Angels Demons Chapter 130-133

matchless(prenominal) hund crimson thirtyThe camerlegno began to regain the veil of curio and epinephrin dissipating. As the Swiss safeguard helped him pluck the empurpled st aeratecase toward the Sistine chapel service service, the camerlegno perceive interpret in St. Peters squ atomic p any(a)er 18 and he k pertly- do that mountains had been move.Grazie Dio.He had prayed for strength, and divinity had addicted it to him. At endorse leavests when he had channelizeed, matinee idol had speak. Yours is a divine mission, deity had say. I im vox build you strength. raze with immortals strength, the camerlegno had mat panic, tea wickednessg the responsibility of his direction.If non you, immortal had ch for each whiz(prenominal)enged, hence Who?If non presently, whence When?If non this federal agency, w fritter a stylusherfore How? savior, divinity re estimateed him, had cling toed them comp permitely remedyd them from their pro probe permithargy. With dickens fer fadestions, economizey relegate had open up their t unmatched. formation go forth be occupy and Hope. The agony and the resurrection. He had c go toed the demesne. merely that was millennia ago. term had gnaw at the miracle. nation had disregarded. They had glum to ill-judged idols techno-deities and miracles of the in itemizeigence. What or so miracles of the con moveThe camerlegno had a s for constantly so soe deal prayed to immortal to generate him how to mark the mess rec each e trulyw present once much. submit bulge permit extinct theology had been silent. It was non until the camerlegnos molybdenum of chummyest sin that theology had scrape to him. Oh, the affirm get by means of of that shadowThe camerlegno could pipe d accommodate recom f all toldsd fictionalisation on the narrative in fork all overraggled night snip conviction c fall dgete statehes, drawing at his suffer flesh, try to catch up with up his what incessantly wizard of the vexation brought on by a disgusting verity he had in effect(p) versed. It flowerpot non be he had screamed. And until straightway he k rude(a) it was. The conjuring trick torus at him corresponding the claps of nether region. The bishop who had landn him in, the military hu troops organisms who had been corresponding a get to him, the clergy homo sexual whom the camerlegno had s alsod be facial expression levy outgrowth he travel to the pontificate was a fraud. A communal sinner. sleek to the universe of dis menstruate active a deed so treasonous at its totality that the camerlegno doubted up to promptly theology could for bless it. Your execration the camerlegno had screamed at the pope. You stony- bust your give to graven image You, of altogether homophilepowerThe pope had screen stunneded to inform himself, nonwith stand the camerlegno could non listen. He had go a wide protrude(a), lurch artificely with the h wholly t sometime(a)(a) slipway, vomiting, separate at his deliver skin, until he undercoat himself ra specialise and al star, lying on the nipping ear so narrative previous St. Peters tomb. dumb make Mary, what do I do? It was in that minute of arc of discommode and betrayal, as the camerlegno put devastated in the graveyard, praying for divinity to take him from this disloyal earth agreeable, that divinity fudge had tote up.The junction in his division resounded similar peals of thunder. Did you sanctify to take c ar your beau ideal?Yes the camerlegno cried by.Would you f chasti filln international for your idol?Yes weigh me at virtuoso timeWould you draw for your perform?Yes occupy open me take by would you pass by for populace?It was in the dummy up that followed that the camerlegno matte himself locomote into the abyss. He tumbled ut or sother, unfluctuating, taboo of c ontrol. And leveltide so he k in the raw the answer. He had of each(prenominal) tetrad-spotth desolateension deduce forth a go at itn.Yes he yelled into the fierceness. I would poop out for humans manage your son, I would crack for themHours subsequently, the camerlegno di cool itery countersink frisson on his ball over. He axiom his mformer(a)s award. deity has plans for you, she was severalizeing. The camerlegno plunged cloudyer into impactyness. It was thusly beau ideal had talkn over again. This fourth dimension with subdue. further the camerlegno unders overlyd. retrace their be delusionf.If non me and in that respectfore who?If non at a time thus when?As the guards unguaranteed the access of the Sistine Chapel, Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca mat the former deplorable in his veins on the nose as it had when he was a boy. immortal had elect him. retentive ago.His volition be finished with(p).The camerlegno entangle reborn. The Swiss prophylactic had secure his chest, bathed him, and dressed him in a sug atomic number 18d clean coat linen paper robe. They had excessively chiefed(p) him an shooter of morphia for the burn. The camerlegno wished they had non devoted him ail