“What do you mean, I killed a hundred men? I only ever killed Niggers and Indians”.
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“I had to get rid of those two naughty children he had left over when his first wife died. They were eating up all our food. It’s not like we killed them, we just sent them into the woods. They are probably fine”.
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“I didn’t kill anyone, I just said she stole the money that my boyfriend took, it’s not like I could have let him get caught. It’s not my fault they hanged her, she should have defended herself better. And good riddance, I never liked her anyway, she thought she was prettier than me”.
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“Why did Mommy kill me?”, a little girl cried inconsolably.
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“Why do you look at me that way? I tortured the infidels to tell me where El Dorado is, so that we can use the gold for the greater glory of God. It’s not like I did anything evil”.
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“And you say you were doing this since the fall of Rome?”, Carol was exasperated.
“Yup”, she smiled and hugged him from behind. “Just another day in the office”.
“You are a saint, an angel and a Goddess”, he laughed.
“Guilty as charged”, she kissed his ear. “It’s not always this bad. We usually got normal people who had hard lives and died trying really hard to do everything right, and only occasionally it gets this bad. I think people got seriously insane after the 14th century plague. It caused xenophobia and paranoia, the Church got hit very hard by all the priests and monks dying, and their replacements were mostly there for the free food, and not God. From what I can tell, there’s much less chivalry and Christian virtues, and more cruelty, indifference and willingness to treat other humans like dirt. They call the previous centuries ‘the dark ages’, but to me this is the darkest I’ve seen. Materialism, godlessness and cruelty. Yuk”, she gestured in disgust. “Let’s ask the Boss if we were particularly unlucky or is this the new normal”.
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“You should have seen the ones you missed”, Azrael waved his head in dismay. “Giordano Bruno was so horrible, they tore out his blasphemous tongue before they burned him on a stake, and when he came here, I could understand them completely. It is as if blasphemy was his favourite pastime, and he got very creative with it. Incredible arrogance and self-righteousness; he was probably sucking from the same teat as that Casimir fellow you had. And Galileo was the same – arrogant, self-righteous, everybody contradicting him is an ignorant fool, and he’s right because he’s Galileo, and he doesn’t have to prove anything to dunces. I also had a so-called nobleman who outright refused to be judged by a mere commoner, and asked for a jury of his peers”, he smiled.
“That attractor is doing serious influence, and corrupting anyone who has any affinity whatsoever for this line of thinking, and I’m afraid self-righteous arrogance is so much in human nature it’s very easy to get people prodded in that direction”, Carol nodded. “Combined with the plague madness that made it very easy to treat other people like non-human things, it is causing incredible nastiness”.
“We can only do our job here”, Grace took his hand. “And it’s to filter the nasty ones out of the system permanently. Sure, Satan made it easy, but they made their choice. We’ve seen counter-examples, people who were influenced by the attractor but it disgusted them and made them choose holiness at great expense to themselves”.
“She’s right”, Azrael nodded. “But we need to report these new developments. Maybe our elders can do something”.
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“Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about it”, Lady Lakshmi shrugged. “We predicted this, and we are now at the point where Sanat Kumar’s attractors overtook our influence in power. He managed to seduce, deceive and destroy multiple angels, and the attractive power of his deception is now probably at its peak. Strategically speaking, he has the initiative now, and we can only treat the consequences and wait for it all to unfold. From what you told me, it’s not going to be pretty”.
“It’s not pretty now; how bad can it get?”, Carol wondered.
“It’s going to get so incredibly bad, you are going to remember this as the good old days”, she warned. “Godlessness is still an anomaly. It’s going to become the norm. Amorality is still an anomaly. It is going to become the norm. Vlad Dracula and Elizabeth Báthory are currently isolated examples and are seen as the worst people who ever lived. Give it a few centuries and people like them are going to make up a significant percentage of the population”.
“Who’s Elizabeth Báthory?”
“Oh, a woman who discovered that blood of young virgin girls makes her skin look younger, and she made it into her habit to lure them, slaughter them and bleed them so she could bathe in their blood. She killed three hundred or so innocent girls. Poor Hypatia had to deal with her and came to me in tears”.
“May God help us, holy Mother”, Carol was disgusted and shocked in equal measure.
“Indeed”, she nodded.
“However, on the good side of things, just before this tide of darkness we had Juan and Theresa. Both are wonderful and a great comfort in these times”.