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The Mechanist Computer Company connects the brains of two people to the Septraveck, which is a mystical musical instrument that God’s musicians used to sing the perfect universe into existence before humans tarnished perfection with their sins and converted the universe from a perfect song into a struggling, unbalanced equation.
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“The Sound of Sin”
Society had always dismissed Irene Elizabeth Duvalier as the hopeless child and the
“wasted life” who had been encumbered by blindness since birth. When Irene reached the age of
twenty-two, she abandoned the Home for the Blind that had supported her for two decades.
During the afternoon on July 23, 2014, she clasped her fingers around her walking cane and
positioned it on the sidewalk that would guide her through the bustling streets of Richmond,
Virginia. Irene always had identified the individuals in her surroundings by carefully listening to
their voices. She focused on the various voice pitches that she had encountered as she wandered
through her life of darkness. Her hand rested on the cane that she had propelled into the concrete
sidewalk, and her sense of touch was stimulated by the glistening sunlight that soaked into her
pale skin. Crowds of Richmond residents brushed against Irene as she balanced herself on the
cane. The voices of the residents blended together inside Irene’s ears until they faded into her
memory. When the residents who collided into Irene recognized that she was wearing
sunglasses and that she was carrying a walking cane, they concluded that she was blind before
they sauntered away from the sidewalk and scattered across the concrete streets. Irene always
had refused to accept the aid of a Seeing Eye dog during her struggle against the darkness. As
she listened for any recognizable voices among the crowds, she condemned the possibility that
she was excessively stubborn. She lifted her head to align her shifting eyes with the sky until she
was roused from the daydreams that ignited her dazed stupor. Irene leaned against her walking
cane and yearned for the dark fog that clouded her vision to dissipate. The mysterious Stephen
Koldewey interlocked his fingers across Irene’s left shoulder and whispered into her ear with the
eternally sinister voice that had haunted her since her childhood arrival at the Home for the
Blind.
Upon seeing that Irene had been alerted to his presence, Koldewey whispered, “Please,
Irene, let me help you. Let me treat you. I know where you are going. I know that you want to
see Jonker’s face.”
Because Stephen Koldewey had taught Irene how to read Braille, Irene felt compelled to
provide Koldewey with the proper respect, but his knowledge of her personal affairs was
unsettling. Laurence David Jonker was a college student whom Irene had first met on a bus
when she was eighteen years old. Irene became convinced that Laurence represented the only
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individual who viewed her as a human being and not simply as a helpless victim of blindness.
Koldewey placed a CD in Irene’s hand and instructed her to call if she experienced any
difficulties during the treatment. Irene clasped the CD and crossed the street to reach the bus that
would lead away from Koldewey and to Laurence’s home, and after claiming a seat on the bus,
Irene recalled Koldewey’s peculiar behavior. Koldewey monitored his daily sins, and as a child,
Irene was constantly awakened by Koldewey’s screams when he scolded himself for the sins that
he had committed. As Koldewey feverishly slashed his marker along the plaster wall, he was
mesmerized by the blaring music that echoed into each room. Several incoherent chants
participated with the music to cause agonizing shivers that pierced Irene’s back. Koldewey
assigned a different geometric shape to each of the seven deadly sins, and after he identified his
specific sin, Koldewey would sketch a geometric shape on the wall that acknowledged his
transgression. Irene’s blindness prevented her from observing the geometric shapes that
recognized Koldewey’s sinful actions of sloth and lust. Koldewey screamed to express his
torment as he etched the geometric shapes on the wall. Although Irene never could physically
see the geometric designs, she would glide her fingers across the wall plaster on which the
shapes were drawn. Her perceptive sense of touch informed her that these complex sketches
were composed of several lines and shapes. According to Koldewey, the balance of the universe
was disrupted by human sin, and the geometric shapes that he had designed would eliminate the
instability that his sins had generated. Irene clasped the CD in her hand as the vigorous rumble
of an engine and the blending clamor of human voices indicated that the bus had reached its
designated stop. Irene hoped to escape from Koldewey and to reinvigorate her friendship with
Laurence. Unfortunately, the CD that she possessed contained the experimental treatment with
which the insane Koldewey promised to eradicate the blindness of his students.
Human sin tarnished the perfection that once existed by unleashing agonizing sicknesses
and the blindness with which Irene was struggling. Koldewey vigorously insisted that his
experimental treatment could cure Irene’s blindness by erasing the human sin that originally
triggered her miserable condition of blindness. Although human sin had seized Irene’s sight,
flashes of Laurence Jonker’s potential physical appearance danced across the energized canvas
of her mind. She remained alone inside the confines of her imagination as she envisioned
possibilities for the broken world that surrounded her. She desperately yearned for a glimpse of
the benevolent college student who had befriended her, and the mental images suddenly blurred
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into the darkness that served as a reminder of her handicap. When the motion of the bus ceased
on its sixth stop, Irene became alert because she recalled that the bus would arrive at Laurence’s
home on the sixth stop. She climbed from the seat and was convinced that the inconsiderate
passengers were glaring at her as she gingerly sauntered down the bus steps that led to the
sidewalk. Laurence “Scary Larry” Jonker greeted Irene with the magnificent voice that she had
enjoyed during his numerous visits to the Home for the Blind. During dinner, Irene was
reminded that Laurence treated her with compassion because he admired her personality and not
because he sympathized with the seemingly dependent blind girl. Laurence attempted to breach
moments of silence by addressing trivial topics of popular culture, but he exercised caution as he
considered potential discussion topics because he recalled that Irene had never seen a television
program. Laurence recognized that Irene was comfortable because she had removed her
sunglasses. Although Irene’s shifting eyeballs could not focus on a single object, Laurence
assured himself that Irene was staring directly at him. Irene was preoccupied with the CD that
Koldewey believed would extinguish her blindness, and she eventually excused herself from the
kitchen so that she could examine the CD in the guest bedroom of Laurence’s home.
After Laurence escorted Irene to his guest bedroom, Irene slammed the door shut and
inserted Koldewey’s CD into her portable player before she placed headphones over her ears.
Laurence concluded that Irene was situated in the guest bedroom, and as he walked through the
front door, he informed Irene that he needed to purchase items from the grocery store. Irene
outstretched her hand to search for objects that were obscured by the dark mental prison that her
blindness had generated, and her ears tingled when the music of the CD player blared through
the headphones. The music blended into a corkscrew of ethereal voices that were transmitted
into Irene’s mind. As the repetition of voices bounced across the walls to produce an echo, Irene
glided her extended hand across the coarse plaster of the bedroom wall. Irene was prepared to
dismiss the mysterious voices as incoherent rambling, but the voices that were calling to Irene
commanded her to extinguish the human sin that had triggered her blindness. Irene entered a
hypnotic state as the voices swept across her body to influence her judgment. Her fingertips
slowly slithered across the wall during her journey through the darkness. Her fingertips
indicated that she had reached the plaster wall of the bedroom, and she removed a pencil from
her suitcase as the voices from the music swirled through her psyche. She placed her perspiring
palm on the wall that she could identify only through her sense of touch, and she adhered to the
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subliminal instructions of the music that would not cease. Her contorted fingers clasped the
pencil that she had rarely used and shoved the graphite tip into the jagged plaster of the wall.
She remained shackled in the solitary confinement of her mind as she feverishly slashed the
pencil in seemingly haphazard directions across the coarse wall. The pencil pierced the plaster
and smoothly traveled in a straight direction before shifting downward in a circular motion, and
the dazed appearance remained etched on Irene’s face as she carved into the wall. While Irene’s
foggy eyes suggested that she had surrendered her mental judgment to the voices, her trembling
hands zealously crafted a complex geometric shape into the wall. After Irene completed her
design, the pencil plunged to the dusty floor of spider webs and mothballs. Irene was startled
when the enormous square wall appeared in the darkness of her visual spectrum, and the shapes
of curved lines could be detected on the center of the wall. The voices that were incorporated
into the music dissipated as Irene struggled with her newly acquired sight of the wall.
Although Irene had been granted the necessary sight to observe the wall, a cloud of
darkness surrounded the square wall because she could not physically see any additional objects.
Her eyes captured the light that was reflected from the wall and transmitted the three-
dimensional object into her perception, but the blue wall appeared black through Irene’s eyes.
She had never viewed the colors of the visible light spectrum, but she was infuriated that the wall
was painted in the ordinary color of black. Her red complexion displayed the emotion of
sadness, and Irene’s receptive ears were suddenly stimulated by the low melody of a chime that
played in the distance. The plaster wall instantly altered its color from the hideous shade of
black into the dazzling blue that all humans with proper vision could observe. Irene concluded
that she was truly viewing the intended color of the wall for the first time, and the mysterious
geometric shape on the wall was a seven-sided design that was composed of a square, a circle,
and a triangle. The voices on Koldewey’s CD had shackled Irene in the hypnotic state that
caused her to etch the mysterious design, and the geometric shape allowed Irene to observe the
wall on which she had drawn the shape.
The flabbergasted blind woman breathed heavily as she examined the wall with her
fingers, and she leaned her head against the wall to ensure that the visible wall was truly real.
Her hand stroked the wall for several seconds, but the square wall was surrounded by a cloud of
blackness because the mysterious geometric shape had caused only the wall to become visible as
an image that was relayed into Irene’s mind. She discovered that the wall was the only visible
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object in her limited visual scope and that she could not see her hand. As Irene adjusted to the
peculiar setting, her gliding hand formed a black shadow that engulfed the wall. Her
undetectable hand suddenly became chilled and mysteriously merged into the wall plaster.
Irene’s left hand rapidly solidified into the moist plaster, and although she could not physically
identify her hand, the tingling sensation that stiffened her fingers invigorated her sense of touch.
Her pores emitted droplets of sweat that cooled her clammy hands, and when she lifted her stony
hand of plaster from the wall, her hand was so heavy that it immediately smashed into the wall
and rested in the plaster. The flabbergasted Irene frantically shook her solidified hand and
repeatedly slammed her palms into the geometric shape that had seemingly caused her to achieve
sight of the square wall. After her left shoulder leaned against the wall and instantly merged into
the plaster, Irene screamed and thrashed her right arm through the air in a futile struggle to
escape from the wall that was devouring her. The transforming plaster of the square wall
resembled wet cement that formed a portal of swirling plaster from which Irene could not escape.
She positioned her left foot in the center of the spinning corkscrew of plaster that the wall had
become, and the portion of her left leg from her knee to her foot disappeared beneath the
engulfing vortex. The wall now resembled a gaping mouth that hoped to swallow Irene by
absorbing her entire body into its plaster.
Irene could see only the plaster wall and the engulfing darkness that her body created as it
blended into the wall, and she heaved her bruised head back and forth and repeatedly collided
into the wall as she frantically struggled to achieve freedom. She exhausted all her strength to
lift the right hand that had not mixed into the wall plaster, and her free right shoulder lunged
back before she propelled her right hand into the geometric shape that was drawn on the wall.
Her solidified hands remained shackled beneath the spinning vortex of plaster that was
comparable to moist cement, so she could not use her hands to remove her left leg from the
transforming square wall. She no longer could maintain her upright balance, and after her right
leg violently contracted and snapped, she collapsed to her right knee while her left leg and right
shoulder furthered their gradual descents through the engulfing plaster. Despite her panic and
the racing of her palpitating heart, she remained relatively composed as her perceptive ears
discerned the swishing breeze of wind that was being emitted from the transforming square wall.
Irene mustered all her strength to pull her frigid body backwards in her desperate attempt to free
herself from the plaster wall, and her teeth chattered in response to the bizarre event because the
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plaster that absorbed her body was extremely cold. The moist plaster continued to swirl into a
corkscrew that forcefully dragged Irene’s right knee from the floor, and the hissing wind from
the wall whispered into Irene’s receptive ears to indicate that her death was imminent. Her
twisted right knee was straightened into position by the sucking breeze that swept across her
body, and the spinning vortex of plaster violently dragged both her legs across the carpet floor
until they disappeared beneath the plaster. The sucking plaster hauled Irene’s weary body across
the floor on her stomach, and the square wall consumed Irene’s legs and solidified them into the
cold plaster. Irene’s stomach was lacerated by the forceful motion that propelled her across the
floor, and the torso from her stomach to her head became the only segment of her body that had
not vanished beneath the vortex of plaster. Irene’s right shoulder and left hand remained
completely solidified although they suddenly had been unshackled from the wall, and she
inserted her fingernails into the carpet bristles to prevent the rest of her body from being
absorbed into the wall. The stony fingers of her solidified left hand nearly snapped into pieces as
she contorted her fingers and scraped her hands in a desperate effort to claw away from the
sucking plaster.
