The Girl in the Wych Elm (XIV)
XIV. Dreams of Immortality Viewed Through a Dark Lens (I) Author's Note: Before you begin reading, I want everyone to know that chapter 14 will be split into three separate parts because of the length. It's over 30 pages in Microsoft Word. It's kind of ironic. Lucia has been the only character that I've struggled with as far as her depth and role in the story. Yet, she ended up being the only character (so far) with the longest chapter and most depth. I apologize for the long release. It's been a struggle finding the motivation to write the last few months. During a cultural anthropology seminar she attended during her lowerclassman years, Lucia was lectured on cultures who shunned the use of cameras and mirrors. They believed objects as such possessed the unholy ability to steal a part of their soul or even their likeness. Their superstitions were regarded as primitive thinking by the teenaged Lucia and hadn’t changed in the two decades since then. Lucia...