“OK team. Let’s go over this one more time. We will go to the church. All of us will be in our eye’s wide shut costumes with masks. We will mimic the behavior of these wretched loathsome beasts and when the time comes when they start the ritual or sacrifice I will give the signal. Senex, Puer, and Ursula will be responsible for getting us out of there. Ursula when all is said and done, and we make our escape it is your job to wipe their minds so that we don’t leave a trace of our identity and powers, etc. If we are found out we risk exposure and just another thing that these deplorables can turn and use against us. Another thing they can use to fundraise and create further hostility and unrest.” Saying that Alma rose to her feet. “Are we in agreement y’all? What say you Aegis – the shield, the emissaries of the P.O.E?”
“Here here, let’s do this.” The group shouted in unison.
“OK also, let us try and bring Rex back in one piece. As we have been listening to him as he has laid out all this for the mastermind of all these atrocities this Dr. Hugh Jenix. We must be forever vigilant that we rise above this evil that has been fostered in these people’s hearts. We are on a mission to extract a pilgrim of kindness and compassion. We must keep this in mind no matter what the cost.” Jove said as he tried on his eyes wide shut costume and mask. “Well, it is Halloween night. So, treat these ghouls with kindness and we trick them and bring home a brother as we try to stop this Dr. Hugh Jenix from trying to kill the last thread of humanity in an already threadbare tapestry in the human experience. Now let's saddle up and ride.”
“Jove you are showing your human side boo.” Said Thea as she leaned in to give him give a peck on the cheek.
“You heard the man. Let’s ride.” Alma said as she shut and locked the door behind them. “Yeehaw.”
As we assembled and continued to walk across town. Figuring it wasn’t that far and why not walk? I was becoming concerned about how things were going thus far on my sojourn here on Earth. I was struggling with if I needed to impart some knowledge of my experience with eternity and how this damn universe operated and how it didn’t.
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“Ok group,” I said as I began my history lesson. “So, we know now perhaps what these folks are up to correct? OK So, it seems all too familiar. It does right? Well, you have heard the expression that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. There is more to it than that. Sam Harris has posited that anyone put in the exact circumstances will make the same choices and have the same outcome. So freewill can go fuck itself. The ancients believed in the cyclic nature of the universe. That there were very long cosmic days, weeks, years, etc. I don’t care what religion, deity, or philosophy you believe in there are patterns. There are certain traits and behaviors that humans cannot kick. There is what is called the eternal return or eternal recurrence. That time is infinite, and matter is finite. Hence the time has no end and only a theory of its beginning. Big bang and all and now that the universe is now believed to be contracting what does it all mean? Sorry to say that there are echoes from the past and those echoes come back and are relieved. If a big bad wants to kill everyone and everything it is OK. We will survive. I stand corrected maybe some of us. Overall – time marches on. Been there done that as they say. I just needed to get that off my chest. In case things go south and the Planet goes in the shitter.” I said as he sped up his pace.
“Great pep talk their big guy.” Said Puer as he ran to catch up with me.
“Where do we go when we die?” Puer asked.
“You are kidding right?” I said.
“No seriously. Are we recycled and shot back off the conveyor belt?” Puer asked half kiddingly. “I don’t ask for me or us, and certainly not you. But you know these mooks down here on Earth?”
“These mooks as you call them are doing their best. However, there will always be one of them who wants to ruin it for all of them. There will always be someone who wants to rule them all for pleasure and glory. It is antithetical to what they say they believe and preach. Like children fighting over a toy. They believe that this world belongs to them. They believe that they have dominion over a world that they do not understand and appreciate. Now, are you ready Puer to save the day?” I asked as I looked back to the others and motioned for them to quicken their pace.
“If not today then when? Right, Jove?”
“My thoughts exactly, Puer.”