After permanent fingernail marks were imprinted into the carpet, the stony index finger
of Irene’s left hand was detached from her body because it was fractured when Irene pulled it
across the floor. The helpless child screamed in agony, but no dripping blood prickled from her
injury despite the tremendous pain that it produced. Despite the cold shivers that the wall plaster
forced Irene to experience, the pain and intensity of the situation caused sweat droplets to
perspire from the pores in her wrinkled forehead. Irene’s blind eyes could physically observe
only the plaster wall, so her eyes failed to detect the sweat formation that rolled from her head
until it plummeted to the stony fingers of her left hand. Irene’s solidified fingertips tingled with
the stinging sensation that the dripping sweat had generated, and the stony infection on her
fingers gradually washed away as the sweat soaked into her aching left hand. She quickly
discovered that her sweat previously had allowed her to free her right shoulder and left hand
from the wall plaster, so she extended her neck to ensure that the sweat from her forehead could
plummet to her stony fingers. Irene’s sweat dripped from her forehead to her stony left hand,
and the perspiration slowly consumed the moist plaster that engulfed her left hand until the stony
infection completely disappeared. She shook her left hand as the plaster was washed away, and
after the stony formation transformed into human flesh, Irene sensed that her left hand had
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sprouted five fingers. Irene’s sweat had absorbed the moist plaster and had caused her left hand
to return to its original condition, and she continued to imbed her fingernails into the carpet to
ensure that her torso was not sucked beneath the spinning wall plaster. The wind of the whistling
wall produced shrill screams and hisses as Irene wildly thrashed her hands back and forth, and
Irene clawed her fingers across the carpet bristles until blood trickled from her cracked
fingernails. Irene forced her head through the air so that the sweat from her forehead could reach
her cold legs and the additional portions of her body that remained buried beneath the
transforming plaster. The wall plaster that resembled hardened cement on Irene’s skin was
liquefied by the perspiration from her forehead, and the dripping plaster became comparable to
wet mud that rolled down her body and dangled from the hairs on her skin. The sweat slowly
washed away the plaster and caused her solidified body to return to human flesh, and Irene
screamed to express her misery as she mustered the strength necessary to roll from her bruised
stomach to her back. Although the segment of her body from her waist to her feet remained
absorbed into the corkscrew of plaster, she lifted her shoulder blades from the bloody carpet and
retracted her head to peer into the center of the wall. Aches pierced through Irene’s neck as she
raised her head in an attempt to moisten the rest of her solidified body with perspiration. The
cold tingling of the plaster that had hardened on her body caused her muscles to shake and
spasm, and the transforming wall remained the only visible object in Irene’s limited vision as she
stared into the funnel of the spinning vortex.
The hissing wind that the wall emitted forced Irene’s scarred back to slide across the
floor, and her broken fingernails no longer could secure her distance from the wall that hauled
her body toward the spinning plaster. She retracted her neck and glared at the plaster that
continued to absorb her body, and her chin was violently wrenched into the center of the plaster
by the sucking of the wall. Irene forcefully pulled back her head and nearly snapped her neck as
the cold plaster solidified onto her lips and cheeks. She choked on the infection of stony plaster
that slithered across her lips, and although she was tempted to punch the swirling vortex of the
wall, she quickly recalled that the plaster would simply consume her fist. The sweat that dripped
from Irene’s forehead cooled the plaster infection that soaked into her lips, but the sweat could
not prevent the stony infection from extending across her swollen cheeks until it reached her
hair. The brown hairs on Irene’s head turned white as they hardened into plaster bristles that
were snapped into pieces by the vigorous breeze of the wall. The stony infection attempted to
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pry open Irene’s swollen lips to invade her mouth, and as she gasped for oxygen, her sweat
intensified to cause the solidified plaster on her face to resemble wet mud.
A rumble that could be heard behind Irene simply amplified her anxieties. A small
television set was vibrating on a desk behind the panicked Irene, and the television levitated from
the desk and soared through the air toward Irene’s skull. She recalled that her left hand was
unshackled from the swirling plaster as her shifting eyeballs were forced to stare directly at the
mysterious geometric design that had caused the square wall to become visible. She yanked her
heavy left hand from the carpet floor and exhausted all her remaining strength simply to dip her
hand into the moist plaster until it solidified and was submerged beneath the center of the wall.
Irene’s fatigued left hand slowly glided across the geometric design in the spinning plaster and
smeared the pencil until the shape had been completely blurred. Irene’s left hand, right shoulder,
waist, legs, and chin had blended into the wall plaster, but when the geometric design became
smudged, Irene’s entire body was instantly unshackled from the wall. Her solidified body
transformed into human flesh before she pulled her legs from beneath the plaster and crawled
away from the square wall. The whistle of the wind dissipated because the square wall had
returned to its previous state of lifelessness, and Irene lowered her head to duck as the levitating
television set soared in her direction. When the whistling television set crashed into the wall, the
television penetrated the plaster and was connected to the blurred geometric shape on the wall.
Irene was lying in an unconscious state on the floor, and the smudged geometric shape glowed in
the darkness to transport her from the bedroom setting. When she awakened from her
unconscious state, she opened her eyes and gasped for oxygen as her lungs were filled with
water. Irene realized that she was sinking through a bottomless sea with hundreds of other
swimmers. She could physically observe the aquatic setting of sparkling blue water that flooded
into her eyes and dampened her clothing, but she was alarmed by the sight of the human bodies
that swam in a circle around her. Irene tilted her head upward and scanned the surrounding
bodies as the immense pressure of the water weighed her further into the abyss. During her
desperate gasps for oxygen, she realized that the human bodies were swimming upward to reach
a glistening hook that had been plunged into the water.
The human bodies who intensely paddled toward the enormous hook resembled fish that
were enticed by the bait of a fisherman’s pole. When the humans clasped the sharp hook tip, the
long fisherman’s pole methodically dragged the hook through the bubbling water and lifted the
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bodies to the surface. The disoriented Irene slammed the water with her paddling hands in an
effort to reach the hook that was lifting human bodies from the sea of impending death.
Although her mouth remained closed, her gaping eyes were clouded by the water that she
observed for the first time, and she realized that she would never be able to reach the elusive
hook because the waves continued to pelt her face. The beaming sunlight glistened on the
fisherman’s pole, and Irene ineffectively pushed against the current to reach the fisherman who
tempted her with freedom. She screamed for the hook to lower so that she could escape from the
bubbling whirlpool, and her arms violently thrashed back and forth in a frantic struggle to grasp
the hook that taunted her. Her eyes closed after the bubbling water aggravated her newly
acquired vision, and when she opened her eyes, she returned to the setting in the guest bedroom
of Laurence’s home.
Irene’s clothing was drenched in the water of her previous experience as she crawled
across the bedroom floor, and after she pulled herself to her feet, she rotated around the room to
scan her surroundings. She had returned to the miserable darkness of her mind because she
could no longer physically see any objects in the room. As her pupils shifted from side to side,
she discovered that she could not see the wall or the smeared geometric shape that had
previously caused the wall to become visible. She was terrified by her confusing experiences,
and her eyes adjusted to the restored darkness as the water that dampened her clothing trickled
onto the floor. The ethereal voices returned and continued their transmission from Koldewey’s
CD into Irene’s mind. The resounding music that traveled from the headphones into Irene’s ear
conquered her judgment and forced her to retrieve the pencil on the floor. During the journey
through mental darkness, her extended fingertips glided across the coarse walls until she entered
the bathroom. The haunting voices commanded the hypnotized Irene to approach the toilet that
her eyes could not physically detect. Irene’s knee violently contracted after striking the toilet
edge, and she collapsed to her knees after being influenced by the chanting voices that flowed
from Koldewey’s CD. Irene clasped the pencil between her shaking fingers, kneeled at the toilet,
and positioned her chin on the cold surface of the circular seat. The pencil slashed across the
toilet seat in several forceful motions to emphasize Irene’s hypnotic condition, and although the
pencil tip could not fashion any permanent marks into the granite toilet, Irene etched the
geometric design on the seat. Her chin rested on the cold seat as her mind resisted the
overwhelming influence of the voices on Koldewey’s CD. She opened her mouth to exhale the
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oxygen that had amassed in her throat, and she surrendered to the voices that gathered inside her
mind. Her eyes darted downward across the dark spectrum until she discovered that she was
able to see the circular toilet seat and the same seven-sided geometric design that had caused the
wall to become visible. The appalled Irene quickly removed her chin from the frigid surface of
the toilet, and her darting eyes were transfixed by the circular toilet seat that emitted the only
source of visible light. The light of the toilet seat shined through the darkness that obscured her
vision, and her eyelids refused to blink because they were locked on the only visible object in her
sight. Irene experienced tremendous joy after she regained her ability to view another physical
object. The white toilet seat mysteriously displayed a gray shade as Irene cherished the rare
opportunity to examine her surroundings. The floorboard vibrated during Irene’s celebration of
momentary sight, and she nearly tumbled to the unforgiving bathroom tiles as a piercing drone
forced her to shield her ears with her hands. The horrifying voices continued their chants and
alerted Irene that the shriek had ceased when they drowned out the puzzling sound. Irene
directed her eyes to the circular toilet seat and to the seven-sided geometric shape that had
provided the blind woman with her fleeting lucidity.
Her weary eyes closed as they painstakingly focused on the toilet seat that illuminated the
darkness. She smiled with a wide grin that extended across her cheeks because the confusing fog
gradually was being lifted from her visual spectrum. The seven-sided geometric design became
clearly visible on the center of the toilet seat, and Irene placed her palm on the glowing design in
an attempt to understand its significance. When she glided her fingers across the triangular
segment of the seven-sided shape, she inadvertently smeared the design with the sweat that
dripped from her fingers. Her eyes remained closed as she scanned the geometric shape, and her
momentary contentment was conquered by the astonishment that she experienced after she
opened her eyes. She suddenly became icy cold as her body merged with the circular toilet seat
on which she had sketched the seven-sided geometric shape.
A stony formation slowly slithered from Irene’s feet to her head, and after she had
completely transformed from human flesh into stone, the weight of her body became so heavy
that she collapsed backwards through the bathroom wall. Her stony body fashioned an enormous
dent in the bathroom wall, and she exhausted all her strength to rise from the dusty carpet of the
guest bedroom. The falling plaster fragments of the demolished wall invaded the carpet bristles,
and Irene struggled simply to lift her heavy feet as she walked through the gaping wall dent to
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return to the bathroom. She flailed her rocky arms wildly to maintain her precious upright
balance, and after the tremendous weight became overwhelming again, she collapsed backwards
to the bathroom floor. Her stony body imprinted the image of a human contour into the floor,
and she rested among the wreckage that her body’s merger with the circular toilet seat had
produced. Despite the rocky crust that covered the outer coating of her eyes, she mustered the
strength to slam down the shades of her eyelashes. When she opened her eyes, she discovered
that her stony body had disappeared after being replaced by crusty human flesh, and she had
been transported to a garden of beautiful roses and wheat stalks. In her terror, she feverishly
maneuvered her hands across her body to ensure that the stony formation had completely
disappeared. Her unwavering sense of smell was invigorated by the fragrance of the soil in
which the roses were flourishing, but the incessant chants of the voices in the music were no
longer pestering her mind. The circular toilet seat that Irene had once cherished was replaced by
the breathtaking scenery of the field. She gingerly walked through the grass and stepped over
the scattered tree branches that hindered her progression. The gigantic hook that was suspended
above her in the previous experience had disappeared. The glistening sunlight soaked into her
brown skin as her shifting eyes concluded that the grassy field extended for miles in limitless
directions. Irene pushed through the high grass and the wheat stalks that swayed back and forth
in the gentle breeze, and the blind woman was enchanted by the natural beauty that she was
embracing for the first time. She opened her mouth and indulged all her senses by inhaling the
sounds, smells, and sights in the field, but she quickly became disheartened when she concluded
that the vast field contained absolutely no other human lives. After she satisfied her senses, her
hands frantically pushed through the wheat stalks, but the stalks resembled razors that pierced
Irene’s arms as her sprint continued. When Irene shoved the wheat stalks with her bruised
palms, the stalks retaliated by bouncing from the ground to smack her across the face. The
swaying wheat stalks knocked Irene from her feet, and she buried her face in the gritty soil
before she clutched a prickly stalk and pulled herself to a standing position. Her eyes peered
through the labyrinth of overlapping wheat stalks as detached bristles were scattered by the
breeze.
A line of humans somehow materialized in the windy field of wheat stalks, and when
Irene screamed at the expressionless humans in an attempt to understand her situation, the bodies
remained motionless with their backs facing her. She interlocked her fingers across the shoulder
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of an unresponsive human who stood in the line, and after she rotated the human to face her, the
human frightened her with his grotesque complexion. The flesh was peeling from the
individual’s cheekbones and was sliding down his face toward his decaying throat, and Irene
immediately turned away from the horror and charged in the opposite direction through the field.
The corn stalks hindered her frantic sprint until she reached a sandy desert that mysteriously
appeared at the end of the field. Several buzzards circled in the misty sky directly above Irene
while her dried tongue and perspiring flesh indicated that she was enduring a humid climate.
