Everything will be like it was before, Brezen whispered. You will leave this bad body and reincarnate into a new, beautiful one. No loss, only gain! You’ve learned from this life, and you will mount to a higher step of an existence in the next one! Brezen lied to her, motivated her to lift her fingers—one by one—from the window frame.
John and Kisha entered the room at that moment.
“Martha, what are you doing? No!” John shouted, and in one long leap, he reached the window.
Martha looked back at the last minute as she let go of the frame.
But John couldn’t catch her.
11.
“We’ve arrived at the second day of the papal election. Yesterday we saw the black smoke curling up from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, notifying us that they didn’t have the result yet,” said the reporter from a
