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Father Pierce was setting the last of the charges at one of the brother’s homes. It was a safe house for the brotherhood. It had documents and weapons for them. Although the planet was going to be destroyed, he was making sure that all traces of their activity on Trena were eradicated. He set the last charge and its timer and left the house. He was safely down the street when the charges went off. But he wasn’t paying attention to the commotion behind him. His eyes were on the skies where he could barely see the asteroids.
As he went on his way to his next safe house he wondered not for the first time since he got to Trena if he was truly on the side of the angels. He had watched the interview that Lady Wilson had given. She had seemed to be a good woman who loved her husband and her family. She didn’t seem evil or a harlot of Satan. As he thought about the many biopeople he had met in the last few weeks he had to admit that none of them seem particularly evil. Most of them seemed to be hard working honest people. True some of them were if not dishonest then not fully honest. Just like the people on the Mother World, the Theocracy capital. The Trenan people seemed to have the same cross section of good people and bad people as his people were.
His religion, not his faith was being seriously challenged the longer he stayed on Trena. He was beginning to question the church elders. He has wondering if they were truly men of god or just men who had the frailty of all mortal men who had power. The more he prayed and meditated on it the more he was coming to the conclusion that his elders in the church had lost their way.
Lost in thought he barely noticed the others looking up at sky.
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