She climbed down the rocky terrain and approached an oasis, and the sunlight caused her to
squint as she leaned down to glare at her reflected complexion on the water surface. The
reflection in the water displayed the chubby face of an infant that transformed into a wrinkled old
man with gray, stringy hair. She retracted her head from the disturbing imagery and fluttered her
hands back and forth to regain her balance on the slippery surface of sand. A tornado of
spinning sand and dust launched several grains that were pushed through the air into Irene’s
eyes. When she slammed down her eyelids in response to the unpleasant infection, she returned
to the darkness of the bathroom from which she had been transported. She emerged from the
massive human imprint that previously had been sculpted into the tiles of the bathroom floor.
Her inquisitive fingertips slithered along the bathroom floor and searched for the circular toilet
seat that had once empowered Irene’s feeble spirit. When the fingertips were stung by the cold
tingle of the toilet, the surge of electric impulses informed Irene that she had discovered the toilet
in the darkness. The object was no longer visible after the geometric shape had been smudged,
so Irene remained alone inside the confines of her mind until Koldewey’s CD reactivated its
transmission of the voices into her ringing eardrum.
She removed the pencil from the floor during her readjustment to the darkness that
flooded her visual spectrum, and the brilliant field flashed through her mind to provide her with
the encouragement that she needed to continue. She positioned her palms on the bathroom
counter and exerted the force that allowed her to pull up from the floor. She wandered from the
bathroom into a sea of darkness as the voices in the music continued. Irene considered that she
was insane because the rambling voices provided her with commands that she believed were
completely coherent. In a state of confusion, she walked from the bathroom entrance and quietly
approached the lamp that rested on the table next to the guest bed. She returned to the darkness
that had defined her existence for so long, and the persuasive voices instructed her to etch the
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seven-sided geometric design into the lampshade that covered an incandescent light bulb. Irene
followed the instructions of the eerie voices, and she dragged her pencil across the coarse fabric
of the lampshade. While the ticking of a distant clock stimulated her sense of hearing, she
continued to slash across the lamp base in various directions until the seven-sided design was
completed. The straight lines that Irene had formed curved into the complex design of the
mystical shape, and the lamp became the only physical object that Irene could identify in her
limited visual scope. Although the lampshade was blue, the fabric appeared white through
Irene’s eyes, and the slight warmth of the lamp suddenly transformed into intense heat that
soaked her skin with profuse sweat. The geometric shape that she had drawn on the lampshade
caused her body to merge with the light bulb, and she resembled a human flashlight when her
skin glowed with the same incandescent light that was emitted by the visible lamp.
She literally became a source of light in the darkness, and she stridently screamed as her
skin burned from the intense heat inside her body. Although her skin was glowing, her eyesight
remained limited and could identify only the lamp on the table, but she was unable to focus on
her vision because the extreme temperature was overwhelming. She nearly collapsed over the
imprint in the floor as she charged toward the bathroom, and her tingling fingertips identified the
smooth surface of the sink after her knee banged into the cabinet beneath the sink. Her shaking
hands turned the handle of the faucet to release water that could possibly alleviate the burning
sensation, and a cold stream of water gushed from the faucet onto her charred fingertips. She
was connected to the light bulb that was powered by an electric outlet, so when the water reached
her skin, sparks of electricity flashed in several directions from her body. She plummeted
backwards to the marble floor in an unconscious state, and the geometric shape on the lampshade
glowed to stimulate her tortured mind to experience another vision.
The lamp blended into the darkness when the unconscious Irene was transported from the
bathroom in Laurence’s bedroom to the acrid forest. In her new setting, Irene lifted her head to
glare at the crescent moon in the misty night sky. She pushed through the gnarled tree branches
and was greeted by mosquitoes that landed on her arm. Several flies buzzed around her head as
she stepped over the tree branches in the grassy underbrush. After she pushed through a thicket,
she reached a camp site as sweat rolled down her cheeks. An old man with a gray beard was
seated on a log, and he watched his glowing campfire as his attentive wife sat beside him. The
old man turned his head and recognized Irene when she emerged from the branches, and he
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motioned for her to join him and his wife at the campfire. Irene yearned to communicate with
the old man as she cautiously approached the campfire, but she could not unfasten her lips and
remained silent. The old man continued to wave his hand while his wife naively smiled, but
Irene somehow feared the campfire that was becoming larger as it sparkled and crackled. The
intense flames lead the old man to retrieve two sticks from the dirt, and he vigorously rubbed two
sticks together above the rising flames. The rubbing sticks ignited the flames around which the
old man and his wife were gathered, and while the flames escalated higher, the old man realized
that he could no longer control the flames. He fiercely stroked the sticks together and shifted his
glance back to Irene so that he could encourage her to join him around the campfire. The old
man struggled to contain the flame by rubbing the sticks together. His wife screamed
hysterically for Irene to provide her husband with necessary aid to control the blaze. The old
man yielded to the untamed flame that he simply could not subjugate, and he lunged into the
flame as Irene oversaw the mysterious event. The old man bawled in agony as his flesh burned
in the flames that he somehow had intensified by rubbing two sticks together. His wife simply
stared in horror as her screaming husband rolled through the flames. The sight of charred flesh
disturbed Irene, who maintained her distance from the charred man, and the expanding flames
swept upward through the night sky. The flames exploded and hurled debris that caused Irene to
soar backwards into a tree. Her head violently collided into the tree trunk, and after her limp
body slid down the tree bark into the mucky dirt, she returned from her vision to the icy floor of
the bathroom. The burning sensation that was produced when her body merged with the light
bulb had ceased, and she crawled across the bathroom floor until she reached the carpet.
At ten o’clock at night, Laurence Jonker drove into the driveway of his home and was
unaware of the events that occurred after Irene had exposed herself to the hypnotic voices on
Koldewey’s CD. Laurence carried two groceries bags from his car and approached the front
door, but a shadowy presence loomed behind Laurence and smashed him over the head with a
baseball bat. The figure emerged from the murky curtain and revealed that he was Stephen
Koldewey, who had arrived to ensure that Irene would be influenced by the voices on his
mysterious CD. After Laurence collapsed to the concrete of his garage in an unconscious state,
Koldewey retrieved Laurence’s keys and dragged his limp body inside the home to determine
whether Irene had exposed herself to the voices. Koldewey placed the unconscious Laurence
across his left shoulder and lugged him to the guest bedroom where he discovered that Irene was
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sprawled across the floor. Koldewey placed Laurence in a seated position on the carpet and
concluded that Irene had been exposed to the voices because the square television set had dented
the plaster wall. Irene slowly was dragging her legs across the carpet floor of Laurence’s guest
bedroom, and because her blindness was restored, she detected her surroundings by examining
the carpet bristles with her outstretched fingertips. She could not determine whether her
previous experiences were hallucinations, but the potential pain that Irene should have
experienced no longer existed in the darkness of the guest bedroom.
Irene crawled to a table and pulled herself to a standing position before she became
alarmed by the commotion of heavy breathing. Irene immediately recognized the hoarse voice
of Stephen Koldewey when he declared, “Thank you, Irene. You have cleaned the sinful stain of
human existence. You have unlocked the power of the Septraveck.”
Irene’s eyes shifted from side to side in an attempt to locate Koldewey in the darkness.
She responded to Koldewey’s puzzling statement by screaming, “What are you doing here?
What have you done to me, Mr. Koldewey? What’s going on?”
Koldewey had connected Irene’s brain to the Septraveck, which was one of the musical
instruments that God’s musicians known as the Allegros had played to project the once perfect
universe into existence at the beginning of time. The universe initially thrived as the Allegros’
harmonious song in which humans functioned as its musical notes, but God instructed one of the
Allegros named Srele to introduce free will to the human race. Free will allowed humans to
commit sins that tarnished perfection and that converted the universe from an immaculate song
into an unbalanced universal equation in which humans existed as weak variables. Koldewey
now hoped to restructure the universe by establishing Irene’s psychic connection to the
Septraveck instrument. Her blindness enhanced her other senses and invigorated her with the
powerful emotions that were required to play the Septraveck. Koldewey was convinced that
Irene could restore perfection to the broken world by playing the original song that the Allegros
had performed to project the once perfect universe into existence. He was optimistic that he
could eradicate sins and illnesses by forcing Irene to play the Septraveck with her intense
emotions to transform humans from variables in an unstable equation back into perfect musical
notes in a melodious song. He imagined that humans could exist as immortal beings who would
never die and who would never be subjected to God’s divine judgment in the afterlife. His work
with a mysterious computer company known as the Mechanist group and his own diagnosis with
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terminal cancer had prompted him to stalk Irene in the Virginia Home for the Blind and to
connect her to the Septraveck. Koldewey considered that he could be defying God’s will by
seeking to restore perfection, but he concluded that he possessed boundless free will that God
would not restrict. Koldewey viewed the seven-sided Septraveck as a numinous shape that was
comparable to the Image of Edessa, which was a square cloth that Jesus Christ sent to King
Abgar V of Edessa to heal him of leprosy. In The Book of Deuteronomy, symbolic coins known
as the Urim and Thummim were used by oracles to predict the future and to separate sinners
from righteous individuals, and the Septraveck symbol could erase the sins that caused illnesses
and could restore perfection to the broken world. Irene had drawn the Septraveck on the wall,
and in The Book of Daniel, a disembodied hand etched the words “MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN” on the temple wall of the Babylonian King Belshazzar to warn that the Babylonian
Empire would collapse for persecuting Israel. Koldewey was convinced that the Septraveck
shapes on the wall possessed the same divine power as the prophetic words on the wall in The
Book of Daniel. The square, the triangle, and the circle, which comprised the seven-sided
Septraveck shape, stimulated Irene to experience divine visions. Koldewey believed that her
visions were comparable to the eight visions of horses, flying scrolls, and a golden lamp that the
Prophet Zechariah perceived to demonstrate God’s love and judgment for Israel.
While Irene sought to focus her eyes on any objects in the darkness, Koldewey
considered that she had become comparable to the Biblical Jewish Prophet Esther because she
protected her people from being exterminated by the Persian King Ahasuerus just as Irene could
now cease human suffering. Koldewey quoted a verse from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock” to explain his unlimited free will to restore perfection to the broken world,
underscored the power of shapes, and compared Irene to Esther when he muttered, “Do I dare
disturb the universe, Irene? In a minute, there is time, for decisions and revisions, which a
minute will reverse. The answer is, ‘Yes.’ I used to ask myself a lot of questions. Who am I to
change the world? Who am I to try to rescue humanity from drowning in this cesspool of sin?
Who am I to save them from God’s unfair judgment? Then, I realized that I had unlimited free
will to do whatever I wanted. I have the free will to change the world; I can control the
mechanics and mechanisms of this mortal coil and turn the sufferers’ screams into songs. I have
the free will to end free will, and it all begins with you. In the Bible, a disembodied hand drew
the words ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN’ on the wall in the temple of the Babylonian
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King Belshazzar. Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall to mean that the Babylonian Empire
would fall, and it did. In a dream, God showed Daniel a ram and a goat that the Angel Gabriel
interpreted as a sign of the Apocalypse. Those words on the wall had meaning from God, and
those shapes on the wall have the same meaning. They’re a symbol of God’s perfection; they’re
a symbol of the end, just like the ram and the goat. God protected Daniel from the lions in the
Lions’ Den, and now, He’s protected you. Those shapes probably gave you visions, too. God
gave Zechariah eight visions to show God’s love and His judgment for Israel. Zechariah saw
flying scrolls and four chariots. I can’t wait to find out what you saw through those shapes on
the wall. Those shapes on the wall are powerful. The Image of Edessa was a square cloth that
bears the Holy Face of Genoa; Jesus used it to cure King Abgar V of leprosy. The Septraveck
shape is just as powerful; it’s shown you the end. Now, you’ve seen the end of days in this
Laodicean Age of Apostasy. You’re my prophet, Irene, and you’re going to help me change the
world. In The Book of Esther, Hadassah became Esther and saved her Jewish people from being
killed by the Persian King Ahasuerus. Now, Irene, you’re just like Esther; you’ve got to save the
human race from drowning in this cesspool of sin. We can’t be silent about this pain anymore;
we’ve got to use the Septraveck’s music to bring people deliverance from their pain.”
When Irene choked out, “What are you talking about?,” Koldewey recalled that
according to The Book of Genesis, God had banished Adam and Eve from the perfect Garden of
Eden for committing the original sin of eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. God informed
Adam and Eve that they would eventually perish and return to the dust that formed them, and
God commissioned a Cherub to use a Flaming Sword to prevent Adam and Eve from reentering
the perfect garden. The Flaming Sword of Eden blocked humans from regaining their perfect
Paradise, and Koldewey insisted that he did not even require the Cherub’s mystical Flaming
Sword of Eden to restore perfection to the broken world. He paraphrased words from The Book
of Ezekiel about human iniquity and quoted a verse from The Book of Genesis when he
answered, “Just listen to me, Irene. Our sins corrupted Paradise. God cursed the ground and
infused the world with sins. We lost the seal of perfection when we were filled with violence,
and we were cast as profane from the mountain of God. Now, we are like dross to Him; we
drink iniquity like water. We are but dust and ashes, but we don’t have to feel ‘the sting of
death’ anymore. We can be eternal, sacred and imperishable. After God banished Adam and
Eve from the Garden of Eden, He put a Cherub with a Flaming Sword at the gates of perfection.
