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
"My men also fight for the survival of our ways, in Phoride." Orren
reminded the ArchBishop that there was more than just he, as a reason
to fight in Pomperaque.
"There has been a great error on your part, so I believe!" Orren said.
"I cannot make errors!" the ArchBishop rebuked him. "Watch your
words, Orren. No matter if you are my most favoured cardinal I will
have you killed if you continue."
"Have me killed, then! If you can find someone who will do it!" Orren
threatened back to his master.
Manguino was angry, and like a child, he turned his face back to the
window and pouted as he stared out.
"I have found that the prophesy is clear, and yet we all have sought
interpretations." he explained. "Yours is an error of trust. You
have disregarded the two Bestenese and their crow, and you have
disregarded my vision of the mons, as being omens of our destruction.
I am prepared for anything, even if you are not!" he blurted at
Manguino.
"Prepared!" Manguino screamed. "Prepare yourself! -- that's what
Jessuum Benitar said before my ejaculation!"
"You are behaving as if you are mad, Manguino!" Orren pointed at him
as he drew nearer. "It's not becoming of someone of your greatness."
"Yes, I see that -- and I also see that you are not kind towards me
while I am troubled about what is being done to me!"
Orren shook the written prophesy in his hand and he returned to a
steadier and more controlled way of speaking to his master.
"We can only see that which is written but after it happens." Orren
sounded as if he understood the prophesy and he wanted to reveal his
knowledge to Manguino. "I have read about my vision of the Mons, that
bird on the stranger's shoulder, your trust of the two men and your
feast afterwards -- "
" -- What are you talking about?" Manguino interrupted him.
"I am talking about the prophesy, Your Grace. It is clearly states and
no interpretation is needed."
There was a convulsive silence in the room. It lasted only for a blink
of an eye, but seemed like an eternity.
"Let me see that, Orren!" he demanded.
Orren unravelled the document and read aloud from it:
"Four elements, ride on high
Come from the greatest fears inside.
All suspicions end with feast
Of gilded skins and threaded beads -- "
Manguino began to stomp his feet as he screamed at the top of his
voice, that carried through every part of Halls, for Orren to stop.
"Stop. Don't read it! Don't read it!"
He rushed to him but tripped on the robe that he was wearing over his
naked body, and Orren skipped to another familiar part of the
transcript.
"Black feathers from his shoulders jut
As promised in the Holy verbal blab
Shall come and take his place that day
And rule the city where he once did play."
Manguino raved, screaming to Orren to stop reading the words out loud
to him.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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