Jessuum broke from his stare and slowly turned, and looked back at the
Almighty ArchBishop.
"That's all for now, I must depart!" he told Manguino then began to walk away.
"Wait!" squealed the ArchBishop. "Why do you leave?"
"Patience is a quality that you are not endowed with. How unfortunate!
I will be near, when I am needed!"
Jessuum walked away from the ArchBishop headed for no place in particular.
MIDDLE: THE PROMISE, FULFILLED
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The deaths of Brook and Dearborne had not meant the death of the world, or even that of Pomperaque. Life endured as it was seemingly meant to, and the evil that lived in their time had carried on, as well.
There came a frightening peace in Pomperaque, as there was a frightening quite, since no forms of dissention or negative thought was permitted under Manguino's own amendments to the Canon's Laws.
Public gatherings of men (as were private meetings), were not wholly forbidden, but the numbers of men that gathered was limited to no more than four at a time — unless there was a city conference called for meeting, in the town's square, by the ArchBishop's own request.