putting something on that had been cut off, making the Body of Christ whole in ways it hadn't been when it had been missing that one person.
Having thought of that, having caught Trevin's joy and joined it to his own, Anthony couldn't bear not to issue an invitation. "Anybody else need to be baptized, as long as I'm all wet?" he called out. Three people responded. After that was done, it hit Anthony that he'd done his ceremonies of the day in the wrong order. It wasn't quite right, being soggy to do a wedding. "Excuse me, Gideon and Susanna, while I round up some dry clothes," he said.
Gideon grinned. He held up clothes his buddies had discreetly scrounged as soon as it had struck them that the pastor might need some. "Will these do?" he said.
"I like a man who looks ahead," Anthony said. "And I apologize that I didn't. I could have taken care of you first, if I'd been thinking."
"That's all right," Gideon said. "Our kids will love to hear how we got married by a pastor who had to be sponged off first, Lord willing we have kids."
Susanna nearly melted into him, at the sound of him talking about their potential kids.
Anthony hurried off to change clothes.
Era forces finished blowing up the bridge over the Snake River. They considered that they'd done a fine day's work, destroying something that they didn't want to bother defending.
They had no idea what sorts of bridges were being built between people, and between people and God, just a couple miles away, out of sight, at a pace not seen in generations. They probably wouldn't have cared had they known. They thought they were at war with bothersome, under-evolved subhumans that needed to be wiped out for the sake of eugenics, for the promotion of an orderly, scientific society, and for the prevention of thought contamination. They were deluded enough to consider those to be noble goals.
While they were there, they shot a nesting pair of eagles, just for the fun of shooting something magnificent.
One of the men felt a twinge of regret as the eagles fell, but he hid it from his fellows. Men could get killed for objecting to any sort of population control, official or unofficial, whether of animals or people (who, after all, were merely advanced animals, despite apparent evidence to the contrary – scientists said so). Unbidden, something he'd read came to mind: "Not a sparrow falls, but that God sees it." It had been in some pioneer writings that had been on display in a museum, showcasing how far mankind had advanced intellectually in just the last few generations. Until now, he'd pretty much forgotten it. Now that he'd remembered it, he had to wonder what it meant. Looking at a crumpled eagle on the ground, and struggling with an increasing sense of remorse, he had to wonder.
-The End-
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