There was a great dinner party at Halls the next evening.
Orren was against the idea of having it but the ArchBishop apparently
was very warm for his idea.
It has reached the point for Manguino that his whole days spent with
Eckma in the act of fornication was beginning to tire him. He wanted
an interesting diversion in order to get his life to seem fulfilling
and exciting once again.
Orren didn't participate. He went up to the cathedral's spire early
and watched the sky for hours.
At the height of the gala this evening the urge returned to Manguino
and he left his higher cardinals to entertain the guests while he took
Eckma back to their chamber.
When they entered the chamber, disrobed and were just to get into their
pool, Manguino looked to the window and saw Jessuum Benitar standing
there.
"Jessuum!" exclaimed Manguino, walking towards him, still naked.
This was quite disturbing for the prophet but he said nothing about it.
"I thought that I'd never see you again!" Manguino said to him.
Jessuum looked about the chamber and saw Eckma staring right into his
face while she stroked the nipple of her left breast.
He looked away from her and turned slightly away from her direction
while he spoke to the ArchBishop.
"I come to ask if you remember the prophesy that I gave to you, once
upon a time?" he asked Manguino.
"Yes, and don't repeat it to me!" Manguino replied in a hostile voice,
then continued. "But, you can tell me something, Seer. Are the two
men from Besten, Boyce Loebh and that Lloyd friend of his, part of that
prophesy?"
"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.