweltering encourage

"The to-do list for a long, hard week is finally almost completed, all that remains to meet the one who will be brought to us tomorrow at sunrise. I'm busy! The most important thing is not to deviate from the plan, but if we do, we will use a backup plan. Everything should have its own order. It's already evening, the week has gone well, I won't sleep all night, it's time to put out the candles." A warm room with bright walls. The ceiling light was off, it was dark, and only 3 candles were burning, giving off a soft glow. Silence. The windows are covered with dark curtains. The girl finished writing in her notebook. Her hair was blonde and her ears were long, again. Looking tired from the outside, she didn't even dare to rest. Her eyes are green, and her eyelashes are still as light as her hair. Having extinguished the candles, someone had already prepared all the clothes in advance, learned the entire text with which she would welcome a new member of the society to the team, and did everything possible in advance. She always wanted to work, she wanted to do everything at once. That's why she got respect in the team. Sitting in silence and darkness in sadness, her eyes were glued shut. The plan for three weeks ahead had already been written long ago, there was nothing to do but wait. Aura managed to close her eyes, but it was difficult to fall asleep because of the excitement, because an innocent elf girl was coming to the team. Three in the morning. The Epistles of John. And why would she actually memorize the Bible? It's time to go out and meet an innocent soul. Aura had put on a long and strange dress with a large hood made entirely of white cotton fabric in advance. It's cold at dawn, but they endure everything, as if it were meant to be, to suffer. After walking through the last darkness until the first rays of the sun through the entire territory, she went out the gate. Walking along a long-laid path, before reaching its end, the two in black capes that were given to her by the one who was supposed to bring a new member of the team, approached her. The faces were almost invisible, the sun was rising in rather sinful, bloody rays, and the black trees were terrifying because of the lighting around them. They were both sleeping badly, muttering prayers and assents to each other. Cold. The rays of the sun slowly illuminated the area, but the trees remained gloomy. "The sky turned vermilion when an adult pushed an innocent body closer to me. The girl held her hands to her chest, felt cold or worried and even I, standing next to her, could hear her heartbeat. The elf girl was obviously very sleepy and trudged along behind me quite slowly, while the one who brought her walked further and further away from us. For a long time and slowly we approached the gate, the sky was already becoming clearer and bluer. She yawned so often, but I can see how she was holding back, afraid to yawn loudly. I wonder what her fate is, what holds back her natural needs. Welcome to your room. You can rest for the whole day. I'll come by tonight..Good night new girl in our team"

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"God, I finally got rid of her but it's only temporary," Kenji thought as he walked to the car. He sat in the front seat closer to his friend, who turned on the rather quiet but energetic music. He decided to wake him up in an awkward way by honking the horn by pressing the steering wheel. Friend immediately jumped up and told him not to do that anymore, but the redhead just laughed out loud at his reaction. Dice asked his friend if he needed to go to work today, to which he received a negative response. Later, he continued that he had postponed his work shift and therefore he was not going anywhere today either. A couple of friends decided to drive around the city, drinking energy drinks instead of morning coffee. Weekend. You don't have to worry about a certain body anymore. Let these five months pass just as spontaneously.

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When Aura looked into the new girl's room in the evening, girl continued to sleep. Or maybe she was forbidden to do so? Maybe she was busy all the time, that she didn't want to wake up at all..We respect the new member of the team, let her sleep!

But in fact, Kasye Peach slept for a long time due to severe stress. That finally no one was touching her and it didn't matter where her body was, what they were going to do to her or what was going on around her. Reality brought so much pain that now dreams seem much brighter and more interesting than the rough reality. What happens in the head hurts much more, the fictional reality brings more emotions than the rudeness that physically exists around. And she dreamed that instead of suffering she could continue to collect flowers and study the metamorphosis of butterflies. Instead of wasting her time, she could unleash her talents. Instead of being rude at the beginning of the journey, she could work for a long time to get admiration for her back...

A loud bang sounded like a bell nearby, and all the dreams suddenly disappeared. "A certain girl with brown hair and a rather rude tone started shouting that my body had been sleeping for too long. I didn't care what was going on around me, looking at her clothes it were dirty yellow and decorated with lace. Her hands handed me a letter and her feet left the room in which I was alone. It was a new room, I had never been here before. After opening the letter, the information in it read: Welcome to the Church. Tonight, you will be invited as a new member of the society for viewing, so please do not arrive in a sleepy state this evening. "The church!?"— the main character of the drama having said this in her head, began to wind herself up, because she was in such a place for the first time. Is this a place of grief or a new place of violence!? The last words of that..who it turns out left me, saying that maybe this is a place where I will be comfortable, but it's impossible to expect something good from someone like him, therefore..I will have to continue my torment. A new team..again, but I'm already traumatized, and how am I supposed to make new decisions with broken beliefs?

