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Picture, if you will, a dark lone-wolf who is seeking revenge against the man that turned his life into a living Hell. DARK REDEMPTION is about big guns, grand flair and the psychology of two mad characters who are trying to relate to themselves in an insane world.
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Jared Marcus Page, better known as CHANCE, was a young priest who was on a mission to “save the world.” He and his soon to be clergy (Chance, his mentor Father Callahan, a reverend mother, and four other sisters) were on their way to their designated church in New Mexico Territory, ready to spread the Lord’s word and reap bounty from the land. Along the way they were attacked. The dark man lead a large group of bandits, wanting to silence Callahan’s influence and settle a very old score. They shot Callahan dead; Chance tried to fight them off but he was beaten badly, hung from the limb of a nearby tree and left to die. The bandits looted the caravan and destroyed the wagons. While the rest were off hanging Chance, one of the thugs attempted to rape the youngest nun, Seraphine. During the brawl she pushed the bandit, causing him to trip on a Bible and impale himself on a pitchfork. Struggling, the thug pulled the pitchfork out of him and stumbled around to the entrance of the wagon. Seraphine picked up the pitchfork, without thinking, and followed him. From inside the wagon, one of the other three nuns saw her with the pitchfork and assumed the worst. The next day, the sisters buried Father Callahan and the bandit. When Seraphine tried to get on the wagon to leave, the reverend mother told her she was cast out of the order as a breaker of the sacred commandments. “Thou shalt not kill!” Here’s the thing: Something gave inside Seraphine when this event culminated into her excommunication. She didn’t argue at all. As a matter of fact, she has spent her life since convincing herself that she did kill the man, drinking her memory into a stupor. God wouldn’t do this to a woman like her, she wouldn’t hurt anyone. This story is just as much about her redemption as it is Chance’s. For Chance something gave as well, when he was left on that tree (other than his neck). Chance was a very idealistic reverend, and naïve child. He believed in the power of the Lord. He believed that one day, if he studied his Bible, saved people, and was respectful to the earth, and women, that God would come down to him and fill him with the Spirit. In truth, he had never felt like that; where he knew he felt the Spirit of the Lord. His encounter with the dark man was the closest thing he had to a holy moment. Chance hung in that tree for three days. The heat and starvation drove him to hallucinate. He spent the entire time plagued in nightmares and dark visions. When strangers (Seraphine) finally freed him from the noose, he was changed. He was feral, a nightmare. He learned to use guns, and fast. Chance was Hell-bent. God’s great acts were done through wrath, through vengeance. To chance, it was as if the dark man stole his soul and, until he got it back, he could never be redeemed.
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