I have spent months now watching various "purification rituals". Tracking the "purified" afterwards. Understanding the construction of these massive rituals.

The few friends I have confided in say that I have become obsessed.

Perhaps that is true. 

And after all this time... all this WORK... I cannot find any fault.

All the signs point to the people being happier afterwards, but still being themself. There is no mind control, no corruption, no "hidden cost"... that I can see.

I have seen truly depraved individuals try whole heartedly to make amends. I have seen normal folk simply go home and hug their family members.

Some leave with a faint glow that slowly fades to near imperceptibility. I can detect a lingering SOMETHING in many of them. But with all my tools and all my knowledge I can detect nothing harmful. 

It is as if they are all connected by the gentlest lightest of strings to something... benevolent?

With every passing day, I fear that I soon must go through the ritual to understand what is happening, or face madness in my uncertainty. 

-writings by the Witch Emerald McHeartslove