Bridge To The Stars (2013)

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FATHER IWANICKI

Your friend does sound troubled, my son.

ELWOOD

The worst of it was his strange, terrible dreams.

FATHER IWANICKI

An intelligent man studying both mathematics and occult folklore... no doubt it triggered his imagination.

ELWOOD

It wasn’t his imagination, Father. I think he made some kind of deal with the Devil. He’d gained abstract mathematical knowledge beyond human comprehension! We were all astounded by it, especially our teacher, Professor Upham.

Walter strode up to the black board and effortlessly solved numerous Riemannian equations, which seemed to demonstrate the possibility of man literally stepping from one dimension to others of infinite remoteness. Professor Upham was astonished. I was baffled at first, but soon I could see...

Other students whispered about Walter in the hallways. Even the faculty were concerned for him. The learning ... he was coming unhinged.

FATHER IWANICKI

Perhaps Gilman ought not to have studied so hard.

ELWOOD

It wasn’t only that, Father. Walter lived in the very room where Keziah herself performed black magic.

FATHER IWANICKI

My son, witchcraft and science are two sides of the same coin. Man has always hungered for the unknowable, the divine.

ELWOOD

But Father, this isn’t divine at all. This knowledge was, I don’t know... profane? Unholy?

FATHER IWANICKI

Your friend Walter’s soul was in peril, my son. Yours too, perhaps. The Lord of Darkness is always present and can take many forms.

ELWOOD

Yes, Father. Walter heard strange, unearthly voices in the house. He said there was a creature, a horrible thing bound to the Witch.

FATHER IWANICKI

It is said witches had familiars, evil spirits in the form of animals.

ELWOOD

Yes! That’s it exactly! He saw it, in his dreams.

FATHER IWANICKI

Dreams can be a battlefield, where the holy and unholy wage war for the soul.

ELWOOD

Walter’s dreams were now becoming terrifying nightmares.

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