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do.”
“Yes, I do. And I can’t wait to get to this one. I’m assuming I would have access to the GC foundry, as we won’t have time to have this done off-site.”
David shut one eye. “The foundry is on three shifts, seven days a week. We could have this more cheaply done in Asia, where”
“Help me stay civil here, David, as it is clearly my fault for not clarifying.
Supreme Commander Fortunate-who, in case you couldn’t figure this out on your own, will likely be the new potentate once Carpathia is entombed-wants this monument in place no later than at dawn Sunday.”
Guy stared at David, as if to let that sink in. It almost didn’t. David looked at his watch. It was crowding 1:00 A.M. Saturday, Carpathia Standard Time. “I don’t see it,” he said, “but I don’t imagine you can be dissuaded.”
“Why, I believe we have begun to connect!”
Anything but that, David thought.
“Zhizaki,” Guy said, “if you please.”
With a flourish, an Asian with two-inch green nails produced a computer-generated schedule. It called for the procuring of materials and determining the manufacturing site by noon Saturday, concurrent with computer design by the artist and cast making by the mortician. By midnight Saturday, the foundry was to create a cast to the artist’s specifications, produce the shell, and deliver it to the back of the palace courtyard. There Guy and his staff would do the finish work until the product was ready for positioning in view of the mourners just before dawn Sunday.
“That’s more than ambitious, Guy,” David said. “It’s audacious.”
“Audacious,” Guy said with a faraway look. “Now there’s an epitaph.”
“You’ll have to work with materials already on hand,” David said.
“I assumed that. But we’ll need you to override current projects, get this at the top of the list, and let me in there to make sure the consistency and the color are right.” “You’ll have to wear protective clothing and a hard hat,”
David said.
Guy looked at his mates. “I love new clothes.”
FOUR
IT WAS to Rayford’s advantage that the Global Community had rendered the whole of Greece virtually invisible. In realigning the world into ten regions with sub-potentateswhich Tsion Ben-Judah insisted were “kingdoms with kings”the United Holy Land States had appropriated Greece. Her potentate had lobbied for independence, as most countries’ leaders had, then pleaded for membership as one of the United European States.
Carpathia himself had mollified the Greeks with a personal visit and several appearances, during which he took full responsibility for their inclusion in “his” region.
Lukas (Laslos) Miklos had once regaled Rayford with a dead-on imitation of the potentate’s Eastern-flavored Greek as he flattered the nation into compliance.
“You are a deeply religious people,” Carpathia had told them, “with a rich place in the histories of many cherished belief systems. You are nearly as close to the cradle of civilization as you are to the United European States, so I personally argued for your inclusion as a Holy Land state. My own origins are not that far north of you. The line of demarcation that puts both my homeland and my current residence in the same region naturally includes Greece as well. I welcome you to ‘my’ region and trust you will enjoy the benefits from this area’s housing the new world capital.”
That had won over the majority of Greeks. One huge benefit to tribulation saints was that Greece seemed above suspicion as a spring of rebellion. The exploding church there went underground immediately, worried that it might otherwise draw the attention of the GC. Dr.
Ben-Judah corresponded with nearly a thousand Greek evangelists he had identified as likely part of the prophesied 144,000 witnesses. These were Messianic Jews, many of whom had attended the great conference of witnesses in Israel and had returned to their homeland to win tens of
“Yes, I do. And I can’t wait to get to this one. I’m assuming I would have access to the GC foundry, as we won’t have time to have this done off-site.”
David shut one eye. “The foundry is on three shifts, seven days a week. We could have this more cheaply done in Asia, where”
“Help me stay civil here, David, as it is clearly my fault for not clarifying.
Supreme Commander Fortunate-who, in case you couldn’t figure this out on your own, will likely be the new potentate once Carpathia is entombed-wants this monument in place no later than at dawn Sunday.”
Guy stared at David, as if to let that sink in. It almost didn’t. David looked at his watch. It was crowding 1:00 A.M. Saturday, Carpathia Standard Time. “I don’t see it,” he said, “but I don’t imagine you can be dissuaded.”
“Why, I believe we have begun to connect!”
Anything but that, David thought.
“Zhizaki,” Guy said, “if you please.”
With a flourish, an Asian with two-inch green nails produced a computer-generated schedule. It called for the procuring of materials and determining the manufacturing site by noon Saturday, concurrent with computer design by the artist and cast making by the mortician. By midnight Saturday, the foundry was to create a cast to the artist’s specifications, produce the shell, and deliver it to the back of the palace courtyard. There Guy and his staff would do the finish work until the product was ready for positioning in view of the mourners just before dawn Sunday.
“That’s more than ambitious, Guy,” David said. “It’s audacious.”
“Audacious,” Guy said with a faraway look. “Now there’s an epitaph.”
“You’ll have to work with materials already on hand,” David said.
“I assumed that. But we’ll need you to override current projects, get this at the top of the list, and let me in there to make sure the consistency and the color are right.” “You’ll have to wear protective clothing and a hard hat,”
David said.
Guy looked at his mates. “I love new clothes.”
FOUR
IT WAS to Rayford’s advantage that the Global Community had rendered the whole of Greece virtually invisible. In realigning the world into ten regions with sub-potentateswhich Tsion Ben-Judah insisted were “kingdoms with kings”the United Holy Land States had appropriated Greece. Her potentate had lobbied for independence, as most countries’ leaders had, then pleaded for membership as one of the United European States.
Carpathia himself had mollified the Greeks with a personal visit and several appearances, during which he took full responsibility for their inclusion in “his” region.
Lukas (Laslos) Miklos had once regaled Rayford with a dead-on imitation of the potentate’s Eastern-flavored Greek as he flattered the nation into compliance.
“You are a deeply religious people,” Carpathia had told them, “with a rich place in the histories of many cherished belief systems. You are nearly as close to the cradle of civilization as you are to the United European States, so I personally argued for your inclusion as a Holy Land state. My own origins are not that far north of you. The line of demarcation that puts both my homeland and my current residence in the same region naturally includes Greece as well. I welcome you to ‘my’ region and trust you will enjoy the benefits from this area’s housing the new world capital.”
That had won over the majority of Greeks. One huge benefit to tribulation saints was that Greece seemed above suspicion as a spring of rebellion. The exploding church there went underground immediately, worried that it might otherwise draw the attention of the GC. Dr.
Ben-Judah corresponded with nearly a thousand Greek evangelists he had identified as likely part of the prophesied 144,000 witnesses. These were Messianic Jews, many of whom had attended the great conference of witnesses in Israel and had returned to their homeland to win tens of
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