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It is written: ‘So He drove the man out, and at the east of the Garden of Eden, He stationed the
Cherub and the Flaming Sword, which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of
life.’ The Flaming Sword of Eden kept humans from returning to perfection, but now, I’ve
found the key to unlocking perfection. The key to perfection is in the Septraveck shape. I don’t
need the Flaming Sword of Eden to save us from drowning in this cesspool of sin; the
Septraveck is all that we need to return to Paradise. The Septraveck is the Flaming Sword of
Eden; it is the key to everything.”
Irene inquired about Koldewey’s yearning to restore perfection to the broken world by
retorting, “What do you mean? What did you do to me?”
Koldewey quoted a Biblical verse from 1 Corinthians to explicate his yearning to return
the world to the perfect Paradise that was promised only in Heaven, and he condemned God for
apparently reneging on His promises by replying, “It’s simple; it’s a matter of vision. You’ve
always seen the world in darkness, Irene, but the rest of us have been seeing the world in a
cloudy mirror. 1 Corinthians says, ‘Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but
then, we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
but then, I will know everything completely, just as God knows me completely.’ I want to see
this world clearly and completely through God’s eyes; I can’t wait any longer. He promised that
even though people are wasting away, they would be renewed day by day, but He hasn’t renewed
His people. He’s forsaken His promise to prosper His people and to give them hope and a future.
He’s letting us waste away and drown in a cesspool of sin, so I’ve got to make sure that we learn
to see the world through His eyes. The Septraveck will let me see this broken world through His
perfect eyes.”
Irene had been granted only a few moments of sight because the Septraveck shape erased
her blindness and allowed her to perceive the “cloudy mirror” through which other humans
allegedly viewed their fleeting physical surroundings. She was so flustered by Koldewey’s
aspiration to view the world through God’s eternal eyes that she could only ask, “What’s a
Septraveck?”
Koldewey compared the Septraveck to Gideon’s magical trumpets that defeated the
Midianites, the shouts that Joshua used to destroy the Walls of Jericho, and David’s magical harp
that exorcised Saul’s demons and that celebrated the Israelites’ conquest of the Philistines. He
believed that the Septraveck was more powerful than these other divine musical instruments,
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including King David’s harp that accompanied his one hundred and fifty Psalms and that
enhanced his “Song of Deliverance” in which he pleaded for God’s comfort and mercy.
Koldewey maintained that the seven-sided Septraveck shape was essential to the restoration of
perfection and the end of sins during the Apocalypse when he rasped, “The Septraveck is
everything. The Flaming Sword of Eden doesn’t need to be removed for us to return to
perfection. All that you have to do is play the Septraveck instrument. It’s not just an image, it’s
not just words on a wall, it’s not just a square shape like the Image of Edessa. I used to think that
it was just another false idol, like Micah’s Idol or the ones that the Israelites built to Baal, but it’s
not. It’s not an idol that affronts Jacob’s Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Septraveck is a musical
instrument, but it’s more than that. It’s greater than the harp that David played to exorcise evil
spirits from King Saul. It’s greater than the magical trumpets that Gideon and the Israelite
priests used to shatter the clay jars against the Midianites or the trumpets and the shouts that
Joshua used to bring down the Walls of Jericho. It’s a shape and a musical instrument that will
lead us back to perfection before the Fall. The Book of Revelation says that seven angels will
play seven trumpets to create plagues that will wipe out one-third of humanity. 144,000 people
will be spared from God’s judgment because they’re faithful descendants of the Twelve Tribes of
Israel. It is written: ‘Then, I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and
with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father
written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from Heaven, like the sound of many waters and
like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice, which I heard, was like the sound of harpists
playing on their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne, and before the four living
creatures and the elders, and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four
thousand who had been purchased from the earth.’ The 144,000 people will sing a new song that
will bring an end to human suffering, and that new song is the Septraveck’s music. Now that we
have the Septraveck, we have the key to restore perfection to the broken world to end all human
misery.”
Koldewey’s seemingly incoherent references to the Flaming Sword of Eden, the Image of
Edessa, Micah’s Idol, King David’s harp, and the seven Apocalyptic trumpets only intensified
Irene’s confusion about the significance of the Septraveck, and she asserted, “I don’t understand.
Are you talking about ending the world with music?”
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Koldewey reevaluated his approach to defining the function of the Septraveck musical
instrument that could restore perfection, and as Irene glared at him with her shifting pupils, he
sensed that he needed to convince her that he was using the Septraveck for just reasons. He truly
believed that during the Apocalypse, 144,000 chosen people would perform a song that the
Septraveck’s music would accentuate, and he hoped that the angelic song and the Septraveck’s
music would eliminate human suffering from the earth. He recalled that Israelite King Solomon
composed over one thousand songs to praise God and that the Levites played lyres, cymbals,
harps, trumpets, and other musical instruments to celebrate the transportation of the Ark of the
Covenant and to dedicate Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. Even after Babylonian King
Nebuchadnezzar forced the Israelites into the Babylonian Exile in 586 BC for seventy years, the
Babylonians commanded the Israelites to perform the Psalms and The Book of Lamentations’
songs that encapsulated the characteristics of Zion. When the Prophet Ezra guided the 1,500
Israelites from the Babylonian Exile and Nehemiah oversaw the rebuilding of the walls in
Jerusalem, the Levite musicians praised God’s grace and were not forced to pay taxes. However,
although Joshua, Gideon, King David, and Hezekiah played music to honor God, many idolaters,
under the Hebrew leader Moses, sang and danced to worship a Golden Calf, and the prophets
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos warned the Israelites that God would punish them for their idolatrous
music. After the reign of King Solomon concluded, Rehoboam ascended to the throne, but
civilian opposition resulted in Jeroboam’s replacing Rehoboam. Jeroboam constantly battled
against the armies of Judah and against Rehoboam’s son Abijah, and after Jeroboam’s death,
Josiah governed for thirty-one years and banned many variations of idolatrous music. As
Koldewey contemplated both the pious and blasphemous uses of Biblical music, he also recalled
“The Song of Moses” that Moses and the Prophet Miriam sang to commemorate the defeat of the
Egyptians and “The Song of Deborah and Barak” that Barak and Deborah performed to celebrate
their victory over the armies of Sisera. After Koldewey’s mental analysis of Biblical music and
its righteous and idolatrous functions, he decided that the most powerful account of divine music
was located in The Book of Acts’ Sixteenth Chapter. In the book, St. Paul and Silas were
exorcising spirits and were preaching in Antioch and Philippi until magistrates incarcerated
them, and Paul and Silas sang hymns that generated an earthquake, which loosened the chains
that restrained Paul and Silas.
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Koldewey explained the different uses of music in the Bible and sought to persuade Irene
that he was a pious individual when he declared, “Yes, Irene, I’m talking about the end of human
misery with music. In the Bible, idolaters played music to worship Baal and their other false
idols, and other Israelites used music to praise God and to dedicate Solomon’s Temple in
Jerusalem. Even King Jehoshaphat led a choir of Levite musicians with trumpets, harps, and
lutes into battle against the Ammonites and the Moabites, and Isaiah and Jeremiah said that after
the Israelites stopped their idolatry, they would take their tambourines and sing to God to beg for
His mercy. Music is very powerful to the faithful and the blasphemers, but I’m among the
faithful. St. Paul and Silas sang hymns that were so powerful that they caused an earthquake.
Moses said that the Lord was his strength and his song. David said that God would surround His
people with songs of deliverance. Even when Habakkuk didn’t understand why God was letting
the Babylonians punish the Israelites, he still said that God was his chief singer on his stringed
instruments. The songs said that God’s name was above all other names and that every tongue
would confess and use breath to praise Him. I’ve tried to rejoice and raise my voice like a
trumpet to sing to the Lord to show that He’s worthy of praise and glory for His righteous acts.
Now, I’ve found my way to do that. The Septraveck will play a song that will bring an end to all
human suffering and restore perfection to the broken world. I’m trying to do His will, and the
Septraveck is His will.”
Koldewey’s professions that the Septraveck’s supernatural music would satisfy God’s
will for faithful individuals prompted Irene to question her brief moments of sight and the seven-
sided Septraveck shape by answering, “I don’t understand. What did you make me draw all over
this house? How could you make me see?”
Koldewey referred to the conversion of the murderer Saul to the Apostle St. Paul to
explain that God once believed that human blindness and other weaknesses represented His own
skewed concept of perfection when he answered, “I used the Septraveck to help you see, Irene.
God’s idea of perfection used to be for you to be blind and broken. God actually blinded Saul
for three days to turn him from a wicked murderer into His humble servant St. Paul. The
Romans imprisoned Paul, whipped him, stoned him, and eventually beheaded him. Paul died for
God, and when Paul suffered, God wouldn’t even comfort him. When Paul asked God to allay
his pain, God said, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’
Human suffering and weaknesses used to be part of God’s idea of perfection. It used to be His
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good, pleasant, and perfect will to show His works through people who were blind and lame, but
His will has changed. God wanted Paul to be blind for three days to make perfection out of his
weaknesses, but that’s not what He wants for you. He wants you to cure your blindness to create
real perfection and to save us from drowning in this cesspool of sin. He’s given us the free will
to use the Septraveck’s divine music to restore perfection, and that’s what we’re going to do.
The joy of the Lord is our strength, and playing the Septraveck is His will.”
Irene recalled that in The Book of John’s Ninth Chapter, Jesus Christ revealed that
although human sins caused individuals to be born blind, God used human weaknesses so that
“the works of God might be displayed” through His blind and lame followers, so Jesus spit in the
eyes of Bartimaeus and other blind men to grant them sight for God’s glory. However, Irene still
wondered why Koldewey believed that God had once viewed weaknesses as part of His idea of
perfection, and she pleaded for explanations when she rasped, “Wait, just tell me what’s going
on. I don’t understand what you mean, Mr. Koldewey.”
Irene’s confusion slightly miffed Koldewey, and he insisted that God had infused her
with blindness to punish humanity for its disobedience and addressed the origins of her
momentary vision from the seven-sided Septraveck shape when he responded, “How hard is it
for you to understand, Irene? I’ve opened your closed eyes; I’ve shown you the way to real
perfection. I knew that you would listen to the music I gave you. You just couldn’t resist. The
voices in the music have stopped because you followed their instructions. I’ve heard those
voices in my head for my entire life. I recorded the voices on that CD when they came to me.
The voices are those of the Allegros, God’s musicians who played the instruments that created
the world. The Allegros are the ultimate Cherub. Now, they’re holding the Flaming Sword of
Eden; they’ve got the key to restoring perfection. They wanted me to rebuild the instruments,
and I needed your help. The Allegros made you draw that geometric shape with seven sides.
That’s what the Septraveck is; it’s the shape of the main instrument that played the world into
existence. The Allegros played the Septraveck in the beginning, and the universe was a song in
which humans were its notes. The world was perfect, but man infected it with sins and ruined
the perfect song that the Septraveck had made. We can restore perfection, Irene. You unlocked
the Septraveck’s power to create perfection. Your blindness and all sickness exist because of
human sin and disobedience against God’s laws. Moses’ laws in Deuteronomy 28 say that if you
disobey God’s covenant and His word, He ‘will afflict you with madness, blindness, and
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confusion of mind.’ You’re blind because we’ve broken His laws, but the Septraveck gave you
sight because it erased the sin that caused your blindness. The Septraveck is just a musical
instrument that once gave perfection to the world. Now, just calm down, and tell me what
happened with the voices.”
In the dark room, Irene began to describe the three visions that the three shapes had
triggered in her mind when she declared, “Those voices made me draw the seven-sided shape on
the wall, the toilet seat, and a lamp. I saw these things for a minute, but the shape lost its power
really quickly. I guess the shapes got smeared. I drew the shape on the wall, and I thought that I
was being pulled into it. My hands were so cold. After that, I heard a loud crash because
something was pulled into the wall. Then, the visions started. My clothes are wet for a reason.
The visions had to be real. I was underwater, and I saw a circle of swimmers who were going
toward a big fisherman’s hook.”
With a hesitation, Koldewey revealed that the Septraveck had erased the sin that caused
Irene’s blindness to imbue her with sight for the first time in her life. The Septraveck was a
mystical musical instrument that had played the perfect universe into reality before humans used
their free will to commit sins that resulted in the loss of perfection, so the Septraveck could use
perfection to erase the sins that caused Irene’s blindness and other sicknesses for humans.
