The priest and nuns of the parish thankfully trusted Miriam's wisdom.
And why should they not? She was constantly on a one to one basis with the almighty.
She had to be.
She'd given birth to his enemy's pawn.
'NO! It's not true!' she screamed silently to herself.
Her child couldn't be the beast of the devil, he just couldn't be!
This shark creature, he was more of a beast than her deserted son, and had a heathen name, none the less!
Atlas....
ATLAS!!!
He had to be the REAL beast. His namesake implied it!
Atlas, who carried the heavens on his shoulders.. The heavens of heathen gods...
But what plagued her mind, was how?...
How had Ariel become pregnant with such a child? Was is the same force that had given Miriam her baby?
Could they both have become entangled in the will of the ocean?
It seemed logical enough, but Ariel wasn't afflicted with the same irrationalities and maddening that Miriam had suffered...
In fact, she was much stronger.
Bitch!
How could she be?! She had lost her child after only days, and she remained defiant and confident, even more so than her husband.
"If only my man had been as supportive, my child could have been properly loved," she softly said to herself, then frowned in reflection, "Charles...You bastard."
If she could see him again, she'd crush him. She'd break him.
Spanish inquisition style. She'd make him admit that he was wrong, that God loved their child, and that he was the father. No madness of the ocean had created her baby!
He was mad! He couldn't deal with being a father!
He was weak! Weak, pathetic men, creating ways to disprove God. They would learn...
They'll all learn!
'When my baby comes for me,' she said to herself, 'and destroys this monstrous Atlas!
When God comes for us all...
And destroys this monstrous world!
Then they'll all see!
Bastards!
Then they can look to their Atlas! Then they can have their evolution, and their theories,
and they can all rot in hell!'
Especially Charles!
But for now, she'd have to settle for finding out just how the parents were cursed with that infernal child.
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