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"So you looked for the Father?" Sol asked, attempting to get more of the story, as John Paul had not spoken for a few minutes.

"Yes. I looked for and found the one our kind call the Father. It took many years and many lives, but I finally found him."

"And what did he tell you?" Sol asked.

"He told me to prepare the way for the chosen one. That it was my job to tell our kind that the souls we take will be redeemed and that we would be held accountable for what we have done.

"He told me that my name would be John Paul."

"Is that all he told you?" Sol asked.

"No."

"He told me that we were crucibles to be filled by evil souls. That long ago we sinned and rebelled against the Unspeakable. That it had a pact with God himself and that we had violated that pact.

"He said we would pay for that sin."

"How?"

"I don't know. And I have to admit, these last years my faith wavered. That is why I left the order to Paul. I had forgotten that God works in his time, not ours.

"The Father told me, that when the time came, I was to help the sun. I assumed he meant the Son of God, but now I believe he meant you."

"What?"

"He said that one would come to redeem the souls of our victims and hold them until they could be judged. Until we could be judged. He said the sun would pave the path through which we could be saved before the judgement.

"He said I must help the sun in his journey." With that John Paul knelt down in front of Sol, who still refused to sit, and kissed his hands. "I am your servant, I will do whatever you ask."


"John Paul, I am hardly the one that God would choose to deliver anything. Take out the dregs of society, perhaps, but I have no right to save souls or even trumpet the arrival of one who would."

Standing, John Paul asked, "Have you ever taken a soul that did not want or deserve to be taken?"

"With only myself as the judge, jury, and executioner, I do not believe I have."

"Think on what we have discussed tonight. We will talk again. I feel you are overwhelmed. I must let God's will unfold in his time.

"I have spoken too much, tell me Sol, why have you come to see me?"

"I actually came to see Paul to find out what the city was like."

"Ah, that is not my affair. I am here for the end. Let's go find Paul and you can ask him whatever you need to know."



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