Koldewey indicated that the Septraveck cured Irene of her blindness by erasing the human sin
that caused her illness when he replied, “You made a connection with the Septraveck when you
drew it to erase the human sin that caused your blindness. The Septraveck is a musical
instrument that creates perfection. It’s formed by drawing a square, a circle, and a triangle
together in a seven-sided shape. The Allegros have used you to build the Septraveck instrument
so that we can restore perfection. The Allegros told you to draw the shape on the wall because
the wall is a square, the first shape that creates the Septraveck. The Septraveck unlocked the true
potential of the square when you drew it on the wall. The square represents the relationship of
humans with divinity. You must have seen a vision of God as a fisherman Who offered salvation
to the hopeless sea of humanity. You saw humans who were drowning in their sins, and I know
that the humans were swimming toward God’s hook to be saved from their pain. The Septraveck
that you drew pulled the television into the square wall because the television is another square
object. The Septraveck unlocked the power of the square and attracted all the square objects to
it.”
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Irene’s eyes darted through the darkness in an unsuccessful effort to regain her fleeting
vision and to locate Koldewey, but when her eyes could not focus on him, she readjusted to her
miserable handicap. She continued, “Then, the voices forced me to draw the shape on a toilet
seat. I had another vision after the shape got smeared. I was in a field where I saw a line of
people. Their faces were falling apart, so I ran. I ran to a desert, and I saw my reflection for the
first time. I think it was my reflection. It looked like a baby that melted away into an old man.”
Koldewey responded, “The Allegros forced you to draw the Septraveck on the toilet seat
because the seat is a circle, the second shape in the Septraveck. The circle represents patterns in
the universe and the repetition of life and death among humans. The humans in the line were
decaying to show that all humans will eventually die, but dead humans will be replaced in the
repeating cycle of life and death. The men in line were waiting to accept judgment after their
deaths. You said that you saw a baby that turned into an old man when you looked at your
reflection. The reflection shows that the human race will continue because old men who die will
be replaced by newborn babies. Plants and animals all will follow the repeating cycle of nature,
and everything that disappears will reappear as something else.”
Irene was disturbed by the uncomfortable silence that followed Koldewey’s faulty
explanations, but her blindness prevented her from observing Koldewey’s facial expressions so
that she could determine whether he was sincere. She breached the silence by declaring,
“I woke up, and those voices made me draw the shape one more time. I drew the shape on a
lamp. I saw the lamp for a second, but it disappeared, too. Then, I felt like my body was
burning, so I poured some water on my hands and had another vision. All of a sudden, I saw an
old man in the woods. He wanted me to help him with his campfire. He tried to get me to help
him, but the fire was burning out of control. Then, the fire exploded, and when I woke up, the
voices had stopped. I was back inside this house, and I was blind again. I guess everything that
I felt was an hallucination. Nothing was real, but it hurt so much. It felt so real.”
Koldewey shifted his attention to the lamp that was located on the table, and when he
discovered that the lamp was somewhat shaped like a triangle, he was prepared to discuss the
significance of the triangle that Irene had unleashed. Three sides of the Septraveck instrument
were constructed by the triangle while the remaining four sides were formed by the square that
was connected to the circle.
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Koldewey considered Irene’s visions and responded, “The triangle is the final shape that
makes up the seven-sided Septraveck, and that lamp resembles the triangle that you needed to
build the Septraveck instrument. You drew the Septraveck on the lamp to unlock the power of
the triangle. The triangle is a three-sided figure that demonstrates the power of three. The
triangle represents the Holy Trinity. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost come together to
create one everlasting God. The triangle also symbolizes the unity of a family. A man and his
wife conceive a child to begin a family, and the man, his wife, and their child all contribute to
create one loving family. The old man that you saw was likely your father, and the woman who
was with him was likely your mother. The burning fire represented the passionate strength of
human love, and your father wanted you to contribute to the family. He wanted you to help him
build a loving family, and the fire burned out of control because you were not there to contain
the passion. You were not there to help your family. Where are your parents now, Irene?”
Tears accumulated in Irene’s blind eyes as she was reminded that her parents had been
killed in a car accident, and after she acknowledged her parents’ unfortunate deaths, her eyeballs
drifted in various directions to scan the unyielding darkness.
She screamed, “Okay, Mr. Koldewey. My parents are dead. I’ve got nothing in my life.
Now, what do you want from me?”
Koldewey glared at Laurence’s unconscious body and smirked when he considered that
the stationary Irene could not detect anything visually in the physical world. Koldewey seized
Irene’s arm and placed her left hand on Laurence’s aching forehead, and Irene examined the
wrinkles that were Laurence’s distinguishing characteristics with her sensitive fingertips.
Koldewey’s malevolence was revealed in his voice when he asserted, “Look, Irene.
Here’s the only person who sees you as something more than you are. To him, you’re not just
the blind girl. Maybe, he just feels sorry for you. Do you really think that anything could
possibly work out between you and Jonker? He’s successful; he’s normal. You’re a
handicapped child; you’re not welcomed in his world. He’s happy with his life, Irene. He’s not
your baby-sitter. Leave him alone, and don’t ruin his life. He can’t take care of you just because
you’re the helpless blind girl. You always reminded everyone that you’re blind. Everyone has
to feel sorry for the blind girl.” Koldewey viciously screamed, “How can you trust a man who
you can’t even see? How can you truly know that he’s there? Now, don’t you want to see his
face? You’re connected to the Septraveck. It connected you to all the other geometric shapes in
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the universe. Why don’t you draw it on his face? The Septraveck can erase your sin for a
moment so that you can see him. Don’t you want to see his face, Irene? Just draw the shape on
his face.”
Koldewey removed a knife from his jacket and pierced Irene’s finger as her fingertips
glided across Laurence’s facial features. Droplets of blood trickled from the wound on Irene’s
finger and stained the carpet with a circular pattern of blood. After she instinctively retracted her
hand from Laurence’s forehead, Koldewey placed the jagged edge of the blade to Laurence’s
forehead and instructed Irene to imprint the complex Septraveck image onto Laurence’s face.
Irene’s blindness prevented her from witnessing Koldewey’s despicable gesture, but she was
tempted to sketch the Septraveck shape onto Laurence’s forehead so that he would become
visible through her eyes. Koldewey located Irene’s pencil near the table on which the lamp was
supported, and he placed the pencil in her palm before he closed her fingers into a fist that
gripped the pencil. Her hand was encumbered by a violent spasm as she gently jabbed
Laurence’s wrinkled forehead with the pencil tip, and Koldewey commanded Irene to sketch the
complex shape more quickly. Irene was apprehensive about the potential outcome of her
drawing the Septraveck, and she was soaked in rolling perspiration that distracted her hand from
the assigned task. The pencil bounced across Laurence’s rough flesh as Irene formed the first
three sides of the Septraveck shape by drawing the triangle that was connected to the circle.
Koldewey’s facial expression displayed his impatience, but Koldewey was unable to convey his
frustration because Irene remained blind despite her acquired talent to etch the Septraveck.
Koldewey had recorded the voices of the Allegros onto his CD, and Irene’s mind was able to
translate the incoherent rambling into cogent commands that informed her about the Septraveck.
The slithering pencil formed the four ninety degree angles that comprised the square portion of
the Septraveck, and when she completed the complex design, she unclasped her fingers and
allowed the pencil to smack the floor. Her arms glided across her eyes as she wiped the sweat
from her brow, and Koldewey intensely anticipated the startling effects of the Septraveck.
The darkness that plagued Irene’s existence gradually was lifted as a blurry human
contour transformed into the unmistakable body of Laurence Jonker. Irene simply savored the
privilege to observe the unconscious Laurence for the first time. The darkness in Irene’s visual
spectrum surrounded Laurence’s body because the Septraveck caused only Laurence to become
visible. She observed Laurence’s golden hair that was divided into various strands on the carpet.
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She was not concerned with superficial blemishes of Laurence’s physical appearance because
she was so overwhelmed by her first visual encounter with a human face. Laurence was not
awakened from his unconscious condition by Irene’s fingertips, and Koldewey stood in absolute
silence as he prepared for his predicted outcome of drawing the mystical Septraveck onto a
living organism.
Koldewey displayed his insensitivity when he sarcastically declared, “I guess that love
really is blind” as Irene enjoyed the opportunity to view Laurence’s face.
Koldewey connected Irene to the Septraveck instrument that the Allegros, God’s
musicians, had played to project the universe into existence. While the Allegros’ CD established
Irene’s connection to the Septraveck by planting the Allegros’ hypnotic voices in her mind, Irene
inadvertently connected Jonker to the Septraveck by drawing the shape on Jonker’s forehead so
that she could see him for the first time. Therefore, Koldewey managed to establish the
connection that Jonker and Irene now shared to the Septraveck by persuading Irene to listen to
the Allegros’ CD, which he claimed could cure her blindness, and by exploiting Irene’s desire to
capture a glimpse of Jonker’s face. Suddenly, the square wall chunk on which Irene had
previously drawn the Septraveck was wrenched from the side of the room by an unknown force.
The square television set that previously had been imbedded into the center of the wall crashed to
the carpet floor and rested as a heap of discarded wreckage and fragments. Koldewey witnessed
the movement of the wall as it mysteriously levitated to the ceiling, and when he concluded that
the floating square wall was traveling in Irene’s direction, he dived toward her with outstretched
hands. He pushed Irene away from Laurence as the massive square wall crashed down onto
Laurence’s unconscious body, and a cloud of dust and crushed plaster wandered into different
streams that attached themselves to the ceiling. It appeared that Laurence was completely
crushed by the impact of the square wall that was attracted to his body. The toilet seat on which
Irene had drawn the Septraveck rumbled fiercely in the bathroom before it was detached from
the toilet, and the circular seat resembled a Frisbee that rotated as it soared toward the square
wall. The square wall was comparable to a magnet that absorbed the force of the toilet seat when
the seat pierced through the plaster wall. The spinning seat rested in the center of the wall as
Koldewey pinned Irene to the floor so that he could enjoy the spectacle. The coiled cord that
plugged the lamp into the electric socket was pulled from the wall. The lamp was lifted from the
table and was forced into the toilet seat that was impaled through the center of the plaster wall.
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The square wall and the triangular lamp were connected to each other by the circular toilet seat.
The mesmerized Koldewey gasped for oxygen because he was inspired by the sight of the
geometric shape. Koldewey placed Irene’s head to his chest to shield her from the horrific truth
that Laurence had been sacrificed to construct the Septraveck instrument. Koldewey released
Irene from his menacing grip and reached his feet so that he could inspect the mystical
instrument that had been constructed. Koldewey conscientiously advanced toward the square
wall that had been attached to other physical objects. The square wall, the circular toilet seat,
and the triangular lamp had been connected to construct a mystical musical instrument that could
be carried despite its heavy weight. The blinded Irene crawled through the crushed plaster,
marble fragments, and other debris that invaded the carpet bristles. A trail of blood followed
Irene because her hands were lacerated by the sharp fragments, and her eyes remained directed at
the floor as she crawled toward Koldewey and the mound of demolished objects. Koldewey
cautiously placed his left palm on the triangular lamp and was propelled backwards into another
wall by a wave of energy that was emitted from the heap of discarded objects. The connected
objects were producing sparkling red radiation that forced Koldewey to maintain his distance
from the heavy mound. Irene’s bloody hands methodically maneuvered through the remaining
debris that her blind eyes could not identify. She reached a chair that she identified by
examining the wooden leg with her fingertips, and she pulled herself to her feet by exerting
pressure on the chair seat that supported her weight. Her eyes surveyed the darkness as she
twisted around to encounter the mound. The glowing radiation that the mound released entered
her eyes and caused them to slam down, and when she opened her eyes, the tingling sensation of
the radiation ceased as it condensed into water that accumulated on her eyelashes.
The curtain of dimness that clouded Irene’s vision disappeared, and she could see the
doors, the beds, the tables, and every other object that decorated the room atmosphere. Her eyes
darted around the room until they aligned with the pure evil that was expressed through
Koldewey’s eyes, and she observed Koldewey’s physical presence for the first time. Her
beaming smile was erased by the sight of the objects that had been attracted to Laurence’s body.
Irene collapsed to her knees and screamed in agony when she realized that Laurence had been
crushed by the accumulation of objects on which she had sketched the Septraveck. Irene kneeled
at the wreckage of smashed objects and grieved with tears that streamed down her face, but
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Koldewey ignored her misery because he was more concerned with the development of the
Septraveck.
As Irene concealed her face in her hands, Koldewey boldly declared, “It’s time, Irene.
You drew the shape on those three objects so that they could come together to make this
Septraveck instrument. These shapes that comprise the Septraveck represent the last remnants of
perfection. The square represents humanity’s relationship with God. The circle represents the
repetition of life, and the circle demonstrates the importance of populating the world with
children. The triangle represents the family bonds that we all must celebrate. All these shapes of
the Septraveck represent everything that humans must do to save themselves from sin. When
you drew the Septraveck on the wall, it tried to pull you into it because the Septraveck needs a
living host to build this instrument. Laurence had to be sacrificed so that the Septraveck
instrument could be built. He made the sacrifice for us all. I couldn’t let you become the
sacrifice because I need you. I need you to play the Septraveck instrument for me. The
instrument has already cured you by erasing the human sin that caused your blindness. These
objects have come together to make the instrument that the Allegros wanted me to build. They
haunted me to find someone who could create a connection with the Septraveck instrument.
