The Forgotten - Chapter 44

  Lanex, the High Priest of the blood glorifying God Kalash, with the gold trim of his scarlet robes glittering in the candlelight, approached the sacrificial alter.  His heart was as dark as his ebony eyes and his soul was a thing of malevolence that glorified in blood and sacrifice.

“It is time.  Bring forth a Lamorie,” he called in a sonorous voice.

A Priestess scuttled away and retuned a few moments later with a beautiful young girl child with long dark hair and perfect features.  The child wore the thin sacrificial dress and had wide, luminously trusting brown eyes that sparkled with anticipation and devotion.  Lanex pointed to the blood stained alter.

Breathing heavily with excitement and smiling with delight, sh