𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.   𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬.   𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞,    𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥.   joseph had been honest with hannibal of his intentions with the world,    and his devotion moved even hannibal,    who believed that their was no god nor higher power working throughout the world.   it was simply and ideology that men needed to believe that their was something else at work to explain that which they could not control.   a part of hannibal believed that was true for joseph seed,    but the other part wondered if there was truth to the destruction of which joseph spoke of. 

as a child, he was not taught forgiveness. he was not taught. instead lessons were forced upon him. his earliest memory was folded over on his family porch paying for his sin of reading a comic book. his father beat him with the belt from his pants, all the while, reciting the bible and, in the end, he would name that love. joseph was not taught better, but he knew that love was kind. love was the protective arms of his big brother. love was the small childish bickering he had with jacob and still embracing at the end of the night. he relied heavily on his brother in those days. joseph was a meek child, shy and nervous about everything. always wanting to be good. to behave in order to avoid his fathers wrath. his brother was the opposite, jacob was akin to robin hood, a hero in the eyes of his younger brothers. love was not conditional with jacob, it was given unwillingly. his father taught his wrath and his brother taught him love; it was planted at birth, and it took years to grow. he had tried therapy to drive the fear and the anger that took root in him out, but it did not help. the voice of god spoke to him. the voice helped; after ruin wrought. it saved him.

` * 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 : 𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚕 𝚌𝚊𝚒𝚗 - perverts.