So Answer I Will

A story of forbidden love between brothers, like pulling a blade from a wound.

🖤 Word count: 2,741

🃏 Three of Swords — heartbreak, separation, loss, grief, trauma, sorrow

“Rain tapped insistently on the stained glass high above Luke's head. The cavernous sanctuary at his back was empty and had been for hours now, the walls soaked in eerie silence. The lack of power had plunged the city around him into darkness, and only the flickering glow of the candles and the emergency streetlights outside kept that dark from feeling oppressive, vicious in how absolute it was."

This piece is part of an ongoing Tarot-inspired story project.  

Each card lights a new lantern. Each lantern is free to carry.  

When the suits are complete, they’ll be gathered into digital collections.

If this story lit something in you, tips and shares help me keep lighting lanterns.