Strixes

Interlude Catherine

The moon was bright tonight. Catherine hummed as she stared up at the white orb in the sky. When she was human, she used to stare at it, listening to her father's stories about God. She used to believe it hung in the sky because of God's grace.

After she was transformed into a monster that would forever be barred from God's heaven, she cursed the moon. It no longer appeared as a sign of God's endless mercy, but as something to mock her by. The most abhorrent, evil sinner could find redemption and forgiveness in heven, but Catherine d'Arc would be sentenced to an eternity of damnation because of what that devil did to her.. No amount of living a good, honest life would save her now.

God declared that she was a monster. A demon summoned from the deepest pits of hell. So be it. If she was cursed to never set foot in heaven, she would become the monster that God wanted her to be. She had cut a bloody path through history, feeding and killing whoever she wanted.

That was her father speakin