From the pages of the book "LA REINA OCULTA" by Jorge Molist.
I didn't want to say hello to the Jewess, but when I came across her she whispered in my ear:
"I already warned you." I told you that you were in mortal danger in Narbonne. ”I looked at her Her eyes and she locked hers feverishly on mine. She was holding my arm. You should have left when you still could, ”she added. Such a reception made me faint. My worst fears were confirmed, but Elie stopped me from stopping and when he took my arm and pulled me towards Berenguer, Sara let go of the other. And so I was presented to the archbishop. "Welcome, Lady Bruna," she smiled slightly. Today is a very important day and you are going to witness something unique; a ritual that only I and my acolytes are capable of practicing. You will be the protagonist and the purity of your blood will be put to the test. Then I realized that at one end of that small room, there was some tables with a cauldron that cooked over the fire. Its distillates were collected through various tubes and from these they passed to alembics and alchemist retorts. "What do you want from me?" I muttered. "Your blood." Elie was still holding me, but with a jolt I let go. My fears were confirmed and I knew that my only chance was to impose myself thanks to his own belief. "If you believe that I am the Lady Grail, that my blood is that of Christ, you must respect me." And obey me. Let me go right now! "I also have the blood of Christ and of kings in my veins." Remember that we are family members. Only your blood is much purer and I need it. "I order you to let me go!" "Get naked."
-That? "Either you undress willingly or you will do it by force." "You will not dare with the descendant of Christ." "Sara, Elie and yours, undress her," Berenguer ordered. So far I had been able to hide my fear, but then I felt terror. What did he want to do to me? They held me down and Sara took off my clothes until I was left with only a cloth that, subject to my hips barely covered my pubis. I couldn't help it, I started to shake. I They dragged them to the cross and I saw, at their feet, a hammer and some long iron nails. Was So when I struggled to let go I could not. I realized they were pretending crucify me and that no one would help me. I was terrified. The cross was fastened to the pavement by a slot that it fit perfectly.
They removed it from its base and laid it on the I usually. They tied me to her. It had a support and there they put my feet. They grabbed my arms and They secured my waist with a rope. I closed my eyes when I saw Elie pick up the nails and the hammer. "Not the keys yet," Berenguer ordered. I felt relief, albeit momentary, because it started moving and I noticed that they raised the cross. I tied to her. They placed her upright again in her slot. The stay small, like her symmetrical on the other side, towered above the floor of the larger, but without reaching its ceiling and, although the cross did not stand out excessively, when I opened my eyes I contemplated the general overview. The stone army in formation, with one of the most forward, the group of Sara, Elie and the soldiers, the retorts spouting fumes and the bearded men, wearing bonnets, standing at the sides of the altar. At that time they began to sing an incomprehensible chant, which was neither Occitan nor Latin.
At one point, Berenguer took the chalice, drew a dagger from his belt and,
approaching me, he cut me in the veins of the right wrist that my bonds left
discovered. Immediately the blood began to gush out abundantly and he collected it with
chalice. When he had enough, he made a sign for Sara to come with a bandage to
stop the bleeding. I felt faint, more from anguish than from pain. What did
that man?
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I couldn't believe my eyes. Berenguer was giving life to the statue!
I had not felt so much terror even when I saw the nails and the hammer at the foot of the cross. Satan
was hiding behind that! And I was the victim. I no longer feared for my life, but for myself
soul. Would she go to heaven being sacrificed in that coven? I prayed and prayed without the shaking
leave. Tears were running down my cheeks as a trickle of blood
It kept coming down from the wound down my arm. What was that necromancer doing with my
blood? I did not want to be part of that, I did not want the content of my veins to give life
the monster, and I wondered if it was true that I was a special being. I prayed again
so that what was going to happen would not happen. But it happened.