Sister Efner- Falling Into Darkness Because Of ... [2027]

"Why does He hide?" she whispered to Mother Superior one evening.

The darkness arrived not as a demon, but as a six-year-old girl with flaxen hair and a fractured humerus. Her name was Linnea. Sister Efner- falling into Darkness because of ...

With Brother Thomas gone, the codex became her only companion. Its verses promised that “the night is not the absence of God, but the presence of Him in a form we cannot yet comprehend.” The more she read, the more she felt the convent’s bright, orderly world recede—replaced by a realm where shadows were alive, breathing, and whispering truths that the daylight had never allowed her to hear. "Why does He hide