02-11-2014, 08:18 PM
It was an enthralling experience, Tony could admit. He understood how Jensen James - this timid, self-depreciating man - had become something of a celebrity among the Christian community - or, one of them. Tony had only the vaguest knowledge of what Jensen talked about, but the man had a way of speaking just so; allowing an unfamiliar mind to grasp the concept with relative ease.
Tony leaned forward almost involuntarily to catch every word, each one seeming as important as the one before it. It was all he could do just to absorb the information. It was so foreign he had no chance to think beyond establishing what the words meant, never mind what they translated to from the metaphorical sense.
Finally however, Tony was able to understand Jensen; very well indeed. Politics of the Custody was a matter of child's play -almost literally- to him. The insinuations were not unnoticed.
Well, fuck me...
Tony could not hide his surprise and concern. It was one thing to be told the end was coming - quite another to be sitting in the middle of the Destroyer's lap.
It was then Jensen's other words came back to him like pieces of a puzzle. "Who - or what - then, is 'the Beast'? It seems that Apollyon is the harbinger."
The terms flowed awkwardly off of his tongue. "If I understand you correctly, the Beast is something worse?"
He lowered his voice to almost a whisper. "What could be worse than half the world in the hands of a fallen angel?"
The Ascendancy was most assuredly the greatest power in the world, and he was but a glorified messenger?
The thought did not sit well with Tony. The CCD and the machine of bureaucracy he understood, and could play the game of politics with the best of them, but Jensen's words hinted at something darker, primordial.
"They will ask, 'who is like the Beast? That it is possible to make war with him?'
Who indeed?
Edited by Tony Soloyov, Feb 11 2014, 08:18 PM.
Tony leaned forward almost involuntarily to catch every word, each one seeming as important as the one before it. It was all he could do just to absorb the information. It was so foreign he had no chance to think beyond establishing what the words meant, never mind what they translated to from the metaphorical sense.
Finally however, Tony was able to understand Jensen; very well indeed. Politics of the Custody was a matter of child's play -almost literally- to him. The insinuations were not unnoticed.
Well, fuck me...
Tony could not hide his surprise and concern. It was one thing to be told the end was coming - quite another to be sitting in the middle of the Destroyer's lap.
It was then Jensen's other words came back to him like pieces of a puzzle. "Who - or what - then, is 'the Beast'? It seems that Apollyon is the harbinger."
The terms flowed awkwardly off of his tongue. "If I understand you correctly, the Beast is something worse?"
He lowered his voice to almost a whisper. "What could be worse than half the world in the hands of a fallen angel?"
The Ascendancy was most assuredly the greatest power in the world, and he was but a glorified messenger?
The thought did not sit well with Tony. The CCD and the machine of bureaucracy he understood, and could play the game of politics with the best of them, but Jensen's words hinted at something darker, primordial.
"They will ask, 'who is like the Beast? That it is possible to make war with him?'
Who indeed?
Edited by Tony Soloyov, Feb 11 2014, 08:18 PM.