Water of Life

Liera's fingers grazed the forty-first column of scrolls, the ones sorted by the word "world".  A fragment of each glowed in the air for only a slice of second as she slid downward, the moment more than long enough for Liera to reject each scroll in search of the right one.

She knew all the prophesies by heart.  She'd puzzled and studied and yearned to know, beyond everything else, the person of whom they spoke.

He sounded like such a kind person.

According to the scrolls, he healed people from hideous, flesh decaying diseases that made her quail to read of, fed those without food or hope, offered them Water of Life.

A tiny vial of Water of Life was worth her family's entire estate, worth double this library, and he was giving it away for free.  If she'd found him a month ago, she could have asked for some for her sister.  If she found him now, she could ask him to feed her parents, whose mouths hung at the edges where they used to lift.

If she found him soon, she could tell him he didn't have to be lonely the night he died.

A flash of blue caught her eye in the shape of the word "cruel."  That was the one, the oddball out of the mix.  The one scroll she'd believed written by a madman, like her parents said.

"One world is cruel enough to kill their Creator.  Therefore, be grateful for life in faith, for by its light, ye are truly blessed."

She dropped her fingers and the scroll blackened.  The horrendous idea of killing aside, it spoke of one world, as though there were several.  How on Gracia would she find him if he lived on another planet?

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The prompt this week was "Something or someone celebrating light, or seeking light."  I'm a Christian--a Mormon, and somewhere in our doctrine is talk of other worlds that Christ created besides our own.  The idea of Christ's atonement being infinite and enough to cover all of his worlds tickles me, and I wondered how a young girl searching for answers on another world might see his life.

Have the most WONDERFUL holiday season!  I'll be out next week for Christmas, but look for a story the following Friday :).