THE PHASE HAS ENDED EARLY
Oztra (4) VashtaNeurotic, rdrivera2003, snowy801, damian
Damian (1) Oztra
End votes: 3/3 Vash, snowy801, rdrivera
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*It was Easter Sunday, the Amish gathered at the chapel to pay respect to the recent fallen*
*Old Jonah stands at the altar*
Old Jonah: Ordnung! Do unto others what is done to you.
Common misconception is that when a man harms another; we feel it is our way- our need to do the same.
When I was little a neighbor boy would chase me and hit me. He was stronger than me. He knew I could not fight back. I began sneaking into his familys yard at night and stealing his wooden toys. I never felt bad until I was older and the neighbor boy was an adult. He fell on hard times, he was shunned. He had his beard removed and he was sent away from this place never to return.
When I took a trip to Dayton to study the law, I found him. He was a mechanic working on cars. I was amazed.
Even though he spent all his time here in an amish community with nothing motorized he applied himself and learned how to survive in the modern world most of us fear.
I tell you all this because the time has come to abandon this town...
*Enter Bowman, Abigail and Isaac with Hannah*
Hannah: Let me go.
Abigail: Silence! Jonah, the evil spirit resides in this girl. She is Jebediah.
Old Jonah: Is this true Hannah?
Isaac: We caught her lurking by the Mill.
Hannah: I swear to you all, on my fathers name I am not this ghost you speak of.
Old Jonah: You must understand the necessity to practice caution. If we kill her and she isnt the Ghost the town will lose faith in us.
Isaac: It is as open and shut of a case we will find Jonah. She was with Ezekiel the night before we found him. They were... doing unholy things.
Hannah: We were kissing! That is not unholy. Oh for crying out loud.
Isaac: Only kissing. Yea right. You placed your evil hands on him and haunted him!
Hannah: My hands are warm to the touch!
Bowman: Hang her in the square. Let us be done with this.
Old Jonah: Very well. She shall hang.
*The congregation files out slowly and Hannah is noosed on the gallows.*
Old Jonah: On this occasion, being Easter I will give you last words.
Hannah: I have nothing to say about being a Ghost. I loved Ezekiel. I love my family. When I look at you I see a deadness in your eyes. I feel a cold air in your voices.
Abigail: You think one of us is the ghost?
Hannah: *pointing at Jonah* I think it is him.
Bowman: This is why we dont give last words. *pulls the crank and Hannah squirms to escape the noose*
Isaac: They say Old Jonah can see the spirits of those haunted leave a dying person.
Bowman: Jonah do you see anything?
Old Jonah: *squinting* It was said that a happy soul cannot wait to leave a vessel when it knows heaven awaits.
Abigail: Heaven didnt accept my husband and his friends. How fast does a soul leave a body of a crooked worm like herschberg?
Old Jonah: Hard to say. It is an inexact science. Alas we have killed an innocent girl.
Bowman: What?
Isaac: She was not the ghost?
Old Jonah: Not Ghost, Not Haunted and No blood on her hands. Her soul is at peace now and we are butchers. *To the congregation* Gather your belongings and leave this place before you and your children become marked. Our time is nearly up.
Oztra has died, he was Hannah the Vanilla Townie.