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Now, though, the Bishop and Bosquinha could see what lay on the cleared earth just down the hill from where the Speaker had slept. Now they understood the dark stains on the Speaker's hands and arms, the spatter marks on his face.
"I would rather have no treaty," said Bosquinha, "than one you had to kill to get."
"Wait before you judge," said the Bishop. "I think the night's work was more than just what we see before us."
"Very wise, Father Peregrino," said the Speaker softly.
"I'll explain it to you if you want," said Ouanda. "Ela and I understand it as well as anyone."
"It was like a sacrament," said Olhado.
Bosquinha looked at Novinha, uncomprehending. "You let him watch?"
Olhado tapped his eyes. "All the piggies will see it, someday, through my eyes."
"It wasn't death," said Quim. "It was resurrection."
The Bishop stepped near the tortured corpse and touched the seedling tree growing from the chest cavity. "His name is Human," said the Speaker.
"And so is yours," said the Bishop softly. He turned and looked around at the members of his little flock, who had already taken humanity a step further than it had ever gone before. Am I the shepherd, Peregrino asked himself, or the most confused and helpless of the sheep? "Come, all of you. Come with me to the Cathedral. The bells will soon ring for mass."
The children gathered and prepared to go. Novinha, too, stepped away from her place behind the Speaker. Then she stopped, turned back to him, looked at him with silent invitation in her eyes.
"Soon," he said. "A moment more."
She, too, followed the Bishop through the gate and up the hill into the Cathedral. ***
The mass had barely begun when Peregrino saw the Speaker enter at the back of the Cathedral. He paused a moment, then found Novinha and her family with his eyes. In only a few steps he had taken a place beside her. Where Marc o had sat, those rare times when the whole family came together.
The duties of the service took his attention; a few moments later, when Peregrino could look again, he saw that Grego was now sitting beside the Speaker. Peregrino thought of the terms of the