Chapter 3

“On questions of right conduct we discoursed daily,

when the lives of the patriarchs or the precepts of the Proverbs were being read, in order that, trained and instructed thereby, you might become accustomed to walk in the paths of our elders,

and to tread in their steps…”

-Saint Ambrose

Nathaniel tried to follow as the guards rushed Joshua out into the nave. The crowd, having parted to let them through, closed back in, trapping him in a sea of people that streamed slowly towards the narrow exit and swept him along until finally bringing him out into the open air.

People had returned en mass to the Square, filling it once more despite the scattered piles of rubble and da...

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