They needed someone to play the instrument so that we could restore perfection and erase the sin
that causes our pain. You must play the instrument, Irene, to save us from ourselves.”
Irene cleared the dripping tears from her chin and turned to the maniacal Koldewey who
loomed over her with his shadowy presence. Irene glared at Koldewey and screamed, “Why did
this happen? What do you want?”
Koldewey continued to explain why he targeted Irene and how her blindness could be
exploited considering that her other senses and emotions had been strengthened when he
responded, “I told you, Irene. The Allegros wanted me to build this instrument. They wanted
me to find someone who could play it. It was a simple song that created the perfect universe.
Remember when you drew the Septraveck on the wall. The wall probably came into view as a
black and white image. The Septraveck is controlled by your emotions. When you felt an
emotion, the wall became an image with its blue color. The toilet seat was completely white
until you felt an emotion. The emotion caused the toilet to become the gray color. You probably
heard a noise after your emotions caused the black and white objects to gain color. You were
playing the Septraveck instrument with your emotions. You played the Septraveck with your
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emotions and caused the colors of the objects to become clear. An emotion of happiness creates
a high note from the Septraveck, and an emotion of sadness makes the Septraveck play a low
note. Now, the song that the Allegros played to create original perfection was two high notes
followed by three low notes and four more high notes.”
Irene continued to sob over the heap of physical objects that had amassed together to
create the Septraveck instrument. Koldewey watched Irene’s sorrowful display with
indifference, and he insisted that her past blindness had enhanced her other emotions that she
needed to use to play the Septraveck to restore perfection to the broken world when he
proclaimed, “Come on, little girl. Now, I need two high notes, three low notes, and four high
notes to create the song that can erase sin. You see, your handicap of blindness enhanced your
other senses. Your emotions have become stronger and more passionate than the emotions of
ordinary people. When the Septraveck erased the sin that caused your blindness, your brain
became connected to the Septraveck instrument. You are the only person with strong enough
emotions to play the Septraveck and to restore perfection to this broken world. You must save us
from this cesspool of sin. The decadence and debauchery that God has allowed for too long will
end tonight when you play the Septraveck with your powerful emotions. I know that it’s hard
right now, but I need an emotion of happiness. Just think a happy thought to play the
Septraveck. It can erase your pain. It can save you from yourself.”
When Irene refused to play the Septraveck instrument, Koldewey concluded that forceful
coercion was necessary to ensure that the perfect song would be produced. He sauntered to the
closet in Laurence’s guest bedroom and opened the door to search for any objects that could
illustrate Irene’s connection with the Septraveck. He uncovered a spherical basketball that rested
on a high shelf, and he locked the basketball beneath his shoulder before he slowly approached
the distraught Irene.
Koldewey lifted the basketball over his head and declared, “You have to play the
Septraveck, Irene, because you’re connected to it. The Septraveck also connects you to all other
geometric shapes. Your body was burning because the Septraveck connected your brain to the
lamp, so you only thought that your body had transformed into a light bulb. Now, the circle
represents the repeating pattern of the life cycle, but the perfect sphere represents freedom from
the physical world. The world is a perfect sphere, but it is full of wickedness and debauchery.
The more you embrace the money, the fleeting material possessions, and physical pleasures of
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the imperfect world, the closer you get to death. In other words, freedom from the physical
world means death.”
Koldewey outstretched the left hand that clasped the spherical basketball, and Irene’s
chest was ignited by an aching sensation that reduced her to a position on her shaking knees.
She screamed and wrenched her heart in an attempt to alleviate her misery, and when the
delighted Koldewey carried the spherical basketball closer toward her, he aggravated her
condition.
Koldewey fiercely glared at the tormented Irene and bellowed, “I know this hurts. Death
approaches, Irene. Your God can’t save you. You’re connected to the Septraveck instrument,
and you will play it unless you want to die. If the Higher Power will not save humanity from its
sin, then, humanity has to take the initiative. Now, you see how dangerous it is to be connected
to the Septraveck shape. You can see why I needed you. By using the Septraveck to erase your
blindness, I connected to you to every other shape in this universe. I watched you for so long,
Irene. I knew that you would be the only one who could play the instrument. You were the
helpless blind girl who complained to everyone about your misery. You were so sinful when
you complained about your blindness. You didn’t realize how lucky you truly are. How many
people will die tonight of cancer? How many homeless people will die tonight on the streets?
How many people suffer worse than you do? You don’t know what real pain is. You’re so
pathetic. The Septraveck erased all the human sin that caused your blindness. You were special,
my little sinner, and you were the only person whose feeble brain could create a connection with
the Septraveck. You were the only one who could rescue the human race from drowning in the
cesspool of sin. Don’t you get it? There was no ‘Felix Culpa.’ This is no hope in this broken
world. There is no justice. The good and the innocent suffer, and the wicked prosper. Those
who do not even believe in God are the wealthiest. Those who mock Him have all the power in
this world. The Higher Power is a bored spectator of the human race. He just left us alone in
this broken world of pain and suffering. We have to save ourselves if He won’t help us. It’s the
only way.”
Irene’s muscles were paralyzed as Koldewey diminished the distance between the
spherical basketball and her, and Koldewey scoffed at the sight of the veins that bulged beneath
Irene’s skin. After Irene squealed in agony, Koldewey bruised her forehead with a kick and
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pinned her to the floor by positioning his foot on her spine. Koldewey extended the basketball
closer to Irene’s skull, and the basketball intensified Irene’s misery as her brain throbbed.
She exhausted all her remaining strength when she shrieked, “Okay, Koldewey. I’ll play
it. I’ll play it. Please, I just don’t want to die.”
The basketball plummeted to the carpet of jagged debris when Koldewey received his
desired response, and he helped Irene to her feet so that she could fulfill his request. She
concluded that Koldewey was absolutely insane and darted through the entrance of Laurence’s
bedroom into the hallway, but after she entered another room, her eyes examined the spherical
light bulb of the spinning ceiling fan. The excruciating pain to which Koldewey had exposed her
returned to her chest because the Septraveck connected her to all other geometric shapes. All
spherical objects eventually would trigger Irene’s death, and after she violently plummeted to the
floor, Koldewey slowly loomed behind her and watched her as she crawled away from the
spherical ceiling fan.
Koldewey smiled and declared, “You’ll always be connected to the Septraveck that you
built for me, Irene. How will you ever be able to do anything in this life? You can’t even look at
a spherical object without suffering. How can you ever be expected to live without me? If you
touch a spherical object in this world, you will experience instant death. Now, come on back to
the guest room and play the Septraveck since you will never be able to do anything else. I can
exploit so many connections that you have with the Septraveck. Jonker’s dead because of you.
He was doing just fine until you showed up. I know that you don’t want to die, too. Don’t make
me kill you. You don’t want to face God’s judgment, yet, with all your sins. Play the
Septraveck, and let the end come. The Higher Power can’t stop me because He gave me free
will. The Higher Power gave humans unlimited free will, and the Septraveck is the ultimate
indication of our free will. The shape of the Septraveck is the key to the restoration of
perfection. God gave us the Septraveck shape to test the limits of our free will. The power of
the Septraveck has been waiting for us since the beginning of time. It was waiting for someone
brave and crazy enough to challenge God and to accept the ultimate test of the limits of free will
for humanity. With my unlimited free will, I will restore perfection. You will play the original
song that the Allegros sang to project the universe into existence. With my free will, I will
destroy the Higher Power to replace Him. I will seize His throne. Now, you can see that there is
no hope or justice in this world, but there will be in the next. I promise you that I will be a just
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God after you restore perfection with the Septraveck. I know that you have committed sins, but I
will judge you fairly, Irene. If you restore perfection, I will not condemn you for your past sins.
I will forgive you, and I will save you from your sins with the Septraveck. You have my word.
You will walk in my light when I illuminate this forsaken world. I will free the human race from
this sinful prison in which He has trapped us. My light will open your eyes.”
Irene’s heavy breathing continued as she wrenched her palpitating heart, and she
remained paralyzed in a position on her shaking knees as her muscles throbbed and spasmed in
unison.
Despite the tremendous agony that transmitted shivers and aches across her spinal cord,
she still managed to scream, “I can’t do it. I can’t play that thing. I won’t change the world.”
Koldewey gingerly walked to his helpless victim and muttered under his putrid breath,
“Yes, Irene; you can play the Septraveck. You have the ability to restore perfection, and you
will do it.”
Irene struggled through the paralysis that pervaded through her entire body, and she
mustered enough strength to lift her heavy head until her eyes identified the spherical light bulb
of the ceiling fan. The light bulb intensified the agony that consumed her entire body, and as she
glared at the spherical light bulb, the shrill shriek of the Septraveck played inside her fragile
mind. As the sound of the Septraveck continued to penetrate her psyche, she attempted to clasp
her hands across her ears, but her paralysis prevented her from lifting her perspiring palms from
the floor. She was unable to shift her focus away from the spherical light bulb, and the sight of
the light bulb distorted her vision until her physical surroundings transformed into blackness.
Koldewey recognized that the piercing sound of the Septraveck was playing inside Irene’s mind,
and when he concluded that Irene’s paralysis prevented her from turning away from the light
bulb, he leaned down to examine her eyeballs. Irene’s eyes could not focus on the images in her
environment, and her blind pupils simply shifted across the white clouds of her sclera.
Irene requested assistance by bellowing, “Please, help me. This thing’s playing inside
my head, and I can’t see again.” Koldewey realized that Irene’s mental connection to the
Septraveck remained active and that the sight of the spherical light bulb had caused Irene’s
blindness to return.
He maniacally laughed at Irene’s misfortune, and he sarcastically declared, “Oh Irene,
who turned out the lights? I told you that it was dangerous to be connected to the Septraveck
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because it connects you to all the other dangerous geometric shapes in the universe. Your mental
connection to the Septraveck has restored your blindness, little girl. You’re blind again because
you had to be selfish.”
The presence of the spherical light bulb had paralyzed the muscles in Irene’s body, and
she was unable to distance herself from the light bulb. Koldewey interlocked his fingers across
her waist and pulled her stiff body from the floor until she reached a standing position on her
feet. Koldewey placed his arm around Irene’s neck and guided her away from the light bulb in
the hallway, and as Irene distanced herself from the light bulb, her paralysis slowly subsided.
The tingling sensation in Irene’s body was replaced by the feeling that she regained in her
muscles and nerves. When Irene could control the movement in her muscles, she slapped
Koldewey away from her with the back of her hand. Although Irene had distanced herself from
the spherical light bulb, she still remained shackled in mental darkness. She struggled to
maintain her vertical balance, and after her left leg was interlocked behind her right leg, she
stumbled around to survey the spinning canvas of darkness in her distorted visual spectrum.
Koldewey reacted to Irene’s display of helplessness with amusement, and he watched as
she stumbled around the hallway and frantically bobbed her head back and forth.
When Irene accidentally collided into Koldewey, he scoffed and declared, “You think
that I’m the Devil, don’t you, Irene? Well, you can’t kill the Devil, my defenseless, little blind
girl.”
Irene became enraged by Koldewey’s mockery, and she clenched her fists in preparation
to battle him. Despite her mental darkness, she identified Koldewey’s position by following his
voice, and as she approached Koldewey, she wildly swung her fists in his direction. He calmly
stepped aside from Irene’s path, and he then extended his foot to trip her to the hard wooden
floor. Her fists previously had been closed into tight fists, so when she stumbled to the floor, she
was unable to outstretch her palms to protect herself. Her face violently smashed into the floor,
and bloody scrapes were produced on her hands and knees as Koldewey laughed and loomed
over her in her mental darkness. The frustrated blind girl placed pressure on her bruised, bloody
palms to pull herself to her feet. After she detected Koldewey’s raucous laugh, she used her
perceptive ears to follow Koldewey’s voice, and she lunged at him with additional swinging
punches. Her hands and knees received further damage after they returned to the hard floor, and
despite her blindness, Irene was involved in many more attempts to strike Koldewey that
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concluded with her on the floor. She stood in front of Koldewey and squinted in an ineffectual
effort to peer through the dark mental curtain that veiled her currently blind eyes.
The sweat that tumbled down her red cheeks indicated her frustration, and as Koldewey
was mesmerized by Irene’s shifting eyeballs, he declared, “Come on, Irene; hit me. Fight me.
Avenge Jonker’s death.”
After Irene endured Koldewey’s taunting, she aimlessly charged forward in an attempt to
locate him in the darkness, but Koldewey maintained the proper distance from the incensed blind
girl as she frantically slapped the cold air. Her fists were propelled wildly through the air in an
attempt to strike Koldewey in the darkness, and he positioned his palm on her bloody forehead to
restrain her as her fists swayed in a repetitive pattern. He whistled a serene song to mock her
futile effort as she swung her fists and as the booming cacophony of the Septraveck continued to
play and to bounce from one side of her mental canvas to the other. Koldewey gingerly stepped
backwards to avoid Irene’s feeble slaps, and when her dangling arms rested at her side, he
clasped her throat to hold her in place and to prevent her losing her precarious balance. As his
fingernails scratched her throat and choked her, he pulled back his left elbow until his left hand
rested on his right shoulder blade. He retracted his left hand with forceful momentum, and he
clouted her face with the back of his left hand before he maliciously slapped her with his right
hand. He punched her to crush her nose, and droplets of blood trickled from her nose and slid
down her lips. Irene’s tongue tasted her blood, and in a successive pattern, Koldewey repeatedly
slapped her with his palm and the back of his hands to produce red bruises and welts that
zigzagged across her face. During Koldewey’s battery of Irene, she sensed the physical pain that
his assault had caused, but her blind eyes could not identify Koldewey’s hands as they extended
through the cold air to smack her. Koldewey smiled at the sight of Irene’s bruised complexion,
and he tightened his grip of her throat to prevent her from crumbling backwards to the hard
wooden floor of the hallway.
His hands swiftly traveled through the air to continue the assault, and as Koldewey’s
punches caused Irene’s head to retract violently back and forth, he bellowed, “Real pain hurts,
doesn’t it, Irene? You complained about your blindness for so long, but now, you know what
real pain is. This is the pain that millions of dying people feel everyday. You’re so pathetic and
fragile. I could kill you so easily. God’s going to take us; we’re dead already. Our fates have
been predetermined; we’ve already been condemned by His unfair judgment.”
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Irene’s glazed eyes turned away from Koldewey and glared up at the ceiling, but her
blind eyes detected only the blackness that her handicapped mind relayed to her. Koldewey’s
tight grip fastened Irene in a standing position to prevent her from stumbling backward, and he
violently pushed her to the unforgiving wooden floor.
Irene soared backwards and rested on the dusty floor of the hallway, and after she tasted
blood in the back of her throat, she slammed down her eyes in agony. Koldewey sauntered to
Irene’s side, and when she opened her eyes, the shimmering light of her physical surroundings
glistened down into her eyes. Irene had achieved the proper distance from the spherical light
bulb to alleviate her misery and to prevent her death. Her mental connection to the Septraveck
shape remained intact and active, and the blurriness of her environment became clear because
her vision had been restored after she distanced herself from the spherical light bulb. Her pupils
no longer drifted across the clouds of her sclera, and she now was able to focus on single images
that decorated her visual spectrum. Koldewey peered down at her, and although her eyes were
forced to perceive his wicked grin again, her eyes quickly drifted away from Koldewey to focus
on the wall and the ceiling. Koldewey instructed her to return to the guest bedroom to play the
Septraveck instrument that she had constructed, and he retrieved the spherical basketball to
persuade with force. Irene rapidly readjusted to her restored vision as the beaming light caused
her pupils to contract, and she slowly crawled across the floor to escape from Koldewey on her
bloody hands and knees. She squinted through the light that radiated down from the ceiling into
her eyes, and after a bloody trail followed her during her frantic crawl across the hallway, she
managed to reach her knees. Koldewey outstretched his hand to frighten her with the spherical
basketball, and she surrendered and rose from her knees to return to the guest bedroom. She
realized that she never could escape from Koldewey because she eventually would encounter a
spherical geometric shape in the outside world. She slowly wandered through the entrance of the
guest bedroom, and her newly acquired limp nearly caused her to tumble to the floor. Despite
her misery, she still maintained her necessary distance from Koldewey as he threatened her with
the spherical basketball that that would guarantee her instant death.
Irene sensed that Koldewey, her fanatical teacher at the Home for the Blind, still was
concealing emotional scars that he longed to convey to another individual in whom he could
confide.
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Her fingertips glided across her face and caused her fresh bruises to throb, and as the
surrounding light beamed down into her eyes, she peered at Koldewey and declared, “There has
to be a better reason for you to do this, Mr. Koldewey. Why are you really doing this? What do
you really hope to accomplish with all this?”
Koldewey respected the courage that Irene had displayed in her gentle interrogation, and
he was emotionally touched by her poignant words. He stared directly at her to provide her with
the respectable eye contact that she deserved. He revealed that he was dying from terminal
cancer and accused Irene of not appreciating her life when he bellowed, “You’ve experienced
my violent passion, child, and you now know how much the restoration of perfection means to
me. Let me explain myself; I’m not crazy. You have a right to know. You see, I’m a dying
man; I’ve been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. I’ve been given my death sentence by
God, and I’ve got nothing left to lose. Cancer is just one of the many horrible diseases that the
human race unleashed onto itself when we corrupted the perfect world with our sins. Doctors
gave me only a few weeks to live, and my time is running out. I’m in so much pain right now.
I’m only forty-two years old, and I had so much to give to this world. Now, the Higher Power
wants to claim my life with cancer. What did I do to Him to deserve this? I could have given
the world so much. I could have been His greatest creation, but God is greedy and power-
hungry. I will not let Him take me. He doesn’t understand what he’s doing, and He’s so
unreasonable. He just wants to control and to take all of us. We have free will, but He still
enslaves us. Our sins corrupted the perfect world with disease, but He uses the disease to claim
us. I will not be enslaved. With the Septraveck, I can overthrow the Higher Power, and I can
judge humanity fairly for its sins. When humans originally corrupted the perfect world with sin,
every liquid, solid, and gas in our environment became imperfect. The objects in our world
became tarnished by sin, but the shapes of these objects never changed. The shapes of these
objects represent what the objects once were and what they could have been because the objects
could have remained perfect. Despite our sins, the shapes of the tarnished objects never
changed. I looked for perfection for so long, and I found it in the shapes that compose our
surroundings because these shapes are the last remnants of perfection. Perfection is elusive, but
perfection is where you find it. You can find perfection in a square, a circle, and a triangle if you
look hard enough. In your case, you can find perfection in a wall, a toilet seat, and a lamp. The
shapes are all that matters. They represent what our imperfect world could have been. The rest
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of humanity may see a dirty toilet seat, but I see that the toilet seat could have been perfect. We
all could have been perfect, but God let us corrupt the world with our sins. The Allegros used
the Septraveck instrument in the beginning to play the perfect world into existence. The shape of
the Septraveck instrument determined the melody, the pitch, the sound, and everything else that
was important about the original song that played the world into existence. We were once
musical notes in the perfect song of the Allegros. Now, we are slaves to God in an uncertain
world where His diseases can claim us without warning. Please, Irene, help me fight Him. I
valued my life before He decided to take it away. You once complained about your blindness,
but at least, you’re alive and healthy. While others are slowly dying from terminal illnesses and
old age, you’re taking your breaths for granted. Your selfish breaths could have been used to
save others who appreciate their lives. You’ve seen a vision of God, and yet, you probably still
refuse to accept His existence. You now can redeem yourself; make up for your past selfishness
and sins by helping me. Don’t let the Higher Power take me with cancer. I’m dying, Irene; we
have to do this, now. I’m so scared about His unfair judgment. He already has predetermined
our lives for us. I’m only human; it’s in my biological nature to commit sins. You can’t fight
instinct; you can’t fight biology. I can’t help it, and He’s still going to condemn me for my sin,
something that I can’t even control. I want to save the world from Him and this cesspool of sin.
Please, play the Septraveck instrument, and restore perfection to the broken world. The physical
world is falling apart. Help me put the pieces of the broken world back together. It’s time to
disturb the universe. Why are you too blind to see that?”
Irene wiped her nose and forehead to clear the blood and perspiration from her bright red
face, and despite Koldewey’s convincing rambling, she still believed that he was delusional. She
adhered to Koldewey’s instructions and focused her eyes on the mound of connected objects that
represented a completed Septraveck instrument. Because Irene still lamented Laurence’s death,
the torment conquered her mind and prevented her from experiencing the emotion of joy that
Koldewey demanded. She yearned to cleanse her mind of the resentment that she experienced
after the deceitful Koldewey sacrificed Laurence to construct the Septraveck instrument. Irene
accepted that Koldewey’s insane rambling was truthful and deeply exhaled before she continued
her conversation with Koldewey.
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She glared at him and asserted, “If I play this thing with my emotions, then, you have to
help everyone. You can cure all illnesses by erasing all the sin in the world. Promise me that we
can save everyone.”
Koldewey hesitated with an intense exhalation as he contemplated his response, and he
breached the silence by declaring, “So many people are dying in this world, Irene. How many
people died last night of starvation? How many people will die today of cancer? The world is so
unfair. Innocent children suffer and die while sinful old men achieve more success as they mock
God. The world lives in the darkness of sin. This sin causes the horrific illnesses that the Higher
Power uses to take our loved ones and beautiful children from us. Now, I will open humanity’s
eyes to save them from themselves and their illnesses. Unfortunately, some people can’t be
saved, Irene. Some people are too foolish to understand what I’m doing. Many do not deserve
to be saved from death. They are too corrupt to be saved. They deserve their pain; they deserve
to die slowly from their illnesses. Those who follow me will be saved by the music of the
Septraveck. Those who oppose me will not be saved by its music. It’s my job to decide who
will live and who will die. The Allegros have chosen me to save the world. Let my judgment
come.”
Irene could recognize the selfishness in Koldewey’s deep voice, and she understood that
he had exploited blind students for his own gain when she responded, “You really are crazy.
You pretended to help blind victims in that home for over twenty years. You exploited my
blindness so that you could build this instrument. You connected my brain to this thing and to
all the shapes in the universe. You killed Laurence. You would use this instrument for your own
purpose. You would play God yourself. You would choose who will live and who will die.
You think that you know better than God does. I can’t play this instrument. I won’t play this
stupid thing for you.”
Irene’s eyes concentrated on the Septraveck instrument, and she embraced her hatred of
Koldewey as she influenced the instrument with her emotions. Her eyes remained fascinated by
the Septraveck, but Irene ignored Koldewey’s instructions and refused to experience an insincere
feeling of happiness. She telepathically communicated her rage into the enormous Septraveck
instrument. The wall chunk, the toilet seat, and the lamp began to rumble after they received
Irene’s influential transmission. Koldewey appeared behind Irene because he was frightened by
the Septraveck’s reaction to her emotions. He would never acknowledge that he feared Irene
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because she had established an enduring connection with the Septraveck and with all other
geometric shapes in her surroundings.
He interlocked his contorted fingers across Irene’s trembling shoulder and declared, “I
hope that you made the right decision, Irene. The Septraveck is reacting to whatever emotion
you just gave it. If that emotion was not happiness, then, you’re not playing the song that will
create perfection. I don’t even know what will happen if you infected the Septraveck with some
other emotion.”
A guttural buzzing that was released from the Septraveck indicated that the mystical
instrument was playing, but Koldewey realized that the Septraveck was not playing the high note
that would be generated by the emotion of joy.
As the Septraveck rumbled in the center of the room, Koldewey became hysterical and
screamed, “That’s not the right note. What did you do? You were supposed to play a high note
with happiness. You were supposed to be my Esther. You weren’t supposed to remain silent;
you were supposed to use the Septraveck’s music to bring people deliverance from their pain.”
Irene shifted her focus away from the vibrating Septraveck and braced herself for the
consequences of her decision to infect the instrument with the emotion of hatred. The amplitude
of the Septraveck’s drone intensified and shoved Irene and Koldewey several feet backwards to
the carpet. Irene covered her aching ears as the agonizing cacophony diminished. She elevated
her head to observe the seven purple diamonds that were fastened to the carpet, and the glass
diamonds were scattered across the room in a circular pattern that surrounded Irene and
Koldewey.
Koldewey analyzed the seven diamonds that had been produced by the Septraveck and
proclaimed, “Well, Irene, you obviously didn’t play the Septraveck with happiness. I recorded
the voices of the Allegros for a reason. You were supposed to follow their instructions to build
this instrument. The Septraveck erased the sin that caused your blindness, and this is how you
repay me, a dying man. Now, you’ve broken the Septraveck into its purest forms. The diamond
is a shape that represents incorruptibility.”
Koldewey raised his elongated fingers and pointed to the diamond ring that glistened on
his left hand. He continued, “The diamond is a symbol of pure, perfect commitment. Perfection
is where you find it, little girl. With these seven diamonds, you’ve unlocked the power of this
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seven-sided shape. The Septraveck instrument that you built remains intact, but each of these
seven crystal diamonds represents one side of the Septraveck.”
Irene meandered away from the wall, the toilet seat, and the lamp that constructed the
Septraveck, and she no longer feared the instrument because she controlled all its functions with
her emotions. The seven seas, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the seven deadly sins,
and the seven major musical notes were contained in each of the diamonds, and Irene discovered
that her emotion had unlocked the significance of the number “seven.” While Irene observed
King Nebuchadnezzar’s gorgeous Hanging Gardens of Babylon in one of the crystal diamonds,
Koldewey retrieved the spherical basketball, but Irene maintained her necessary distance from
the maniacal Koldewey as he slowly approached the seven diamonds. Koldewey commanded
Irene to play the song that would cure sicknesses by eradicating sin, but Irene stubbornly refused
and charged toward the Septraveck in the center of the room. Koldewey examined the seven
diamonds and noticed that Laurence Jonker was drowning inside the diamond that stored the
water of the seven seas. The Septraveck had used Laurence as a human host to transform into a
musical instrument, and Laurence currently was drowning inside the Septraveck as the
instrument drained his energy.
