Beyond Night
“Good Lord, what is that?”
The twins fell in on either side of him as August stepped up and they all took it in clear.
Decimus offered, speaking rapidly, “It’s like a giant green gourd, broken apart from within and oozing.”
August said, “That’s a hell of a gourd, look at the size of it.”
Crispinus backed away and said, “No, no, not a gourd. It looks like . . . an egg.”
While his twin joined him in retreat, August sighed again, walked about the altar and gave the gourd a kick. It bent in, but didn’t break. “Doesn’t feel like an egg.”
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