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Pestilence knew not distance. Recently in Toledo, Noso met other Man of Stone, who was
aware that something terrible occurred and he was preparing to travel to Turdes: there also had
died many familiars by the weird Pestilence. When he knew the bad news, he decided to travel
with Noso to Zaragosa and Tolosa, in the Languedoc, where lived the Chief of the Domini
Canis. In Zaragosa they realized that the Final Death has converted in bitumen the beautiful
family of one of his cousins, mother of twelve children: the thirteen of them died in the same
moment, in the same fateful night; his Husband, a byzantine Knight, talented professor of
Greek, had no consolation. According to what he said to the Lords of Tharsis, the deceased had
revealed years ago that an esoteric sect integrated by some terrible people called «Golem» was
persecuting since ancient times to the Lords of Tharsis; when he exhaled such frightful scream,
before he died, she clung to Pedro de Creta and he believed to have distinguished the word
«Golem», modulated with the last breath. For this reason he sworn later, over the thirteen
corpses, to revenge those dead if they were really consequence of the Golems’ black magic, just
as was suggested by the horrible decomposition that was seen in the bodies: his life, explained
Pedro, was destroyed, and he would have accepted to die that night before to survive bearing
the pain to remember those he loved so much. He would consecrate his existence to search the
Golem, now his own enemies, and he would try to comply with his vow; he would revenge or die
in the attempt: was evident, he said with innocence, that only the fury that was burning in his
blood allowed to maintain him alive.
Pedro de Creta ignored where to start the quest when the monks came, relatives of his
wife, who would surely know to orientate him. The Man of Stone, whose dead familiars were
counted by hundreds, were not with mood to be affected by the small drama of the byzantine
Knight; nevertheless, they were admired for his noble naivety, the courage without limits that
he exhibited, and the wonderful fidelity for his love. Was obvious that he had no idea of the
enemies that he was facing and that he lacked of any chance against Them; but would be almost
impossible to find them by himself and that impotence would constitute his major protection.
The Lords of Tharsis were withdrawing, without saying a word, when they were reached
by Pedro de Creta: the man not believed nothing; on the contrary, he was sure that they were
hiding something and he decided to go with them; he offered the protection of his sword to the
monks, but if they refused, he would follow them at the distance. There was no manner to
persuade him to abandon his enterprise. The Men of Stone had no alternative: or they allowed
to go with them or they would have to execute him. They decided the first, because Pedro de
Creta was, clearly, a man of Honor.
The chief of the Domini Canis was waiting for them. He was Rodolfo and was born in
Seville, but in the Order he was called «Rodolfo of Spain». His wisdom was legendary, but, for
strategic motives, he never wanted to stand out in the academic ambients and he only accepted
that priorate in surrounding of Tolosa: from his monastery he operated the most internal
group of the Circulus Domini Canis. He belonged to the same family of Petreño, and he had
still a grade of kinship as second uncle of the newcomer monks, who were cousins. He placed
Pedro de Creta in a monastery that housed laical pilgrims and then he spoke with frankness:
–I know everything! The Voice of the Pure Blood revealed it to me in the moment that
occurred. And the internal sight permitted me to watch the Ritual of the Demons. Now They
have gone to the Temple of Mechizedek with the conviction that they achieved to exterminate
the House of Tharsis. Thereby, we have a little strategic advantage that we must utilize

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