003. – Light

“Lady Chrissa, it is good to see you again.”

She looked to the source of the voice.

“And you, High Priestess Laurena. It has been too long since I have visited this grand cathedral.”

“What is it that brings you to us this day?”

“I have received news that I shall be heading to Light’s Hope Chapel very soon. From Leonid Barthalomew himself!”

“I wish you luck in your ventures, Lady Chrissa. The Scourge grows stronger by the day.”

“I thank you, High Priestess. I shall do my best to purge them from the land.”

The High Priestess nodded to Chrissa and walked past her. Her gaze then turned to watch her as she approached a small group of terrified-looking acolytes that had just entered the cathedral. They were all looking around, shuffling slowly forward with their robes dragging on the floor, obviously too long for their rather young owners. They couldn’t have been older than eleven or twelve.

Chrissa turned back to face the alter. Approaching the steps, she then kneeled before them, her hands locking themselves in prayer. She prayed that the long journey to Light’s Hope Chapel in the Plaguelands would be uneventful, and that if it wasn’t, that her companions and she would get there safely.

She could feel the Light filling her heart, and it was a wonderful, uplifting sensation. Noticing that the acolytes were watching her, she then lifted her tome from its heavy chain and let it fall open in her hands. Flipping through its pages and skimming quickly, she outstretched a gauntleted hand, muttered a single word, and immediately felt an electric tingling sensation shoot through her. Shutting the tome, and placing it back on its chain, she heard the ‘ohh’s and ‘ahh’s of the young acolytes and smiled. These were the next ones who would hold the Light, and feel it in their very souls.

She then called them forward, one by one, and blessed them.

“You are the future priests and priestesses, and knights of our beautiful city. Light guide you always, brothers and sisters.”

Then, she turned on her heel, and left.