Chapter 87

"Let's go back home to Aya's barn," Diana said. “I think I need to take a nap.”

It was two hours later. The bodies of the pope and the priests were left hanging in the cathedral garden, where they would eventually be burned in a bonfire alongside the bodies of the other dead. As the storm retreated, the sky was already swarming with carrion eaters, who were circling the huge pile bodies of the dead. One vulture swooped down into the pope's garden and perched on the pope's bald head to gorge itself on prey.

After acquiring intelligence that Sulu's forces were fleeing Redberg to escape to Munster Village Moor, Diana, Tommy, and Damian made their way back to Aya's barn.

The area to the south of Munster Lake was a long way behind them. Instead of swimming in the lake, they borrowed a boat and rowed around it while they were still a league away in order to avoid being discovered. Damian and Tommy were rowing when Diana stopped them, implying that they were near the black coral bottoms, wh