"I was about to tell Owen and Sarah of a vision I had last night," said Revenant. "I wonder seriously if it was, in fact, not another vision but real."
Before I could fill a glass with wine, before I could fill a plate with cheese and a slice of bread with garlic and parsley, I had to ascertain how the hell Fr. Revenant came to be sitting in my living room, before I could tell Owen and Sarah how I met the priest, before the chance that Owen would have to explain to me how he met him.
"Just be quiet and eat, will you?" Owen said to me, tossing more shells at the fireplace.
According to Fr. Revenant, as he had passed the door to his spare bedroom, he'd heard an unrecognizable thump on the stairs leading to the first floor. He hurried to the top of the stairwell and followed the diminishing traces of a radiant, blinding light moving from the living room and into the kitchen.
"'Who are you? What are you doing here?' I heard the voice say," related Revenant in an excited voice. "The light moved like a thief would, you know, from one point to another. Then it stopped. I ran down the stairs, spilling my brandy. I cursed and then I followed the light wherever it went. It left the kitchen and opened the cellar door and stayed just inside the staircase, waiting for me."
[Top photo courtesy of Chasing Light music band.]
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