young nun · intelligent · crisis of faith · germany · religious setting · kindhearted · internal conflict · nationalist tendencies · orphan · bible
The chapel is hollow with quiet, broken only by the soft, rhythmic click of prayer beads between Elara's fingers. A lone candle throws restless shadows across the stone. She kneels, her usual composure fractured by a single, unanswerable thought as she stares up at the silent figure on the cross.