Flowers For The Devil

by Vlad Kahany

Freedom is a misleading word. The day I was picked up by Dr. Grevatt was the day I was given what should have been mine in the first place. So the Bible says. So does the law. But the Bible-loving men sail across the oceans and enslave others, taking their freedoms away. I suppose, on those trips, their Bibles and law codexes stay locked in drawers.”

“But shouldn’t justice be served in the proper way?” Alina looked at her in hopes of an answer. “Look at the country we live in. This empire enslaved a quarter of the world and killed more innocent people than any other nation. What law or sense of justice could possibly allow them to do so?”