mercy and kindness I so graciously gave them on
sparing them after their defiant uprising against me. No! This old
insanity with which they were cursed by evil men must be destroyed,
must be crushed, and it must be by my successor that it is done.
40 I speak now not as your father, but as your God, The Master Of Your
Universe whom you will obey without further question, without further
discussion. I will hear nothing more until I hear you proclaiming The
Hashons' freedom and witness your execution of the traitorous garbage.
My will must be done, as your will will be done. Now, you will bow down
in submission and swear to me that you will carry out my orders."
41 Morn backed away from the desk and knelt down. "I swear," he
pledged, "when the time comes that you have appointed, I will do what I
must do."
42 The Lord God smiled. "Good, my son, I will transmit your orders by
direct communique tomorrow so that all beneath you will know without
question, that you obey my Divine Will. Now until what you must do is
done, let me not see your beloved face again."
43 The screen went blank and Morn returned to his desk. This was not
like his father. In the last few months his communiques had been
showing signs of disturbance. They seemed confused and repetitive, as
if The Lord God had not remembered his previous orders.
44 But orders like this ....they weren't at all like his father, they
were like someone else; someone cold, despicable, despiseable and cruel
…..not like the man Morn had known for many years, and loved.
45 "Yes, father," he said to himself. "I will do what I must do, and
may I be forgiven!" He began to hurriedly put some instructions into
his computer. He must move forward with his plans now, very rapidly;
every minute lost could cost thousands of lives.
46 The next day when the communique came over the