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And so it begins!

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Chapter one
Teresa woke up from her night’s slumber.
She idly wondered what had waken her up.
Being a nun of the order of Saint Michael The Great, sleep was very important to her: in the middle of the night, every night, it was her duty to wake up with the other nuns of the order to the sound of the bell and pray, so that they may atone for the sins of a world that was too often unjust.
What had woken her up, however, was not the sound of a bell, it was more like a muffled thud, not very loud, but loud enough to startle someone…or to wake up a sleepy nun.
Being the middle of the night, however, her cell was pitch black, except for the slim ray of moonlight coming from in between the bars of her window.
She got up from her (very uncomfortable, if I may say so) bed, which was made of dried straw covered with a rough sheet, and started looking around the cell.
There wasn’t much to see, however; the order of Saint Michael The Great was based on austerity, and aside from her bed and a crucifix on the wall in front of her there wasn’t anything else in the small, unadorned room.
Wait.
Under the crucifix, just barely visible in the limelight, there was a dark shape, which Teresa couldn’t make out.
Her heart started immediately beating a LOT faster.
This changed everything.
Outside people were not allowed in the nunnery, and if she were surprised with someone else in her room she would surely be expelled, since her reputation in the order was already so low.
She moved closer to the dark mass, trying to see better, and to her huge consternation found out that it was not a man, as she had imagined, but a far different thing.
In retrospect, this probably explained how it had managed to go through the door (or through the barred window) without waking up.
Because you see, the dark mass was not a man, or even a dog or a cow. As a matter of fact, it didn’t even belong in this universe.
The shape was that of a demon.

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