“Should he know already? Doesn’t he know everything?”
“He doesn’t pretend to be the Puritan God, he doesn’t know all.”
“But how will we know?” Tace asked. “If the child doesn’t appear fully human, of course then it’s his. But then what will I do?”
Obedience laughed. “You’ll be honored above all others in this New World. Even me. You will no longer be human, but you won’t be a deity either. You will occupy the world between the two.”
“And my daughter?”
“She will lead us, she will lead us.” Obedience turned back to her potion.
When she returned to her house, she was alone. Creedence had done what she asked and went to the tavern. Over the months of her pregnancy Tace had found it easy to control her husband because of the wedding band around his manhood. Certainly one of the positive a
