What Lay Unseen In The House On The Hill - A Story by Moe

"...I was sent to warn you: the devil's in the next room..."

A beautiful house sits high upon a hill. A sight to see among the houses. Prosperous and managed with detailed order. It's greatness...unmatched. It's wealth...unparalleled. It's occupants...envied by all. All seems almost perfect, except for one thing...it's unseen tenant. A tenant that has lived beneath the house long enough to outlast every new occupant that came and went for many years. Living lifetimes without allowing himself to be seen as threatening in any way. Always making sure to appear meek, humble and frail. Yet what many did not know was that he considered himself the true master of the house. He quietly ruled in secret through crafty machinations and deceit. He slyly created a system that allowed him to syphon riches from every new occupant by convincing them that the greatness of the house was dependant on the system he had created. A system that tethered him into every section of the house...he could never be removed.

One night, he decided to reach out to the other unseen tenants that lived in the lesser houses to see how they could increase their power and wealth. They came up with a plan that would require this once beautiful house to lose its place on the hill. To weaken its status among the houses in the land till they were the only power strong enough to rule. Yet as the weakening began...the occupants took notice. They began to try everything they could to stop the decline but nothing could be done as the systems in place were controlled by the unseen tenant. The greater the decline, the stronger he became and the stronger he became...the more brazenly wicked were his actions. With his power unchecked, the occupants themselves soon became his playground. Yet in his hubris, he made a grave mistake...he allowed himself to be seen. All the other unseen tenants that conspired with him would soon follow suit until one by one...they were all revealed.

New occupants across the land saw what they needed to do and it would not be easy as evil unseen appears docile so as not to be noticed but once evil is revealed for extraction...it will fight back with all its force in unrepressed abandon. A force that has the ability to destroy anyone or anything in its path while infecting the very atmosphere with its darkness. A darkness meant to confuse and contort the truth whose aim is fixed to suppress the needed belief of a victorious end. The occupants pressed through it all and decided to fight this evil until all subversive systems were finally removed. With the same passion they used to fight this evil...they knew they would be able to rebuild and restore all that was destroyed in battle to create a more prosperous land.

In this great war, they came to understand a truth: Just as a fever is needed to destroy an infection, so must evil be purged in the same manner for real restoration and change to take hold. Nobody likes a fever as some can prove fatal but if it will cleanse the system of infection...it's worth enduring. New beginnings always are... 

The end? That's up to you...

~Moses