[PK] The Good Die Young

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With a lowered head Anna had knelt in prayer. With fervor she had prayed there, for her husband, for their children, for the others of their family, for GOD to continue to bless the land of Providence. With silent steps the intruder had entered, had crossed that threshold where she knelt. Her end was almost swift. The blade had found its place between her ribs, found its place within her lung. A short struggle, a toppling of her beloved books. The once painfully organized room left in disarray. 

 

My husband...

Our children..

GOD how could you let me leave them so soon…

 

With tears in her eyes she laid there, hands now soaked in her own blood, pressed against the scarlet laceration along her left side. Death did not greet the young Anna Katerina quickly, nor mercilessly. Tension Pneumothorax would be her end, air seeping into the open wound, cardiac arrest following within half the hour. Through the pain she pleaded with GOD silently and clung to life by a string, not wishing to leave her children as she had been left by her mother. By morning the devout mother of three’s soul would ascend to the Seven Skies.

 

Those who found her body there in the morning would find a singular clue. A piece of fabric, black and inconspicuous, held tightly within her left hand.

“From the murderer’s cloak, no doubt.”

 

Anna Katerina Carrion

1778 - 1802