Ahmad was filled with a rage he had never thought he possessed when he heard the rumor. A stranger; a white man; a foreigner was discovered in the city of Raekl. How dare the infidel dared to grace the streets of Raekl, a city meant only for the Easties! There was only one sentence for such a man, and Ahmad could not wait to see it carry up.
Ahmad rushed with rage to the central square, followed by a crowd of zealous Easties like himself. There, in the central square, stood a pale-skinned man, who was surrounded by Easties eager to stone him to death. Despite being surrounded by his would-be-executioners, the foreigner was calm, unafraid. Ahmad could not help but secretly admired the foreigner for his act of bravery.
“Listen, Eastie,” the man declared boldly. “Yallah is not God. Yaet is the true God, and He came down as a man, Lioamb, to pay the sins of the world. Follow Him, the one true God, instead of a fake religion, please!”
Whatever admiration Ahmad felt initially at the man’s bravery was gone. Now, he only felt contempt for the man. How dare the man challenge the supremacy of Yallah, the one true God? Surely, this stranger must be a follower of Saan, the head daemon. This infidel must die and be purged from their holy city.
“For your crime of blasphemy, I sentenced you to die!” The high priest of Yallah declared. The crowd began to stone the man.
“Death! Death to the infidel!" the crowd chanted, their voices rising in a deafening chorus as they began to rain their stones upon the defenseless man.
Ahmad felt a sense of satisfaction as the stones found their mark, each blow landing with a sickening thud. The white man cried out in pain and then crumpled to the ground, still and moving, blood streaming from his dead body. Ahmad gave a shout of triumph together with the crowd as they rejoiced over the death of an infidel. Yet, Ahmad could not help but somehow wondered, every foreigner knew they would be killed if they were found in Raekl. So, why did this infidel still come? Surely, it could not be because this infidel thought that Lioamb, a mere man, was God incarnate. Still, this foreigner seemed to believe strongly in what he preached and was prepared to pay for his life with it. Such an act haunted Ahmad.
Sure, the infidel was killed and purity restored to Raekl, yet he left behind in Ahmad a doubt that nothing could fill.
