Chapter 2: The Admir- I mean Bishop of Haestrom
Shepjohn left the asteroid and wandered place to place looking for work, all while constantly reporting to the security offices along to way in accordance with his papers.
Officer Chellick: John Shepjohn, as a dangerous felon you will be on parole forever. Report to Freedom's Progress in 30 days. Failure to report means immediate arrest.
Denied shelter and food at the inns and taverns Shepjohn wanders to the church as a last place of refuge.
Admiral Hackett: Come in, sir, for you are the night is cold out there. Though our lives are very humble, what we have we to share.
The good bishop led Shepjohn into the and into the food hall prepared with silver plates.
Admiral Hackett: There is wine here to revive you. There is bread to make you strong. There's a bed to rest till morning- rest from pain and rest from wrong.
Bless the food we eat today. Bless our dear sister. And our honored guest!
In the dead of night Shepjohn kept awake by the memory silver and the comfort of the bed steals the bishops silverware and runs off into the night bit is stopped along the way.
Pallin: Now where would you be going with that, and how did you acquire such fine silverware?
Shepard: It was a gift from the bishop...
Pallin: You don't have enough intimidate points for that lie- guards size him!
The following day...
Pallin: Monsignor! We have your silver, we caught this human red-handed. He had the nerve to say you gave him it.
Admiral Hackett: That is right. But my friend you left so early! Surely something slipped your mind. You forgot I gave these also, would you leave the best behind?
To the shock of everyone in the room the bishop takes the two priceless silver candle sticks and hands them to Shepjohn.
Admiral Hackett: Sirs, release him. This man has spoken true. I commend you for your duty and God's blessing go with you.
Admiral Hackett: But remember this my brother. See in this some higher plan- you must this precious silver to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the passion and the blood, God has raised you out of darkness. I have bought your soul for God.
Shortly afterwards our hero finds himself in another wing of the church trying to reflect on what has happened.
Shepard: What have I done? Sweet Jesus what have I done?
Become a thief? In the night become a dog on the run?
Have I fallen so far and is the hour so late, that nothing remains but the cries of my hate! The cries in the dark that nobody hears? Here that I stand at the turning of the years!
If there's another way to go I missed it 20 long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and they murdered Shepjohn, when they chained me and left my for dead!
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread!
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other- he gave me his trust, he called me brother.
My life he claimed for God above.
Can such things be?
For had grown to hate the world. This world that always hated me!
Take an eye for a eye!
Turn your heart in stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back.
Back in a cage, back in cryo.
Instead he offers me my freedom.
I feel my shame inside me like an omni-blade.
He told me that I had a soul!
How does he know?
What spirt comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching but I fall.
And the night is closing in.
As I stand into the void.
Into the whirlpool of my renegade meter.
I'll escape now from that world from the world of John Shepjohn
John Shepjohn is nothing now!
Another story must begin!
Shepjohn tears up his papers and yellow ticket and throws the remains to the wind.
End of the second true chapter! Read and review please! I need the input!