Sister Efner- Falling Into Darkness: Because Of ...

It began in the autumn of her sixty-first year. Sister Efner had always spoken to God as one speaks to a beloved friend—in the quiet hours of Lauds, while scrubbing the refectory floor, or kneeling before the tabernacle. She received His answers in the rustle of wind through the chapel oaks, in the unexpected kindness of a younger nun, in the deep, cellular peace that followed the Eucharist.

It started with small, seemingly insignificant events. A whispered rumor about a fellow sister, a minor disagreement with the convent's leader, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the strict rules and traditions that had once brought her comfort. At first, Sister Efner dismissed these feelings as mere frustration, but as they persisted, she began to feel an unsettling sense of disconnection from the world around her. Sister Efner- falling into Darkness because of ...

In the vacuum of her grief, the darkness found an opening. It did not arrive as a monster, but as a promise—the promise that death was not an end, and that the laws of the Light were merely shackles preventing the powerful from truly saving those they loved. Driven by the desperate hope of resurrection, Efner began to experiment with the very necrotic energies that had claimed Kaelen. She believed she could master the shadow to serve the light, a fallacy that has claimed many before her. It began in the autumn of her sixty-first year

The once-devoted sister began to withdraw from her church community, becoming increasingly isolated and withdrawn. Her relationships with friends and family deteriorated, and she started to question her own sanity. The manipulator had successfully pushed Sister Efner into a dark and lonely place, where she was vulnerable to further exploitation. It started with small, seemingly insignificant events