Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet EarthPetrovic, Walter D.
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Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
Petrovic, Walter D.
Science fiction
"I am not here to inform one someone, or to falsely accuse another."
answered Jessuum. "I am here to tell you that you will soon answer for
your life and for all those things which you have done throughout it.
Be warned and prepare yourself!"
Manguino began to stomp in anger and he boiled with a fit of temper,
brought on by Jessuum's strange way of frightening -- by not saying
very much.
He turned back to Jessuum but Jessuum was gone. This made the
ArchBishop even more angry.
"Where'd he go?" he hollered.
"Out the window!" Eckma said in an apathetic tone.
Manguino looked about the window and saw nothing but a little bird
circling around the windows below him.
"That strange man will be the end of me!" Manguino said, then he
sprinted back to the pool, jumped in and had his usual violent sex with
Eckma.
Up in the spire of the cathedral, Orren was staring at the moon and at
the rest of the sky; and not long after midnight he once again saw the
Angels of Mons coming towards Pomperaque, from the northern sky.
They were the same four Mons that he saw before but this time they all
separated and descended upon the streets of the city.
However, the Mons did not ride the streets. They did, in fact, ride a
meter above them.
Cardinal Orren was nervous and frightened beyond his reasoning and he
couldn't sleep. He spent the remainder of the night in his bed
chamber reading the scripted words of Jessuum Benitar, to see what more
he could recover from its cryptic verses.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
The week was nearing its end and the invasion force, including the
intended second wave support, would soon be pouring into the northern
perimeters of Upper Phoride.
Boyce and his right arm, Lloyd, ran around the mansion and parts of
Pomperaque wishing all those who were voluntarily enlisted to their
cause, the greatest of luck and they let them know that the forces
would be along.
Everyone knew that they would be the advance lines that were to try and
take Pomperaque, and the rest of Phoride, from within.
They had all noticed a sudden concentration of monastic police, walking
the streets and securing certain important streets and buildings.
Mingo and bix were worried that those at Halls knew something but Lloyd
had explained to them the prophesy that the Seer from Mount Benitar had
given to the ArchBishop and they were becoming lunatics because of it.
"Just relax, men. They will wait until they see more signs in the sky,
like there were last night. They will interpret those as bad omens.
They expect a takeover that is more supernatural than a take-over made
by the discontented people of this city."
Lloyd somehow made sense to them and they became calm again and they
were sent to round up all those who offered their support to Boyce and
they took them to the underground passage running beneath the Blue
Mansion.
Lloyd and Boyce had gone to the other side of Bimini Hill, at its base,
where Tellis was keeping the two eagles calm and happy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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