After Vespers, I retired to my cell and knew immediately that it would be a sleepless night, for I was energized by a wondrous sense of well-being, which surged outward from my dark heart to the farthest reaches of my extremities, deadening any residual inclination that I might have had to place stock in that body and its desires, tantalizing me with visions of the world as it would appear when the truth began to shine through the cracks of creation like rays from a black sun.
