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**Content Warning:**
This story contains themes that may be sensitive or uncomfortable for some readers, including complex family dynamics, religious symbolism, and mature content. Please proceed with care and discretion if you choose to engage with fictional material exploring these topics.
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Zion and Leah became step-siblings after their parents remarried. Zion, who met Leah’s mother, Grace, when Leah was an infant, quickly came to see Grace as more than just a stepmother; she became the loving figure he had always missed in his own mother. However, after the death of his father and Grace’s illness, Leah was sent to live with his uncle and the siblings were separated.
Ten years later, they meet again in a monastery: Zion has become a priest and Leah a nun. Soon after their reunion, Leah begins to have disturbing, vivid dreams every night in which a demon visits her and rapes her. Seeking solace, Leah ventures into the slums to an abandoned house, only to be raped by a stranger. Unable to bear the torment in both her dreams and reality, she confides her experiences to Zion.
“Where did the demon touch you?”
“Everywhere…”
Leah replies, confessing her guilt and shame. Zion proposes a cleansing ritual, saying, “Now let me cleanse you. Open your legs for me.”
Trusting his words, Leah believes this is a way to cleanse her soul of the demon’s impurity. As she submits to the ritual, she sees her brother not as a man but as a holy servant of the divine, and herself as a sinner in need of purification.
Night after night, in the secluded sanctuary, Leah opens herself to Zion, believing it to be a sacred act, a ritual to purify her body. But as the encounters continue, Leah becomes aware of her growing desire for him as a man and struggles to reconcile her feelings.
Can Leah find forgiveness for her desires and will the divine grant her peace?
