****Chapter 3: Collusion****
Whiff the candle they lit, this shall douse the fires in your heart,
eating your greens and dissolving your skin…
And empty the buckets they filled for you, you will live longer…
Elude their illusions, elude their chains, and always, trust your guts.
Pamela sneaked into Humbert’s dungeon to free him and run away, disguised as a nun… but as soon as he was freed, holding the laptop she gave him tightly in his arms, the guards recognized Pamela’s face, and headed to her room to confirm… it was locked, which is unusual especially in the absence of Mikal, who also ordered the guards to frequently check on her, they broke into the room and found the two guards soaked in blood. Everyone started panicking and a loop of warning from supervisors to butlers, they searched every corner and inch of the monastery, coincidentally finding that Humbert’s dungeon is also open and he is not there, they tried to call Mikal but he wasn’t responding, allegedly preaching in the congregation.
Meanwhile the girls in the orphanage were already planning to revolt against the corruption and arbitrary committed by the religious representatives,
Ohud, the 10 year old guardian angel of Pamela and Humbert, was a soldier of plenty, who were awaiting such a moment of rebellion, they all were planning this for long, learning the place of each object including Mikal’s laptop, each secret told and kept, were no longer secrets, not only because they’re good searchers and wanderers, but also because they’re the ones who narrate stories, they’re part of it, and they’re all witnesses. The girls went in masses and entered the monastery, climbing each bending and straight back, beating heads, biting necks, and letting out the anger they repressed for years, some of them nuns ironically forgot their suffer and followed the path of monastic order, holding whips and wooden branches, and aiming them at anyone crossing their ways, telling them how ugly they are and how God rejects each one of them! Ohud kept looking for Pamela, but she didn’t find her in her room, she went outside and Humbert was desperate, sitting behind an old tree and crying as he was holding the laptop, but Pamela wasn’t around…
“Where is Pamela?” Ohud asked in fear,
and Humbert just confirmed that they took her again and she asked him to hide before they reached them, he was whimpering, clueless, and drowning in fright of what might happen to his wife in the future, his status doesn’t even concern him anymore.
Ohud approached him and patted his shoulder and told him to wait in the hut, she pointed her little index finger where he should head and she told him that they know someone who can help.
He decided to listen since he already ran out of ideas, as well as the faith and hope that once possessed his heart, he was waiting desperately for someone to come and solve this as soon as possible…
Few minutes passed after the chaos that turned the tyrants utopia drastically to a dystopia, and Mikal already responded to his phone, learning the events taking place in the orphanage and monastery, he still wasn’t informed that his laptop was taken. He interrupted the church’s ceremony and asked another priest to replace him, went to his car, and the first thing he did was checking if his kept gun was loaded, and indeed it was.
He drove his car instantly heading to the place where it might his grave, and the reborn of many awaiting their liberation. At that moment, Ohud talked to one of the orphans whose boyfriend is a handyman working in the orphanage, she asked her to send him to help Humbert logging into the laptop, and the girl didn’t take long to do so… But they all failed to go near Mikal’s office and room that were severely guarded this time, Pamela was sedated and tied on Mikal’s bed as he ordered it to be. They were still handling cleaning the room from blood and shattered glass and decorative pots, the blood stains on the rug and wall had already lingered, only the ones on the walls that were possibly and relatively wiped, leaving faint red color that represents an evidence of tied resulted dispute, neither the guards won, nor Pamela that had a glimpse of hope that this all might sooner end. Little did she know that this will separate her from Humbert more than before.
Mikal took time to arrive although he was driving fast, the girls were still fighting, but he couldn’t care less, he was ignoring all the faces around him and only walking directly into his office, to find out that what he was scared of happened, his laptop isn’t there, he threw all his belongings and furniture on the floor in a tantrum, then headed immediately to his room; where they kept Pamela. The guards cleared the way for him and he entered the bedroom, noticing the fresh bruises on Pamela’s body, he asked the guards to reveal themselves regarding beating her, and one of them did… Mikal didn’t hesitate to pull his gun and shoot that person in his head, asking everyone to leave, “Only I judge and act in the name of God, not a single parasite of you should do as such”, he said, grabbing a chair towards the bed, holding a bucket of ice water to pour all of it on Pamela. The latter woke up shaking and gasping, surrendering to her faith.
He asked her where the laptop was, she denied her knowledge about it, he asked again as he was running out of patience, she stayed silent, he shot her leg and grabbed her hair, “You better tell me where it is, because, not only the next bullet will resign in your faithless filthy heart, but also in your husband’s, see! Guess staying locked here and privileged was way better than this path you chose!” he said, but she started panicking and responded, “I really don’t know, maybe one of the people here took it, my priority was my husband”, he didn’t even waste more time with her, he tried to locate where his laptop was but the signal was very bad, thus, he decided to keep moving around until he finds signal. Pamela was left bleeding and crying behind.
Some of the guards started shooting the girls as they totally lost control over their numbers that spread across the area, and Daniel tried to follow Mikal as he was rushing out checking his phone’s screen desperately looking for a signal, Mikal pointed the gun at him in both anger and distrust, and asked him to back off and withdraw from his business. But on another hand, in the middle of this massacre, both Humbert and the handyman manage to unlock the laptop and copy many data to a pin drive, leaving some behind to win time, they left the hut and Daniel already was told to go there instead by Ohud to meet with Mikal, he didn’t doubt her credibility, he thought that Mikal might actually open up and apologize at the same time, but Ohud did what the girls told her to do, to win time by letting them fight while liberating as many girls as possible, some of them successfully seized many keys, but not all of them processed to know what each key is used for, others were sadly injured or dead. They noticed that Mikal’s room had no guards finally… They approached, entered and helped Pamela walk away with them, quickly in spite of her limping leg.
