Chapter 11: ANDREW goes through many stages of training with NEVYN only to finally end up with a well-behaved, loyal dog. He begins to realize that the dog seems to have a sense of what is happening in ANDREW’s dreams, and takes certain action when the visions are about to come.
Chapter 12: An Earthwire News article expresses tension in Rome as Pope PETER II intends to reveal “secrets” of the papacy to all the faithful in an effort to begin his Reconstruction of Faith mission. His Cardinals are outraged. In an airport in ROME, WOOLGRAB, frustrated with the news, curses a newscaster and then storms out of the building.
Chapter 13: MARA, twenty-one and now living in Boston, is convinced by her friend WANDA to attend a psychic meeting. ELI and his wife JEN have tricked ANDREW into attending the same meeting. ANDREW finds himself having to sit next to MARA, a woman that he is suddenly struck by, though no words pass between them. As the meeting starts, ANDREW closes his eyes and has a vision of he and MARA standing on opposite cliffs as Atlantis crumbles. He hears the woman’s name and he realizes that he has known her since the beginning of time. ANDREW wakes to find MARA gone. In fact, she has fallen in the street and has disappeared again.
Chapter 14: WOOLGRAB enters the Vatican unobstructed, and assassinates Pope PETER.
Chapter 15: ANDREW learns through the Boston Globe that the PETER has been assassinated. Returning home, NEVYN leads him to a FedEx envelope that arrived earlier, containing a letter demanding his immediate presence in Rome, as well as a one-way plane ticket.
Chapter 16: MARA awakes in an extravagant, vaulting bedroom in an Italian villa. She is devastated and races out onto the balcony in an attempt to escape. A maid enters and attempts to calm her. The maid dresses MARA and assures her that the man of the house will explain everything to her.
Chapter 17: On flight 180 from Boston’s Logan Airport to Rome, ANDREW receives a strangely familiar phone number from a stewardess, then watches the news and absorbs the various conspiracy theories developing over PETER’s murder. In an Italian prison, an insane WOOLGRAB marvels at the irony of his ironclad kingdom and kills himself crucifixion-style with a bedspring.
Chapter 18: Reverend Jay J. DOOLEY appears as a crazed, right wing apologist for WOOLGRAB, on the Skip WHALEN show. He is ultimately heckled off the set by the audience and mocking host.
Chapter 19: ANDREW arrives at the airport and suddenly realizes that the phone number given to him by the stewardess is, in fact, ELI’s number. He is confused and anxious.
Chapter 20: ANDREW is taken from the airport in a limousine driven by a hulking black man and his alluring, white-skinned female partner. MARA is led by the maid through a spacious corridor with gold-framed images of the Tarot hanging on the walls. The pictures are somehow familiar to her, but she does not really know what they are. Her mind is assaulted with hundreds of exploding visions relating back to all the lives she’s lived since her theft from the hospital. In terror, she gets away from the maid and escapes from the villa. She ends up in a town where two men pursue her, and where she is finally intercepted by a man who pledges to protect her. As the two head for cover, the men begin to shoot at them.
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