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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

strange iron arm-chair, chained to it...

My heart sank... and stopped beating. How on Earth could I allow such thing to
happen?! But my fevered brain firmly answered – you could!!! You had no choice.
Anna looked in my eyes, not frightened or begging. This girl showed much more
courage than I had at that moment.

– Don’t give up! Please, just don’t give up, mother! – I heard.
Anna talked to me mentally, trying to support me. Knowing how much I love her,
she was afraid that I would break. She was afraid that Caraffa would get that for which
he had craved so badly. And then everything we had to go through would be in vain.
– Just like you, your daughter is so bellicose, Madonna. I had to replace eight
executioners to tie her! We had to make her drink a poppy decoction to put her to
sleep... Have some mercy on her, Isidora!

A corpulent executioner in a leather apron prepared some frightful instruments…
no doubt to torture my beloved daughter... My dear and light girl…
My heart froze. It seemed that the world was converted into an endless solid pain.
No longer feeling anything, I simply stopped breathing.

– Wake up, Madonna! What’s wrong with you? Wake up!
Anxious Caraffa held a bottle of strong-smelling salts, bringing it to my nostrils
from time to time, so willy-nilly I had to breathe the stale basement air. I felt like a wax
doll. It was not good at all. Caraffa perfectly understood that he finally found that with
the help of which he, probably, could break me. And, naturally, it was Anna who had
to pay for it...
– Do you really hope that on living long, you will succeed in mowing down and
clearing out all gifted ones? – I whispered on regaining consciousness. – It’s madness,
Holiness! People will always be born ... and the gifted will be born too. You will never
succeed in destroying them all! Think better of it, while it is not too late. You have a
brilliant mind, why do you use it for destruction?

Caraffa thoughtfully picked at a heavy gold cross hanging on his papal chest. It
seemed that he had gone far away from the usual world into some unknown expanses...
Regrettably, he was never absent for long...
– As I already told you before, Isidora, most people are stupid. Look around.
There is a lot of of cowards and idlers who will give everything only to remain aside
feeling safe and protected! They believe that they live in faith and truth, spending whole
days in idleness and enjoying the happiness of their stupid personal small world. They
hide behind the backs of the brave and strong who they use and then destroy. One
doesn’t require a brilliant mind to do mean things, Isidora... – his "Holiness" gave a
wry smile, went silent for a second and then added:

– But regrettably, there is another kind of people. Those who always stand ahead
and their life becomes a light that points the way to others. They are incredibly
dangerous! They don’t think like others wish them to. They carry their damned light
regardless of any danger without sparing their lives. You are one of them, Isidora, just
like your sweet daughter Anna. That is why, to be perfectly honest, I will never let you
go, even if you give me what I ask... You will stay here and be a queen, if you submit to

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