“Remember the oath: “Never ask!” Don’t forget it!” he admonished her in response. “Do your duty properly and you will be adequately rewarded,” he concluded, then went out as hastily as he had entered because he had to go to give orders to Dr. Lorentz.
Judas continued to spend his days together with Jodie. That day they had been on a trip to the countryside and they had lived it like a nightmare, like all the previous ones. They had done nothing but walk for hours looking straight forward, immersed in an abysmal silence interrupted only by the rare whistle of some bird. Throughout the return trip he kept wondering what he would prepare for dinner, when they got home they found two Lords of the Order waiting for them in the garden.
“Mister Judas 1091?” one of them asked, reading his name f
