1812

"I remember you now! i remember you now!" Lindstrom is almost shouting, a rapt smile on his face while he is pointing at Jesus. "You were with me throughout. Every minute of every day. You would not leave me alone. You knew. You knew..." "I knew how fragile and in need of constant presence you were, Sven. Just as you are now, much and greatly in need of me. Well, here I am." "You are giving me another chance?" "From now on, you three are going to be living here with us. Permanently. You, Isabella and Caspar. Do I have your consent, all three of you?"

1811

Sven Lindstrom is looking up at everyone, eyes almost like two shining sapphires. "I was here once, wasn't I?" "Well, I did just remind you", says Mary. "Humlegarden!" he exclaims. "That's where you both found me. You and the old man." "We do both happen to have names, you know, young man", chides Mary affectionately. "I happen to be the Mother of Our Lord here, and Joseph also happens to be my most noble spouse." "And you had a passport and clothing for me to bring along, or, wait, I think I had time to pack everything I needed at home, but you did provide me with a passport, and after that we were at the airport. It is slowly coming back to me." "You swallowed the water", said Jesus "Which is what made you forget and for a while botched completely your usefulness in my service..."

1810

"Could somebody explain all this to me, please", Says a clearly perplexed Francois. "After dinner, if you wish", says Jesus, "I will give you a tour of the grounds and show you where the fountain used to be. Suffice it to say, the Millionth Council, the angelic heirachy that governs your planet, had this place built at the turn of the century. They designated it a place of rest, refuge, safety, and education and learning, but some of their mortal coplanners had some rather barmy ideas about spirituality, and with the Councils's blessing, they installed this fountain with a basin that would spout a particularly potent form of water that would induce amnesia on whomsoever drank of it. That was useful up to a point, but then, increasingly, were being brought to us those who had no need of forgetting and much need of repentance, cleansing of soul, and renewal of life and spirit in my service, and it is impossible to encounter real repentance and real healing in such a state of induced forgetfulness...

1809

"It wasn't my intention to swallow the water when you baptised me, Jesus", says Sven. "My darling twin sibling", mutters Stella, "The legendary bumbler. It actually still amazes me, Sven, that our father would even think of using you in his service." "Says the immutable authority of the oldest profession", snaps her brother. "I am retired", she gloats. "That was when I had the pool drained and the bat sculpture destroyed", says Jesus.

1808

"And you, Sven, were also enslaved by Kenny." "Sven pauses. His eyes closed. "I was obsessed with Kenny." "You were in love with Kenny." Sven doesn't answer. He remains silent, head bowed and eys closed, his two large hands closed into huge scary fists on his lap. "Your father was furious. Desiring, lusting, hungering to devour others as though they are food, that was perfectly acceptable. But to love. That is a language the dark side simply cannot comprehend", says Jesus wistfully. "They have no vocabulary for love, no concept of love. Love is their enemy, and to your evil father you had already slipped off to the other side." "And that", says our Lord's mother, is when we came to get you, and to bring you here, Sven...."

1807

"Greta was one of my best students. She was my best student" says Sven, perplexed. "How could she do such a thing". And now his head is bowed in grief. "I wish I could say my sister wasn't capable of anything so monstrous", says Erik. "But even though she is my sister, apart from all the noise she makes about climate change and global warming and environmental destruction, she is harder than stone. I agree. She has no conscience." "What I can't understand", say I, "is why she wanted me. She knew I was a fag from the getgo." "Greta was under orders, through me, to get to Kenny whom he badly wanted to enlist in his service." "The correct word here", says Jesus, "is enslave."

1806

"It was never revealed who was driving that car that killed Elvira and Alicia", says Sven tersely. "Greta played a role in this ", says Jesus. "My sister", says Erik. "My wife" say I. "The dark lord's servant", says Jesus. "She was driving the car", says Jesus. "She had only just gone over to the side of the darkness, and had fallen under their thrall. She had and has no conscience." "But we never became lovers", says Sven. "It was forbidden by my father..." "Whom through Greta had revitalized his claim and pulled you back into his service..."