All that day Kasye Peach sat on the bed hugging her knees out of sadness. There was still hope, a new team maybe people would be kinder, but the uncertainty of the fact that the girl did not know the future, didn't know what exactly she would be forced to do, and therefore suffered from the unknown. New clashes, but how the problems of the previous one weigh on you, the past from which having received a cruel experience, you now look at life in a different way. There is no more hope in this cruel world. I've changed here, I won't be happy anymore. But still, after a period, a new sentence or a new book almost always begins, well, and I put a paragraph. While asking a lot of questions, I won't be able to find answers, and the time is approaching evening.

Someone knocked on the room, and a guy in white clothes opened the door, looking at me anxiously. He looked rather shy and confused, and his skin was quite fair, which reminded me of the soft Lincoln I hadn't seen in a long time. He still left a good mark on me, the memories of him are as soft as his hair, as fluffy on his head, which he constantly cares for. With the one who met me, we continued walking. After leaving the hallway with the warm light of the lamps reflecting off the wooden panels, which were the color of warm brown and slightly yellowish resin, we left the room.

When he asked me to put on the hood, it felt too heavy and too long, so the way I tried to put it on somehow was comical. The guy didn't help me, even though he was worried from the outside his answer was brilliant: "I am the opposite gender, I cannot touch you." We were in a hurry and entered the tallest building with a large number of small details. Inside it smelled of candles and wax, wood, it was stuffy and people whispered if they wanted to say something. There are a lot of strange paintings around decorated with gold frames, a lot of candles in a wooden place and God forbid something will light up! People with their heads covered bend down with their palms joined. I was placed in a line with two guys on either side and listening to the melodious melody of singing women somewhere above. I liked to look at one during all this stuffy boredom, there was absolutely nothing to breathe in the room because of the heat of the candles and the number of people. The singer had short bright red hair that almost completely covered her face, and even if it was not completely visible, the severe pain on it was clearly easy to catch. They were burying me..long. Finally, everything was quiet, the deathly silence after the loud singing felt like punishment. A certain girl came in, whose appearance constantly inspired a sense of deja vu, I saw her while I was sleeping all the time recently. She began to read the monotonous strange text from the white sheets in her hands. I fell asleep standing up, because her voice was more melodious than the one who sang before. "..the path to temptation is a life—long job, admit your sins and promise to change your behavior..."

The guy who brought me here began to whisper to me, quite imperceptibly, "Answer: Lord, I repent of my sins." Whether I understood it correctly or not, I said his words out loud, to which he continued: "and I promise to strive to improve," and I repeated that too. The girl

continued again, and my image began to blur in front of my eyes. When she stopped, they whispered the sentence to me again, which I should have repeated aloud, but the dude on my left whispered it to me. "I swear to follow the ways of the Lord and avoid everything that separates me from Him." My body fell to my knees and breathing deeply, I just suffocated listening to certain commandments. Louder, the man standing to my left told me to repeat: "I promise not to give in to temptation and to live according to the commandments of God." That was the end of it, with a loud bell, the kind I'd heard in the morning. I must have fallen asleep and woken up already lying in bed with my legs bare, probably just the fabric rolled up to the top..I don't think that—

And the dream stopped because of a loud knock on the door and suddenly the one who lectured came to me, well the one to whom I answered. Seeing that I was awake, Aura bowed and sat on the bed, continuing to lecture me in her melodious clear voice:

Au-as I understand it you have already read the letter, I want to tell you personally about your arrival here, the rules and work schedule. This is really important to you, so please, Kasye Peach, listen. 

Kasye is really lazy. It was so hard for her to come to terms with a new unknown place that, sitting on the bed, half asleep, she began to rock back and forth, whiling away the time. When she heard her name, she tried to listen. 

Au-you are still pure, you are lucky to work only half the day. I want to ask, is it easier for you to work from early morning or from lunch to late at night?

Ks-early morning.

After answering this, her thoughts were filled with confusion as to why she needed to work and for whom, and why.

Au-Okay, tomorrow is your first trial day, so Christopher will wake you up a little later than usual. This bread and butter that saw you off today :) He will bring you, tell you and show everything you need. You will wake up early, at 5 a.m. exactly you will need to be on site approximately and start work, continuously finishing about half of the third day. You are very lucky to work only one half of the day and even have one day off. Someone works all day and sometimes doesn't even have a day off. I have personally written out your schedule in these pages. You have a church service only twice a week, meaning that you will need to stand in the church and pray, and it's not only to you. On your day off, you attend group psychology classes. The rules are written on the same sheets as the schedule, so please read them. For violating them, time will be added to your working hours. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask—

Ks-who are you and what is your name? 

Au-well, I told too much again and forgot to introduce myself! Call me Aura, I'm in charge here and I make reports for the work done and I work with the documents of those who were brought here, people like you. I follow the order in short. Good night, I only answer one question a day!

The girl left the room, the elf went to bed without reading the papers that were handed to her. Maybe tomorrow or sometime..then. Kasye was too lazy and sleepy to make out the text.