The Diary of Niketas - 4

The pages of this text are nearly illegible and missing a date, but some of the sharp, aggressive scrawl can be read.

“... Watching him weep and renounce his faith, I saw the failing of all flesh, the evil of its fetters, forged by the Enemy in the far past. I glimpsed the release that we seek, and knew in that instant I was being called. Beyond the flesh, a faint light in the darkness. A Paradise that beckons. And as he spoke further of his falling, this wretch revealed another truth when he told me of the gifts he carried, which he could now neither return to his Order nor rid himself of. The artefact that so terrified him, that planted the seed of his unravelling, would be the very key to Paradise. I felt no shame when I tracked him outside, and relieved him of his burden and a few further trinkets. His purpose was achieved. He was freed.”