Lloyd had entirely hacked up the bodies of Eckma and the child until all that was left of them was bloody flesh, severed bones, and pieces of internal organs strewn all over the bed. Manguino and Orren met one another in the long hallway that led to the main chamber and they didn't say anything to one another. They just continued on their way until they reached the ArchBishop's room. They bowled through the door and pushed their way through the curtains to where the bed was. Lloyd, in his beautiful armour turned around when he heard the noise and he saw the cardinal dressed in his battle garb and Manguino in his robes. Manguino didn't seem to be overly disturbed seeing that his wife and child were mutilated. "Thank-you!" Manguino said to Lloyd. "I was getting tired of her, anyway!" "May the true living God forgive me for murder but evil must be destroyed. In my life I served my God and I served my earthly king and friend, Boyce Loebh Scullion-Blue. In death I shall only serve my God!" stated Lloyd. "If you will!" replied Manguino to Lloyd's statement, the looked at Orren and pointed his finger at Lloyd. Orren raised his cross bow at Lloyd. "The murder of my father, the Cardinal Allen, is avenged." he said then he shot Lloyd. Lloyd didn't fall though. He stood straight and firm; his blood gushing from where the arrow penetrated his armour, right through to his back, and he even spoke. "Your father's death was its own revenge!" Lloyd said to Orren, with blood spattering from out of his mouth. "You will not live Orren." Lloyd fell to one knee and Orren shot him a second time, nearer the heart, but lloyd continued before he fell forward. "You won't lice in the next life!" While Lloyd lay dead on the floor, in a pool of scarlet that spread about him, Orren put another arrow into his cross bow and shot the body once more time. When he did that a surprising shriek was heard and Zoro flew around the room three times. Orren ran after it brandishing his sword, trying to hit it in mid air, but Zoro flew out of the window and towards the Mansion. There was a very long pole that kept a canopy of lace up over the round bed, and Orren pulled it down. He cut off Lloyd's head, after taking the gallant helmet off of the corpse and he shoved the head onto one end of the pole. Orren and a party of men then made their way slowly from Halls to the Blue Mansion, carrying the pole with Lloyd's head mounted on it. The fighting had subsided, and the electric twang of the electrophore weapons was no longer heard. Only far in the background there could be heard the tinny sound of hand-to-hand sword fighting. At the base of the cobbled walkway, leading up to the mansion, some twenty meters from the main door, Orren and his men planted the headed pole and left it there. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE