let the redeemed of the father tell their story
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“Another seal has been broken. It…” Joseph’s voice breaks, a half-sob bursting through the static. He recovers quickly. “It brings me great sorrow to announce that my brother, John, will not be joining us in Eden. He is dead.”
Joseph sounds so mournful over the radio that for a moment John’s half-convinced that he’s imagining his own heartbeat, that he’s not really breathing, that he’s just an overactive ghost of someone else’s imagination. There’s dead silence in Father Jeffries’ church, Deputy Rook and his stupid little friends glancing at John and whispering amongst themselves.
And then Nick Rye, the bastard, starts laughing.
(Or: the Gates of Eden are shut to John Seed, who very unwillingly joins the resistance.)
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"How long, Dep?" Nick Rye asks. He looks exhausted, eyes pink and swollen from crying for so long. "How long we gonna be stuck down here?"
Rook doesn't answer immediately. He bites his lip. Shrugs. He doesn't know.
"Two thousand, five hundred, and fifty-five days," John says, quietly. "No, fifty-four days. The faithful will wait seven years, and then emerge into the New Eden."
There's silence for a moment.
"Fuck that," Jess Black snarls, standing up. "I ain't spendin' seven days with them Peggie creeps."
(Or: A living ghost stalks the halls of the old Black Horse Silo during the Collapse. John Seed just wishes it weren't him.)
Sequel to excommunication is the new black and water of the womb.
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