Painted Pearls
Mr Xakatha waited at the altar alongside Pastor Magwaza, who looked positively gleeful to be delivering the ceremony.
Her feet moved slowly up the aisle, as if of their own accord, and Mr Xakatha’s even glance, dark and brilliant as smoldering embers, drew her ever forward. And though she was present, her mind had drifted elsewhere, clutching to the wings of the whistling Kestrel as it hovered over the Black Mountains; anywhere but the hateful present.
Pastor Magwaza began, gesticulating furiously, and grinned at her between phrases. He spoke in a perfect frenzy of high spirits, delivering what God had intended of him: the service of Holy Matrimony.
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