Going to the Well

Multiverse of Destiny: Chapter 94

Gamilia sets the basket on her center table, where the Merchant laid the cursed stone bare a day ago. Her basket overflows with fresh onions, apples, pears, and seeds for her garden. She grabs a pitcher and wanders across the village to the well.

Her troubled reflections drift through her mind like the stench on Gehenna’s wind. The dialogue with her niece. The sleepless night. The vexing moment when the Merchant abandoned the stone. She had entered a different world since yesterday: one cluttered with clashing kingdoms, violent ghosts, and cursed jewelry.

Her thoughts bounce back and forth from reality to possibilities. Life is challenging. Daily, she wrestles with hunger, tense relations with neighbors, and battles with ghosts of her past. Continuing with this advanced threat is like acquiring a new language while living in another land with a foreign currency and different ways.

She’s a woman who quickly discerns the spiritual and the unseen. Yet what she encounters today is incomparable to anything she’s had to navigate in the mystical sphere. Ignoring and avoiding the problem wrapped in a dirty rag in one of her cabinets may seem the easiest way to handle emotions and trouble. But her challenges accumulate!

The village well comes into view. The circle of stone sets on the hilltop. Gamilia trudges up the hill to the block-lined lip of the community water hole and pulls up on the dangling rope. The well is deep. Unsettling thoughts continue to parry back and forth in her mind as she raises the bucket and empties the cool, clear water into her pitcher. She heads back down the hill at a robust and steady pace.

She is lost in these questions as she clicks open her front door. Her senses are attacked by a rancid stink. The calico cat dashes out the door. Wrinkling her nose and peering inside, the woman discovers a basketful of rotting fruits and vegetables on her table.

The stench of evil pervades the Kingdom of Scciachi like the putrid smell of this decomposing food.

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Story and art © Sunny Sorbet, 2022

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