1805

Fortunately for everyone, Sven, you were raised by Caspar. The love and care that he showed you completely confused the wiring in your brain and soul that had been placed there by your father the dark lord, because it was impossible for you to follow through competently on his orders to commit evil. Even when you were stationed in England in order to sabotage the efforts of the enigma machine, instead of following through on your orders you fell in love and got into a steamy and prolonged love affair with none other than Alan Turing, the famous and homosexusl decoder of the Enigma, and he was not about to tell you one blessed thing. The Allies won the war and your father called you in for your punishment, which resulted in you being expelled from his presence in exile. You resettled in Sweden and soon launched your career as a university professor of anthropology. Much later, still impossibly youthful, you married, and became a father....

1804

"But then came that horrible dreadful war. That most destructive and hideous outbreak of global hostiliies ever seen on the earth, when the cancer of human wickedness reached its apogee, and the evil one found out where you were and sent his emissaries to fetch you back to Europe. Even in neutral Sweden they had work for you to do to sabotage the allies and facilitate what appeared to be for a while a likely victory for Hitler and his forces of evil. I would also like to emphasize here my complete and utter disapproval of war and warfare, even so called legitimate defensive warfare, for those that take up the sword, by the sword shall perish. It was only for my love for the innocents being slaughtered that I allowed victory for the Allies, but truth be told, even had the Germans won, their victory would have been pyrrhic and shortlived, and other forces would have come into play to completely overthrow them and the evil they were perpetrating....

1803

"Sven", says Jesus, directing on him his tender and fiery gaze, "Even though you above everyone here has rebelled against me and have done the utmost to make my work difficult for me, I knew you and began calling you into my service from the very day when Caspar led your mother to her seduction and to conceive both you and your twin in her womb. Even when you left Sweden in 1930 to live under a different name in San Francisco where you began your university studies. Very effetively you lived under your father's radar, since I was veiling you from his eye, and you were so craving freedom and deliverance from his presence, control and evil tutelage. And I took care during that time, to keep you apart, and to prevent him from controlling or influencing you...

1802

"That fountain was never my idea, nor this mansion. But my mother had been networking extensively with the Millionth Council, who are under her authority, and they had agreed without consulting me first that this place would be of great service to our work. And they were partly right. In recent years, when this place was bequeathed to me, I agreed to let them retain their oversight, because even though they are under my divine authority, I will have no slaves, and the Millionth Council, which is a vast angelic hierarchy within a far vaster hierarchy of my servants, is very capable of making their own decisions. With my guidance of course, but I simply could not be persuaded that a fountain of forgetfulness inducing amnesia to all that drunk from it, and with that nasty little demon representative of the very powers I have crushed under my heel, it simply had to go....

1801

"And I should also add, my lord", says Stella, that being under Caspar's tutelage helped my twin and I to both grow towards you. Isn't that right, Sven, and you could particularly speak with some authority here because you were directly brought up by Caspar. "Sven?" Stella's sibling has remained notably silent, and now appears almost comatose, except that his eyes are open. Wide open. "Sven, ny child", says Jesus. "It is time to awake." He is blinking, as though having just been roused from a deep slumber. "My beloved child", says Jesus tenderly. "Is there anything you wish to say." "I was dreaming", he mumbles in a monotone. "Of when you immersed me in the fountain. And I swallowed the water." "I have had the fountain drained, and that hideous bat spout destroyed", says Jesus....

1800

"I it was that assigned you to the care and nurturing of Sven, and to your contact with Stella, because already a strange tenderness was beginning to grow in your heart, and that tendernous made you into a caring and compassionate stepfather, qualities that are an absolute offense to the dark one, and then, after your time of step-parenting was finished, I put you under another sleep, knowing that once you were awoken and summoned by your master that that would be the time to snatch his prey from him. And now, dear Caspar, I have already enlisted you into my service..."