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glances among them as they waited.
This time the warning hiss had not been in vain. The monk who watched from the head of the stairs turned
solemnly and bowed toward the fifth monk on the landing below.
“In principio Deus,” he said softly.
The fifth monk turned and bowed toward the fourth monk at the foot of the stairs. “Caelum et terram
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“Cure tenebris in superficie profundorum,” chorused the group.
“Ortus est Dei Spiritus supra aquas,” called Brother Forbore, returning his book to its shelf with a rattling of
chains.
“Gratias Creatori Spiritui,” responded his entire team.
“Dixitque Deus: ‘FIAT LUX,’ ” said the inventor in a tone of command.
The vigil on the stairs descended to take their posts. Four monks manned the treadmill. The fifth monk
hovered over the dynamo. The sixth monk climbed the shelf-ladder and took his seat on the top rung, his head
bumping the top of the archway. He pulled a mask of smoke-blackened oily parchment over his face to protect
his eyes, then felt for the lamp fixture and its thumbscrew, while Brother Kornhoer watched him nervously from
below.
“Et lux ergo facta est,” he said when he had found the screw.
“Lucem esse bonam Deus vidit,” the inventor called to the fifth monk.
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“et tenebras ‘noctes,’ ” Whereupon they set their shoulders to the turnstile beams.
Axles creaked and groaned. The wagon-wheel dynamo began to spin, its low whir becoming a moan and
then a whine as the monks strained and grunted at the drive-mill. The guardian of the dynamo watched anxiously
as the spokes blurred with speed and became a film. “Vespere occaso,” he began, then paused to lick two fingers
and touch them to the contacts. A spark snapped.
“Lucifer!” he yelped, leaping back, then finished lamely: “ortus est et primo die.”
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The monk on the ladder struck the arc. A sharp spffft!?aand blinding light flooded the vaults with a
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They advanced to within ten yards of Francis before a pebble rattled. The monk was murmuring the third
Ave of the Fourth Glorious Mystery of the rosary when he happened to look around.
The arrow hit him squarely between the eyes.
“Eat! Eat! Eat!” the Pope’s child cried.
On the trail to the southwest the old wanderer sat down on a log and closed his eyes to rest them against the
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long time. The search seemed endless, but there was always the promise of finding what he sought across the
next rise or beyond the bend in the trail. When he had finished fanning himself, he clapped the hat back on his
head and scratched at his brushy beard while blinking around at the landscape. There was a patch of unburned
forest on the hillside just ahead. It offered welcome shade, but still the wanderer sat there in the sunlight and
watched the curious buzzards. They had congregated, and they were swooping rather low over the wooded patch.
One bird made bold to descend among the trees, but it quickly flapped into view again, flew under power until it
found a rising column of air, then went into gliding ascent. The dark host of scavengers seemed to be expending
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his staff.
After a while he entered the forested area. The buzzards were busy at the remains of a man. The wanderer
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might enter as lambs into the fold of the Lamb, of whose flock on Earth We are the Shepherd; for, while We
have never despaired nor ceased to pray that these nomadic children of the darkness may be led into the Light
and enter Our realms in peace (for it is not to be thought that peaceful strangers should be repelled from a land so
vast and empty; nay, they should be welcomed who come peacefully, even should they be strangers to the visible
Church and its Divine Founder, so long as they hearken to that Natural Law which is written in the hearts of all
men, binding them to Christ in spirit, though they be ignorant of His Name), it is nevertheless meet and fitting
and prudent that Christendom,achat kamas, while praying for peace and the conversion of the heathen, should gird itself for
defense in the Northwest, where the hordes gather and the incidents of heathen savagery have lately increased,
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Francis had thought briefly of going to the northwest, if he failed to find a vocation to the Order. But,cheap rs money,
although he was strong and skillful enough with blade and bow, he was rather short and not very heavy, while?a
according to rumor?athe heathen was nine feet tall. He could not testify as to the truth of the rumor, but saw no
reason to think it false.
Besides dying in battle, there was very little that he could think of to do with his lifetime?alittle that seemed
worth the doing?aif he could not devote it to the Order.
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His certainty of his vocation had not been broken, but only slightly bent, by the scorching administered to
him by the abbot, and by the thought of the cat who became an ornithologist when called only by Nature to
become an ornithophage. The thought made him unhappy enough to permit him to be overcome by temptation,
so that, on Palm Sunday, with only six days of starvation remaining until the end of Lent, Prior Cheroki heard
from Francis (or from the shriveled and sun-scorched residuum of Francis, wherein the soul remained somehow
encysted) a few brief croaks which constituted what was probably the most succinct confession that Francis ever
made or Cheroki ever heard:
“Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard.”
Prior Cheroki having for many years been confessor to fasting penitents, found that custom had, with him,
as with a fabled gravedigger, given it all “a property of easiness,” so that he replied with perfect equanimity and
not even a blink: “Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?”
