Good-bye My Lady - Part VI

I thought that getting this secret out in the open would make the Lady better but it was to no avail. She grew more feble every day so one night I stayed awake all night to watch her as she slept. She was so frail I did not know if she would awaken the next morning.

I was about to dose off in my chair when in the small hours of the morning I noticed something in the upper level of the estate. It was a strange luminescent cloud glowing in the darkness in the Lady’s old bedroom. I had never seen anything like it nor had I ever herd of any such vision. I watched the cloud descended the stairs and settle upon the Lady. At that moment the Lady began to struggle for breath. In that instant I knew it was a spiritual entity so I jumped up grabbed the Holy Scripture at the corner of the Ladie's bed and rebuked the evil spirit in the name of the son of God. The vapor dissipated and the Lady recovered her breath.

As I awoke the Lady I inquired as to what had happened. All she could say was that she had the strange sensation that something was pressing the breath out of her.

Knowing that what I had seen was not a dream I started to inquire with the clergy at the cathedral. At first I thought that they would think I was mad but they listened to me intently. They knew of a dark secret of the estate. That it had once belonged to a pagan priest that the Lady’s grandmother and to a lesser extent her mother had entertained while delving into the pagan arts. While at the estate earlier the clergy had felt the presence of a malevolent entity. That is why they entreated me to relocate the Lady for it couldn’t be of her benefit to be near such a creature.

I was referred to a particular lady of the realm who had been a princess of the pagan arts but had been converted to the Christian arts and was skilled in spiritual warfare. Andromeda was her name and she lived in a neighboring village.

Andromeda was summoned and arrived late one afternoon. As she was led through the estate she stopped at the entrance to the Lady’s old bedroom. Entering the doorway she immediately turned and bolted down the stairway to the great hall where she collapsed in a chair. Running after her I inquired: “What did you see?” She said: “I saw nothing with my eyes but what I saw with my spirit was big, evil, and very old.”

Andromeda explained that the entity has lived in that room for a very long time and was looking for it’s next servant from the Lady’s linage. The Lady being of the right linage but not being acceptable due to her true Christian salvation angered the entity. It determined the Lady must be destroyed because she was useless to it.

Upon hearing of the demise of the Lady’s brother, mother, and the eccentric behavior of the Duke; Andromeda explained: “Lady; your mother blamed God for taking her favorite son instead of you so she turned against God. Then she turned you over to this entity. Since you are not suitable to serve the entity it wishes to destroy you and your linage so it can be free to persue other mortals. The things you found in the estate were planted for you to find by your mother. Your emotions awakened the entity to your presence. The Duke could not disturb this trap set by your mother because the entity would not let him. Like you the Duke could not recline and rest or the entity would try and push the breath out of him for he was also unsuitable as its servant. That is why the Duke always slept in a chair. The entity lives somewhere in that room in an old object made out of a living thing. Remove Lady from the estate and I will clean the estate and locate to hiding spot of the entity.”

Lady was removed from the estate and Andromeda and I cleansed ourselves, blessed our path, and used holy oil to cleanse the estate and a particularly strong aromatic mixture to locate the entity. As we moved through the estate we closed in on the Lady’s old bedroom. Essentially we began pushing the entity back into its home so it could be captured and destroyed. Slowly we advanced through each room. Nearing the doorway of the Lady's old bedroom the aroma of the mixture got so intense as to almost choke us. As we passed through the doorway into the room the aroma dissipated. Aproaching the doorway again the smell once again became intense. Andromeda said: “The door!! It is in the door!!” We covered the door in holy oil to seal in the beast then removed the door and took it outside the estate.

Andromeda further sealed the door arranged to have it taken to a safe place where the entity could not harm the Lady or any other mortals. Lady was moved back into the estate and was never again tormented in her sleep.

As the entity was removed from the property I could only imagine the entity saying: “Good-bye-My Lady for a time but I shall return.”