Koldewey extended his finger to the individual diamond and alerted Irene by screaming,
“Leave the Septraveck alone. It’s powering itself by slowly draining the life out of your
boyfriend over there. The Septraveck instrument is a living organism, and it needs human
sacrifices to maintain its playing power. Jonker’s as good as dead. Stay away from it, or it will
take you, too.”
Irene was no longer concerned with the Septraveck that she had constructed when
Koldewey informed her that Laurence was still alive. She yearned to rescue Laurence from the
aquatic abyss in which he was suffocating, but she remained cautious that Koldewey would harm
her by exploiting her connection to all geometric shapes. Irene dashed toward the mound of
objects that comprised the Septraveck instrument, and after she locked the heavy instrument
under her arm, she charged to the individual diamond inside which Laurence was being drowned
by the seven seas. The weight of the Septraveck instrument provided Irene with a burden that
nearly caused her to collapse, but she was committed to the objective of rescuing the innocent
college student from approaching death. She carried the Septraveck instrument to the diamond,
and when she placed her palm on the diamond, she was transported from Laurence’s demolished
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guest bedroom to the horrifying sea that imprisoned Laurence. Koldewey was astonished that
Irene had been absorbed into the diamond of the seven seas, and he placed his hand on the
diamond so that he could pursue Irene to retrieve his treasured Septraveck instrument from the
sea.
The waves of water pounded into Irene’s face and caused her eyes to burn and itch when
she plunged into the sea, and she carried the heavy Septraveck that forced her to sink rapidly
through the bubbling vortex. She concluded that the burdensome Septraveck instrument was
expediting her descent through the foamy seawater, so she abandoned the instrument and
allowed it to sink. She bent her elbows and jolted her arms back and forth in a challenging
struggle to reach the suffocating Laurence. Koldewey was transported to the sea where he
snatched the sinking Septraveck instrument, and he swam under Irene to seize her leg so that he
could pull her to definite death. In a frenzy, she slapped her hands through the water as her
descent continued, and Koldewey paddled upward to pummel Irene with the heavy Septraveck
instrument. Koldewey gripped Irene’s throat and bruised her face by repeatedly clouting her
with the Septraveck instrument, but she resisted his torturous assault and struck him in the
stomach with her right knee. She recalled that her enhanced emotions controlled the playing
power of the Septraveck instrument, so she stared through the water that invaded her eyes and
concentrated on the Septraveck that Koldewey possessed. After Irene injected the Septraveck
with an emotion, the instrument emitted a guttural shriek that caused Koldewey to suffer by
invading his mind, and blood poured from Koldewey’s ears in response to the playing of the
Septraveck instrument. In his misery, Koldewey relinquished his grasp of the Septraveck
instrument and sank toward the watery depths, so Irene regained her composure and thrashed her
hands wildly to reach Laurence. She propelled herself upward through the frigid abyss and
wrapped her hands around Laurence’s waist as she continued her paddling toward the surface.
She captured Laurence and approached the sunlight that radiated above the water, but her mind
was inundated with the dread that she could not escape from the psychotic Koldewey.
The Septraveck instrument that Koldewey had dropped was reactivated by Irene’s
emotional concerns. The instrument had healed Irene’s blindness by removing the human sin
that triggered her ailment, but her current emotions motivated the Septraveck instrument to
unleash the human sin that it had stored. The melodic song that the sinking Septraveck played
was contaminated with human sin, and the sin was interpreted as a brilliant red tornado that
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whirled toward Irene and Laurence. Irene’s terror was exacerbated by the physical manifestation
of human sin that pursued her, and her emotions simply stimulated the Septraveck to increase the
melody that powered the tornado. The tornado swirled across Irene’s leg and propelled her into
the rocky underwater cave that was located near the shimmering surface. Irene and Laurence
violently crashed into the rocky formation and slowly slithered down its piercing edges. Irene’s
emotions dictated the vigorous melody of the Septraveck instrument, so she cleared her mental
canvas of all pervading thoughts before she paddled down to retrieve Laurence as he scraped
down the boulders. Many emotional responses to Irene’s dire situation attempted to breach her
mind, but she blurred the swirl of personal feelings and sensations into an incoherent
transmission so that the Septraveck instrument could not interpret any of her emotions.
The melodic tornado of human sin reminded Irene that her connection with the
Septraveck granted her access to the significance of other geometric shapes in her environment.
She attached her lacerated hands to the jagged rock, and during her climb up the protruding
boulders, she recognized that the boulders to which she was hanging were shaped like four-sided
squares. After she recalled that the square symbolized the relationship between humans and
God, she feverishly sculpted the complex Septraveck shape into the stony surface with her
fingernail. After she had unlocked the significance of the square, a fisherman’s enormous hook
plunged from the sunlight into the water. The glistening hook whirled toward the helpless
Laurence as his lungs were filled with water, and Irene grappled the boulders to continue her
climb toward the radiant sunlight. Her hands were bloody and bruised, so she dropped several
times during her climb across the jagged stones of the cave. Laurence appeared lifeless as he
tumbled down the rocky crag, so Irene abandoned her climb and paddled downward to connect
Laurence’s shirt collar to the pointed tip of the fisherman’s hook. She pierced the sharp hook
through the fabric of Laurence’s shirt collar, and the fisherman’s hook rapidly lifted Laurence
through the water and toward the sunlight.
Irene eagerly reached for Laurence’s leg as the fisherman’s hook pulled him toward the
surface, but Koldewey had recovered the Septraveck instrument and splashed under Irene. He
yanked her leg and pulled her toward a watery grave, but the spinning tornado of human sin
captured Koldewey inside its funnel and slammed him into the rocky cave. The tornado zoomed
across Irene’s body and caused her to crash into the rocky formation where Koldewey continued
to pummel her with the Septraveck instrument. The physical projections of the seven deadly sins
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were stored inside the eye of the tornado, and several hands that represented human gluttony
emerged from the tornado to clasp Irene’s foot. The tornado shredded the cavernous rock and
caused an avalanche of boulders to stream down toward Irene and Koldewey. Irene frantically
maneuvered sideways back and forth to avoid the boulders of the collapsing cave. She peered
upward through the blue bubbling liquid that infected her sensitive eyes, and she recognized that
the hundreds of raining boulder fragments had been shredded into the shapes of perfect spheres.
An agonizing tingle returned to her spinal cord as the muscles and nerves in her body were
conquered by paralysis that the spherical boulders had caused. The water was stained with red
blood, and when the avalanche ceased, Irene and Koldewey were pinned to the cave wall by two
gigantic boulders. Irene’s legs were pinned into a stationary position by the boulder while
Koldewey’s left arm was completely crushed by the boulder that restrained his movement. As
Irene prepared for water to invade her lungs, her eyes glanced upward to the sunlight that
Laurence had reached after he was pulled to safety by the fisherman’s hook.
Koldewey relinquished the Septraveck instrument and allowed it to plummet to the sea
floor after he was shackled to the cave wall by the boulder that had smashed his hand. While the
panic-stricken Koldewey struggled to free himself in a futile effort, Irene prayed to God and
pleaded with Him to rescue the two hopeless sinners from their own sins. Irene and Koldewey
listened to the sickening sound of human sin that continued to play from the Septraveck at the
bottom of the sea.
Even as water invaded his lungs by pouring into his gaping mouth, Koldewey managed to
choke out, “He won’t take me. He won’t take me” during his desperate effort to free his hand
from the boulder that pinned him to the cave wall.
The two humans realistically would have drowned inside the watery prison after several
minutes, but the Septraveck instrument was powering itself by slowly sucking the life from their
bodies. Irene attached her lacerated hand to a jagged boulder on the side of the underwater cave,
and the rock fragments that surrounded Irene were sucked through the water into the spinning
tornado of human sin. Irene’s straightened legs flailed back and forth to produce ripples in the
seawater, and a tiny rock of flying debris pelted Irene in the forehead as her legs smacked the
water. Her blood floated through the bubbling water, and Irene gasped for oxygen and waited
for approaching death until her eyes were attracted to the diamond ring on Laurence’s hand that
was not trapped beneath the debris. She recalled that the diamond embodied purity and the
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absence of corruption as the twisting tornado of sin prepared to swallow the two humans who
were struggling for survival. Irene extended her hand toward the glistening diamond ring and
wildly thrashed her arm in an attempt to reach the elusive shape that could guarantee her survival
inside the Septraveck. She seized Koldewey’s hand and used her bloodstained fingernail to
scratch the shape of the Septraveck into the diamond ring on his finger. She screamed as the
tornado scarred her torso, but she remained committed to completing her drawing of the
Septraveck onto the diamond ring. Her bloody fingernail slashed left and right in several
directions to form the lines and ninety-degree angles of a square, a circle, and a triangle, and she
connected the three shapes with an imaginary line that she etched across the blank spectrum of
space. The geometric design was completed on the diamond. Because Irene and Koldewey were
shackled inside a giant diamond crystal, the activation of Koldewey’s small diamond ring with
the Septraveck shape created a chain reaction that also stimulated the larger diamond crystal.
The chain reaction of reacting diamonds released a harmonious blast of music that eliminated all
the sinful contamination inside the sea. Koldewey’s wicked desires to enslave humanity with the
music of the Septraveck represented inner sins that the diamond destroyed. Koldewey perished
in an explosion when the activation of the diamond caused the Septraveck instrument to
exterminate his inner sins. The tornado of sins that the Septraveck’s music had projected into
reality also was extinguished by the powerful diamond.
The Septraveck instrument was located at the sea floor, but the instrument could not exist
without the vigor that was provided by a living organism. The Septraveck had attempted to
drown Laurence inside its sea to achieve its playing power, but the fisherman’s hook had rescued
Laurence from the watery prison before the Septraveck was able to murder him. The instrument
that was composed of a square wall, a circular toilet seat, and a triangular lamp shattered because
it could not exist without the sacrifice of Laurence’s life. The seven diamonds into which the
Septraveck instrument had been divided by Irene’s emotions exploded into thousands of glass
fragments. When the seven diamonds simultaneously exploded inside Laurence’s guest
bedroom, Irene and Laurence were released from the seven seas, and they slid down an
enormous avalanche of water that streamed across the floor. Irene and Laurence disappeared
under the engulfing flood when the water of the seven seas reached the bedroom wall. The
waves carried the two victims until they reached the plaster wall, and the branches of water that
extended from the current smashed through the wall. The wall was completely demolished as
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the relentless current pierced a gaping hole through the plaster and continued to sweep across the
second story of Laurence’s home. Irene and Laurence extended their necks upward in a
desperate attempt to ensure that their heads remained above the menacing streams, but the two
victims disappeared again beneath the stream when the water engulfed their drenched bodies.
Laurence frantically kicked his legs and thrashed his arms in several rotations, and he splashed
his hands through the stream that carried him toward the staircase. Irene remained composed as
the current propelled her through the air, and she restrained the hysterical Laurence by clasping
him to her waist before the stream crashed into the staircase. The stream transported Irene and
Laurence down the coarse steps, but the terrified Laurence remained fastened to Irene’s waist as
the two victims bounced into the wood of each step. The current engulfed the two victims and
the staircase, and during the steep descent, Irene and Laurence violently bounced against the
fourth step of the staircase. A cylindrical formation of water emerged from the stream and
resembled an enormous human palm that propelled the two victims from the fourth step.
Laurence and Irene were released from the current before they soared above the three remaining
steps that followed the fourth step from which they were launched. The stream of the seven seas
chased the two victims as they soared through the air, and Irene and Laurence collided into the
concrete of the floor at the bottom of the demolished staircase.
The water swept across the concrete floor and crashed through the door of the once
beautiful home as Irene and Laurence frantically rolled away from the menacing flood. The
stream crashed through the front door and fashioned a dent into the side of Laurence’s home, so
Irene and Laurence rolled away from the current as its water poured through the dent and swept
across the outside lawn. The two victims remained nearly paralyzed on the concrete floor that
had been drenched by the water of the seven seas, and Irene and Laurence were unable to walk
as the current completely poured through the enormous dent. Irene and Laurence both choked on
the water that had invaded their lungs, and their hands were sliced by the glass of the seven
diamonds that had exploded. The seawater that covered the floor caused Irene and Laurence to
shiver intensely as they crawled through the blood, jagged glass, porcelain, and plaster fragments
that the current had transported. The Septraveck instrument had played the disturbing sound of
human sin, and the sound would haunt Irene and Jonker for the rest of their lives as they
remained nearly paralyzed on the bloodstained concrete floor. Irene sensed the dripping of water
droplets that plummeted from the staircase to the concrete floor, but the beating of her palpitating
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heart overwhelmed the sound of the dripping water. The Septraveck instrument had played the
disturbing sound of human sin, and the “sound of sin” would haunt Irene Duvalier and Laurence
Jonker for the rest of their brief lives in the broken world.
THE END