“Get out of here you nut!” she screamed.
He decided to leave; there was no point being forced to have her
fawn all over him when he could be out saving others. As swiftly as he
had entered, Muchoman was gone again into the shadows of the
night.
It was one step closer to a perfect world.
CHAPTER 2
A tall, quiet man had been seen sitting alone all day in the back of
Shecky’s Diner, stroking his fine beard and staring blankly. Some
presumed him deranged, others pitied his sorrowful expression. Still
others felt discomfort under his gaze: he seemed to be passing
judgment on all of them. But they had seen his kind before,
muttering to themselves on bus benches, shuffling down to the
corner store and back to their small apartments, eating alone in
crowded establishments. He was one of those worn figures peculiar
to modern cities: prophets with nothing to say, wanderers with
nowhere to go.
The man sat for hours watching the endless stream of hungry
customers order, eat, talk, pay and leave. He eavesdropped on some
conversations, scribbled some notes and tried to make sense of what
he could. How little everything had changed since he’d been gone.
And how much.
The others would show up soon and they would discuss
preparations for their long-awaited reappearance. Much had
changed since those days, and he was concerned how the inheritors
of his teachings would receive him. According to his calculations, a
good portion of earth’s citizens were followers of his teachings,
although most of them had been modified by profiteers and
charlatans.
When he and his associates first came to spread their principles,
they knew that over time the messages would become grossly
mutated, but they all hoped that the essence, the core, would hold
fast. Unfortunately, as Yeshua well knew, man had an ironic
tendency to tear apart the truth in their search for the truth. At least
he could laugh at his own failings.
There was that wonderful story about the goose who laid golden
eggs, whose owner tears it apart in the hope of finding a gold mine
H O L Y S H I T !
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