Out of Darkness (9 page)
Authors: Ruth Price
"I got it at a show. It's a revolver. I've only fired it a few times at the range." Samuel shoved the gun barrel first into the back of his pants.
Sofia was incredulous. She knew that Samuel had not yet joined the Amish community, but she'd thought of him as Amish. She'd never thought of him as dangerous. "Are you sure that's safe?"
"Don't worry, it's not loaded," Samuel said. "I have some bullets in my pocket, but I'll only load it if there's an emergency."
"I don't want you to bring it," Sofia said. As scared as she was of the two men who were stalking her, she didn't want to invite more violence into her new friends lives. "You should throw it away."
"I'm not going to use it unless there's a problem. Like if those men come around, if they're the ones who attacked you."
"Please, don't," Sofia begged him. She wasn't even sure why she was so set against Samuel having such a weapon. If that policeman, the one whose voice she recognized if only in her fear of it, came back, he would certainly have a gun. Sofia wouldn't be able to resist him without some way to defend herself. But the thought of seeing Samuel with that gun in hand, the blood it would leave on his spirit if he fired it, was too sad to contemplate. "I can't stand the thought of your using that thing. Please, leave it here. Or better yet, sell it and buy something else for your car."
Samuel stood and crossed the shed, cupping Sofia's hands in his. "You are so good. It's in every part of you, a God given light that makes things clearer and more beautiful just for having been shone upon."
"So you'll leave it?"
Samuel squeezed her hands, for an instant tightly enough to hurt. "It's for my family too," he said. "I'll only use it if I have no choice."
As Sofia followed Samuel from the shed, fear settled over her, stronger and deeper than before. She willed herself as best she could to
remember
.
When they reached the end of the field, Samuel said, "Stop." He hopped over a gully and then said, "Take my hand."
It took another twenty minutes to reach Samuel's home. In that time, the best her memory gave her was the smell of damp, a diamond ring, and the muffled ringing of a land line phone. It was ephemeral, so much so that Sofia felt she might have imagined it all in her desperation. None of it measured to the warmth of Samuel's hand.
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Out of Darkness
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