Episode MMXLI – Restitution

As we awaited our trial, sentencing and fate, there came before us as had so often in the past, a chance to redeem ourselves and to make us once again worthy of entering paradise as true holy warriors and to enjoy in paradise the ministrations of many pure, modest maidens. For as we sat in the hot sun in the courtyard of doom before the holy court of true prophesies, the religious police brought out a wretched creature, a woman who had disobeyed her husband and hid her daughter away when it was his intention to sell this child as a pleasure servant to a rich man. Having broken the most sacred laws governing how a woman should behave by failing to obey the rule of her husband she was soon to be stripped bare and beheaded to punish her with death and much worse, shame. Seeing this, we at once knew that this could be our salvation and endeavored to perform a most sacred act by stoning her to death. And, this we did with small stones to prolong her agony and to ensure our forgiveness. For, is it not a holy warrior’s duty to pray many times a day and to see that the law of the great teacher is obeyed? © mmg 2008