A place of no hope and only torment that increased steadily in fervor against her until she felt like she was being roasted alive in hellfire itself. She didn't want any part of this!
"Oh Jesus I don't want this! Please!"
There was no peace at her words as those around her touched her as they chanted dark things even as they frothed at the mouth losing all the glory of their created form in exchange for a twisted manifestation of the seed of Satan. When had she ever known peace?
She remembered Jim reading to her. She remembered the Captain's words. She remembered the unshakable faith of her Aunt. If there was an answer to peace it lay in the faith of the most influential people in her life.
At the top of her lungs Christina screamed, "Jesus I need you now! I need you! Oh God don't forsake me, because I believe! I believe!"
Silence fell over the place as all there turned to snarl as crazed animals at the weeping girl experiencing peace and freely given salvation that swept through her dispelling all darkness's hold over her body and spirit.
A roar of rage horrible to hear rent the place with its dark sound as the lead tormentor began to explode upward in height. He rose above the floor until he stood nakedly majestic above all those in the room. He was easily three times the height of the tallest man in the room.
He strode forward towards the solitary pillar his steps shaking the room. Reaching it his fist snaked out and pulverized the pillar to broken rock. Reaching down then his hand engulfed Christina and he brought her up to eye level.
The massive mouth set on a face of grotesqueness fell open to reveal double rows of teeth as a demon's spirit spoke having been given bodily form by a foolish man who had squandered away his priceless soul for a taste of power only to find out it had all been a lie.
"Foolish girl to deny us inhabitation! Do you not see what I can do to you? It is in my power to crush you! Revoke your vow and join us or I eat you now!"
The words were terrible to hear in both sound and quality of meaning, but Christina looking mature beyond her years gazed back into the glaring visage before her without fear and said, "if I perish I perish. Do your worst for I have life beyond any power of yours to ever take from me."
The giant roared and looked for a moment as if he was about to bite her head off, but instead he pulled his arm back and threw Christina towards the far wall of the cavern as one would chuck a river pebble to see how far out it would land in the pond.