Paloma (from 'Light and Dark') - Sex Stories

Paloma (from 'Light and Dark')

... sleep, with no inkling of the presence of her mother beside her. The following morning Magdalena’s mother confronted her, asking who Sofia was. In a state of initial shock, Magdalena told her mother about Sofia’s visitations. Beside herself with worry, and not knowing what to do, Magdalena’s mother sought the assistance of the local priest. By this time, far from feeling fearful, Magdalena told the priest everything relating to her visions of Sofia. She told him that Sofia said that she had been sent by the mother spirit to release her, Magdalena, from the bondage of lies and deception, and also that Sofia had seduced and ravished her many times in the previous weeks. The priest immediately suspected demonic possession and, wishing to try to deal with the problem without ‘higher’ intervention from the religious authorities, who were then engaged in serious persecution of heretics and witches, for the sake of the young woman’s mother he attempted to perform an exorcism upon her. However, even after this Magdalena insisted that Sofia was still visiting her, and had told her that she was to tell the priest that a time would come when the dove would cross with the sword, and the people of Puente de Almas would begin to embrace a new and freer spirit. The priest then conceded that he was unable to exorcise whatever ‘dark and malevolent spirit’, as he termed it, was possessing Magdalena and reluctantly handed her over to the Inquisition who, after questioning and torturing her ...

... for some time, then decided on an auto-da-fé . One morning in late April, she was taken to the town square where she was tied unceremoniously to a rough stake and the firewood under her lit, ‘in the name of all righteousness’. As the flames began to gather their crackling menace around her legs, almost tasting the warmth of her skin, witnesses to the scene then watched in horror as Magdalena’s body suddenly, somehow, became translucent. She smiled at the onlookers to her fate and then, almost instantaneously, her body became transformed into a wide, twirling velvet ribbon of lime green smoke which swirled and twisted from the stake to which she had been bound. The ropes that had held her hands behind her fell into the flames and were devoured by them. Those gathered to witness ‘God’s vengeance’ and righteous punishment being dispensed watched in a fearful disbelief. Many began crossing themselves frantically, or clasped their hands together, wringing them like damp rags, whilst muttering impromptu supplications to the Blessed Virgin, as they watched the dancing plume of smoke that was once a young girl dance and wind its way into the thin, cool mist waiting patiently on the nearby mountainside. Part Three: Paloma With possibly enough money on offer to make him comfortable for life, Dr Kardos considered where he might go in order to both fulfil the baron’s desire that he ‘disappear’ from Austria permanently, and his own desire to further the work which was his passion. Quite by ...