Mikal finally gets signal, he could track where his laptop was, and when he arrives there, he finds Daniel taking a look into the files of his laptop,
“I’ve always known that this place is infiltrated with serpents, so, Daniel, did you find what you saw interesting?” Mikal said as he was slowly closing his laptop,
but Daniel didn’t look surprised, although he was a corrupt but he was kept away from this, knowing intuitively that Mikal is a sex trafficker and a rapist due to the witnesses and Mikal’s repetitive and long visits to the girls, letting alone the rich entities including politicians who used to visit the place and stay longer in the orphanage pretending to run charity campaigns. “You don’t look surprised, do you?” Mikal followed, and held his gun higher, Daniel broke his silence and responded,
“you’re right, I’m not, guess staying with the girls overnight was a good and enough indicator of what matches the files on your laptop than you pretending to help them pray. But I always prayed for you and I deeply wished that each girl who asked for help was just deluded, I was deluded by your light, your fake wisdom and fake friendly face.”
“Oh, you won’t play the saint role right now, Dany! As if there is no evidences on the same device you were looking into of you yourself money-laundering and distributing narcotics on patients who needed real medications, but you fooled them into your deal and told them that doctors are con-artists.” Mikal regained his confidence afterwards and asked Daniel to take off his clothes to make sure he didn’t keep copies of anything in his pockets.
Daniel laughed and rejected, “I’m not one of your girls, or are you into men too?” he said,
Mikal pulled the trigger and shot him, then he started searching his clothes, but nothing was there.
Pamela was escorted to the handyman’s car, that was occupied by both the handyman
“Sean”, and Humbert, who hugged Pamela in tears and wrapped a cloth on her shot leg in a better way than the girls did, then the girls started following each other like beads falling of a necklace one by one, leaving the monastery and orphanage behind and running towards the woods, lake, the cars of the priests, Sean drove his car to the nearest hospital, and Mikal came back to the monastery, looking around to find girls running away, nuns fainted, priests killed and other orphans of different ages killed and injured, he went to his room to find that the only thing that was left of Pamela, was her blood on his bedsheet. He then started shooting everyone crossing his road, no matter how obedient they were ever to him. One of them injured priests told him that he saw the laptop in Pamela’s hand before, “it’s good that you took it back from her”, he was still trying to be the usual bootlicker, hoping that his injury gets cured and that he gets closer to Mikal, but Mikal shot him in the head as he (the injured) was extending his hand as a gesture of needing help. The same exact priest who was everyone’s idol was exposed in his real form, a slave and a servant, precisely, but not of God, instead, of Satan. He wanted to farm everyone’s faith and dedicate it as his success in mundane life, but little did he know that people around him didn’t always, purposely, or genuinely smile at him.
His life collapsed before his eyes, Pamela and Humbert escaped with evidence, he doesn’t know where they’re, his religious industry and concepts are turning into lies, he went to the kitchen, aimed his gun at the gas cylinders and, boom!
Pamela was taken successfully to the hospital, and they found evidences of sexual assault, narcotics in her blood and physical abuse beside the leg shot, they summoned the police there and wrote them a full report, and Humbert gave them the pin drive, looking in guilt at the girls who were looking back it him in pride and gratitude, Humbert felt good rescuing them, but at the same time he was feeling bad him and his wife had to encounter all that, and worse, him not being able to help his wife escaping the claws of a monster like Mikal.
The police reached the monastery and found the entire place on fire, they sent people to extinguish it and they started searching the place and finding corpses everywhere, and they found the laptop in the kitchen alongside many other bodies who severely got disfigured, they started lifting them up the floor and the media has already heard earlier of the riot by some of the visitors who usually went to donate in the orphanage, so, they tried to cover the riot, but they will cover an entire disaster that was given as a price of liberation.
The politicians mentioned and existing on Mikal’s laptop later were all theoretically listed on streaming channels on both TV and social media, which resulted in an earthquake in their offices, households, clubs and platforms, destroying their success percentages in the campaigns, especially with witnesses being interviewed, but as long as the system still has corruption, truth can always be intertwined, unclear and sometimes turned entirely and unjustly into a lie. Some of the authorities gave calls to the police station and they promised promotions and good rewards for those who can destroy the evidences and shift the opinion of the media and the public. And as reality sometimes is complicated and full of bittersweet endings, that usually combine a nearly happy ending with a dissatisfaction and tyranny, this story also finished in such form, exhibiting layers of different feelings, disgust, tyranny, hope, despair, power, fragility, faith and disbelief, as well as showing a sense of reality, that might be viewed in contrast of the following conclusion, or aligning with it…
Both Pamela and Humbert were faithless regarding embracing any religion, but they believed in each other, some will think, they won and they will live their best life as heroes, but they both lost a lot to this battle, and some who will go against this conclusion will say they lost entirely and none of the girls actually got the ending they deserved, as none was held accountable for what they did to them, some were killed and some who were impune due to their social and financial power will live long and whitewash themselves in no time. Portray it as you want, that’s the beauty of life, and art, you can see it the way you desire.
Germany,**** 2 years later****, a teacher comes in to introduce himself to the class, the girls start laughing and making noises thinking how handsome is their new teacher, he says, “I’m Matteo, your new English teacher, and I hope we all enjoy our educational journey this year”, and everyone starts clapping, he gives them his back, smiles, and writes on the board, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
Then he turns to his students and ask in Dutch, “Who can translate this phrase for me?”
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