The Order Page #3

Grazie.

In nomine Patris, et Fili,

et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

In the name of God...

I command you to return

from whence you came.

In the name of God-

In the name ofJesus, God, and the

Holy Virgin, I order you back to hell!

Well, off to hell yourself.

What kind of a greeting's that?

You're late.

Never too late, Alex.

Witness the repentant thief...

crucified alongside our Lord Savior.

- Quick thinker, eh?

- How you doin'?

Ah, I'm grand.

- So, did you bury him?

- Yeah.

Rogue priest readin' rites

over an excommunicado.

Damn dirty job,

but someone's gotta do it.

Well, cheers.

To the last of the Carolingians.

You and me.

Cheers.

What just passed

through here, Alex?

Demon spawn

in the guise of children.

Nothing I couldn't handle.

- Who summoned those nasties up?

- Dominic, I think.

They were camped

outside his apartment.

Oh, speaking of the apartment,

I met your girlfriend.

She's not my girlfriend.

Well, she should be. She said

you'd be at the Concezione.

You told her it was a restaurant?

- Well, she would have come with me otherwise.

- Oh, women.

Can't live with 'em.

Can't live with 'em.

- Come on.

- Sin eater.

"In absolution, the burden of guilt...

"would be transmuted

to the sin eater...

as would the knowledge

of the transgressions."

Wait. You mean he'd know what

your sins were? Even the details?

He'd know them

and feel the burden of them.

He'd spend sleepless nights

over things others had done.

He'd have the ascendancy

to free a man's soul.

And damn his own.

We're Carolingians, Alex and I.

Now, in a way,

that makes us responsible.

They say the practice of sin eating began

with banished members of our order.

Come on. That's like

saying that sheep...

are responsible for the sweaters

that get made from their wool.

Maybe they are, Mara, girl.

I found the vellum Dominic bought.

I'll translate it for you.

Okay...

"Place the instrument

of delivery over the heart."

It must be some kind of weapon.

And then look.

"Barath-mae, barath-sec. "

Blood in, blood out.

"And drive into the heart."

Now, the rest is missing.

- Still, you get the idea.

- I'm not sure I do.

Well, they're instructions...

on how to kill a sin eater.

Dominic trained us to deal with ghosts

and demons and all manner of undead...

but this sin eater,

he's a living man.

Well, whatever he is,

he killed Dominic.

Maybe, maybe not.

I've seen another copy

of this somewhere.

So, we meet again.

Jesu, the f***in' cavalry.

So, how are you finding our city

of emperors, our city of martyrs?

Would you care for a beer, Your Eminence?

Or something a little stronger?

- And you are?

- He's Thomas.

- She's Mara.

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