"With the i-cam-raff I come — by the will of God!"
As he fell towards the city, he transformed into a beautiful and large swallow, and gently glided down to Pomperaque's towns-square.
CHAPTER TEN
On the following day, word had gone to all the citizens of Phoride, calling them to the town's square to observe the execution of a high official, set for sundown. The high official's name was not given.
Most of the men and their male children had obeyed, what was a command to attend. Knowing well, who the unnamed official was to be executed, all but a few of the Prominants had left their wives at home.
That was a direct symbol of their disobedience towards the ArchBishop.
Manguino had not regarded the petition sent to him asking for a pardon, for Brook, based on the Canon's Law and its declared punishment.
No one believed the allegations towards Brook and his wife, but they could do nothing to help him. There were many monastic guards watching the whole city and they had made it very difficult for any large groups of men to meet and talk.
At sundown, large numbers gathered in the square and waited.
They all looked at the two spreader-arches set on a platform, about a meter high, to one side of a large podium and the entire square took on the appearance of a theatre stage.