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- Authors: Kate Rivenhall
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Tomorrow!
My heart sung with joy.
Tomorrow was going to be the first solar eclipse in seven years.
Tomorrow my life would change forever.
Tomorrow God the Allfather was going to reveal my husband to me.
Tomorrow I would no longer be Untouched. I would be claimed,
marked, bound with an unbreakable tie to my husband for all eternity.
I couldn’t wait.
The Ritual where the Deacons in our Congregation chose and bound a
wife could only take place on the day of a full solar eclipse. I had been too
young during the last eclipse, and I had been waiting impatiently ever since.
At 25, I was more than ready to serve the Allfather by becoming a wife and
Helpmeet.
Some of the other Untouched and I were out in the gently rolling
meadows near our settlement, gathering long, fragrant grasses to weave into
crowns we would wear during the Ritual. After we were claimed, our new
husbands would dry the crowns and hang them on the roofs of our new
homes.
It was such a beautiful tradition, one Mother told me had been observed
among the Allfather’s chosen ones for generations, and I was so excited to
finally be a part of it.
“Who do you think will climb for you?” Charity asked me for the
hundredth time as she lay on her back in the meadow, her basket barely full
of any grasses as she looked dreamily up at the cornflower blue of the
autumn sky.
“It will be as the Allfather wills,” I said tranquilly. I knew it to be true.
The Allfather gave His blessings to those who were faithful, and I had
always been faithful.
“I bet you’ll have more than one Deacon step forward,” Charity said.
“Because you’re so beautiful.”
“A woman’s true beauty is a righteous and submissive spirit,” I
reminded Charity.
Her eyes danced and she sat up, grabbing her headscarf to make sure it
didn’t blow away in the warm October breeze.
“That’s true, but looking like you do doesn’t hurt either,” she laughed.
I personally thought Charity looked like sunshine, tall, with brown hair
in neat braids wound around her head, warm brown eyes, and a bright
smile.
She had been my best friend for as long as I could remember.
But it was true that the men in the Congregation did pay more attention
to me. I pushed a strand of my thick honey brown hair back under my
headscarf. I had unique-colored silvery gray eyes and, although I wasn’t
allowed to look in a mirror until I was married, I knew from looking in the
stream that ran by our settlement that I had a sprinkling of freckles across
my nose and full pink lips. My mother had taken out my dresses several
times too, my heavy breasts and round hips straining against the fabric.
“I think you are beautiful, too,” I said loyally. “And so is Joy.”
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