Finally have the net again.

She supposed it was only fitting that this would happen. She was becoming the world's scapegoat, she knew that much. It was what she wanted to do. Better for her to take on the world's problems than let these people fight them out themselves. In a way, she was assuming the sins of the world. That alone was weight enough, but now; now she'd been handed her cross to bear. The pain was ever present, a constant pressure. She had a tiny hope in her heart that perhaps she would get used to it; that the pain would dull over time. But Seth told her that it was all too possible that the pain would last for as long as it was there. So she knew she would have to learn to overcome the pain. To 'grin and bear it' as some say. Though that was precisely what she was learning to do. Despite the, at times, seering pain, she would have to maintain her smile. For as it had always been with her worries for the world, she would have to hold the pain, too, in her heart. No one could see that she was suffering. There would always have to be a look of hope, of comfort, of pride, and often of happiness on her face, no matter how little she felt that way inside. She was to suffer, but it was her cross to bear, and no one else's. Should she need a Simon of Cyrene, she knew in her heart and soul that one would step forward, but until then, she would continue to get up on her own.


If you couldn't tell, this character - I'll leave you to figure out who it is, though for some it will be obvious - is going to be a parallel to Jesus in as many ways as I can pull off. She's going to represent, in some ways, Christ's Second Coming. I may go over that more here, though I must admit, I haven't fully figured out all of the parallels just yet.