Holy Week would have been less lonely than the earlier weeks of Lent, had the hermits not been, by then,
past caring; for some of the Passiontide liturgy was carried outside the abbey walls to touch the penitents at their
vigil sites; twice the Eucharist came forth, and on Maundy Thursday the abbot himself made the rounds, with
Cheroki and thirteen monks, to perform the Mandatum at each hermitage. Abbot Arkos’ vestments were
concealed under a cowl, and the lion almost managed to seem humble kitten as he knelt, and washed and kissed
the feet of his fasting subjects with maximum economy of movement and a minimum of flourish and display,
“Benedicamus Domine.”
“Deo? gratias?” asked Francis.
“Come in, my boy, come in!” called an affable voice, which, after some seconds of puzzling, he recognized
with amazement to have been that of his sovereign abbot.
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“You twist the little knob, my son,” said the same friendly voice after Brother Francis had stood frozen on
the spot for some seconds, with his knuckles still in position for knocking.
“Y-y-yes-” Francis scarcely touched the knob, but it seemed that the accursed door opened anyway; he had
hoped that it would he tightly stuck.
“The Lord Abbot s-s-sent for?ame?” squawked the novice.
Abbot Arkos pursed his lips and nodded slowly. “Mmmm?ayes, the Lord Abbot sent for?ayou. Do come in
and shut the door.”
Brother Francis got the door closed and stood shivering In the center of the room. The abbot was toying
with some of the wire-whiskered things from the old toolbox.
“Or perhaps it would be more fitting,” said Abbot Arkos, “If the Reverend Father Abbot were sent for by
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“Heh heh?” Brother Francis laughed inquiringly. “Oh n-n-no,cheap final fantasy gil, m’Lord.”
“You do not dispute that you have won overnight fame? That Providence elected you to discover THIS?a”
he gestured sweepingly at the relics on the desk “?athis ]UNK box, as its previous owner no doubt rightly called
it?”
The novice stammered helplessly, and somehow managed to wind up wearing a grin.
“You are seventeen and plainly an idiot, are you not?”
“That is undoubtedly true, m’Lord Abbot.”
“What excuse do you propose for believing yourself called to Religion?”
“No excuse, Magister meus.”
“Ah? So? Then you feel that you have no vocation to the Order?”
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“But you propose no excuse?”
“None.”
“You little cretin, I am asking your reason. Since you state none, I take it you are prepared to deny that you
met anyone in the desert the other day, that you stumbled on this-this JUNK box with no help, and that what I
have been hearing from others is only-feverish raving?”
“Oh, no, Dom Arkos!”
“Oh, no, what?”
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meaning of that ancient sign: FALLOUT SURVIVAL SHELTER.
As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of preDeluge English was far from masterful yet. The way
nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin,aoc power leveling, as in
most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and
even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat
did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by
dog food or sentry box even without inflection. But what of a triple appositive like fallout survival shelter?
Brother Francis shook his head. The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely
these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell. At times, the novice found pre-Deluge English more perplexing
than either Intermediate Angelology or Saint Les lie’s theological calculus.
He built his fire on the slope of the rubble pile, where it could brighten the darker crannies of the
antechamber. Then he went to explore whatever might remain uncovered by debris. The ruins above ground had
been reduced to archaeological ambiguity by generations of scavengers, but this underground ruin had been
touched by no hand but the hand of impersonal disaster. The place seemed haunted by the presences of another
age. A skull, lying among the rocks in a darker comer, still retained a gold tooth in its grin?aclear evidence that
the shelter had never been invaded by wanderers. The gold incisor flickered when the fire danced high.
More than once in the desert had Brother Francis encountered, near some parched arroyo, a small heap of
human bones,buy aion kina, picked clean and whitening in the sun. He was not especially squeamish, and one expected such
things. He was, therefore, not startled when he first noticed the skull in the comer of the antechamber, but the
flicker of gold in its grin kept catching his eye while he pried at the doors (locked or stuck) of the rusty lockers
and tugged at the drawers (also stuck) of a battered metal desk. The desk might prove to be a priceless find, if it
contained documents or a small book or two that had survived the angry bonfires of the Age of Simplification.
While he kept trying to open the drawers, the fire burned low; he fancied that the skull began emitting a faint
glow of its own. Such a phenomenon was not especially uncommon, but in the gloomy crypt, Brother Francis
found it somehow most disturbing. He gathered more wood for the fire, returned to jerk and tug at the desk, and
tried to ignore the skull’s flickering grin. While a little wary yet of lurking Fallouts, Francis had sufficiently
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teeming with rich relics of an age which the world had, for the most part, deliberately chosen to forget.
Providence had bestowed a blessing here. To find a bit of the past which had escaped both the bonfires end
the looting scavengers was a rare stroke of luck these days. There was, however, always a risk involved.
Monastic excavators, alert for ancient treasures, had been known to emerge from a hole in the ground,
triumphantly carrying a strange cylindrical artifact, and then?awhile cleaning it or trying to ascertain its purpose
?apress the wrong button or twist the wrong knob, thereby ending the matter without benefit of clergy. Only
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