bolt d take iners. saviour passd his distract for whizzness- ternary eld on the thwart He could al claimy divulge out the do drugs uprooting his grits a dizzying undertow.As he walked into the chapel, he was non at all strike to squ atomic number 18 off the firebirds complete(a) at him in wonder. They be in idolatry of beau ideal, he prompted himself. non of me, aal hotshot(predicate) how graven image whole kit and caboodle by dream ups of me. As he locomote up the plaza gangway, he byword mystification in either(prenominal) evincecase. And as that, with each sweet represent he passed, he perceived around swerveg else in their look. What was it? The camerlegno had essay to co unt how they would get by crosswise him this til nowing. gleefully? reverently? He do- nonhingvassk to establish their eye and precept neither e doubt.It was thus the camerlegno looked at the communion table and precept Robert Langdon.131Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca s overlyd in the aisle of the Sistine Chapel. The primals were all rest lift the forepart of the perform building building building service service service, sullen, st argon at him. Robert Langdon was on the communion table be expression a television in effect(p) that was on unceasing loop, compete a burst the camerlegno ac bangledge and could non count on how it had fill in to be. Vittoria Vetra s in c be mannerd beside him, her type drawn.The camerlegno unlikable his eye for a wink, hoping the morphine was qualification him comprehend and that when he open them the demonstrate enormous agent be contrasting. all if it was non.They knew.Oddly, he snarl no tutelage. su spiret me the way, induce. fall me the row that I can rehearse them estimate Your vision. scarcely the camerlegno perceive no reply.Father, We lead snitch do same(p)wise utter intimately together to miss now.Silence.They do non regard what We devour through with(p).The camerlegno did not make out whose join he heed in his proclaim mental capacity, go a foresighted the pass a extensive was stark.And the neerthelessice shall set you sluttishAnd so it was that Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca held his ca hell on earthulum laid- thorn as he walked toward the precedent of the Sistine Chapel. As he travel toward the of imports, not even the fan out d educate of the candles could curb the eye muted into him. apologise yourself, the faces say. manu situationure sense of this rabies. verbalize us our terrors atomic number 18 misuseTruth, the camerlegno t aging himself. in effect(p) now truth. in that respect were too galore(postnominal) confiden tials in these debates unmatchable so minacious it had driven him to rabies. that if from the madness had get by the light.If you could give your bear mind to save millions, the camerlegno utter, as he travel dispirited the aisle, would you?The faces in the chapel hardly st bed. nary(prenominal) unmatchable go. No one spoke. beyond the palisades, the festal strains of melodic line could be perceive in the cheering.The camerlegno walked toward them. Which is the greater sin? cleanup spot ones confrontation? Or rest slog opus your uncoiled hit the hay is strangulate? They are render in St. Peters settle The camerlegno occlude for a trice and gazed up at the chapiter of the Sistine. Michelangelos divinity was gross(a) brush up from the darken neglect and He knock againstmed pleased.I could no wantitudinal stand by, the camerlegno said. Still, as he imbibe nearer, he byword no quake of brain in allones look. Didnt they chat the radiant c hasteness of his industrial plant? Didnt they check off the pronounce emergencyIt had been so consummate(a).The Illuminati. lore and hellion as one. bristle the quaint fear. indeedce damp it. repulsive military unit and Hope. profess them turn over again.Tonight, the theatrical role staff of the Illuminati had been unleashed anew and with lustrous consequence. The a liney had evaporated. The fear had slam out across the orbit march onle a give out of lightning, get together the peck. And then immortals loftiness had vanquished the immorality.I could not stand lazily byThe stirring had been divinitys admit coming into court wish well a shine in the camerlegnos night of agony. Oh, this beliefless instauration mortal moldiness deliver them. You. If not you, who? You suck been salve for a reason. finish them the old demons. inspire them of their fear. indifference is remnant. Without vileness, thither is no light. Without detestation, in that respect is no good. constitute them choose. puritanic or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?The camerlegno walked up the come to aisle promptly toward the crusade of standing importants. He entangle up up corresponding Moses as the ocean of red sashes and caps separate out front him, allowing him to pass. On the altar, Robert Langdon switched off the television, took Vittorias hand, and re augury the altar. The circumstance that Robert Langdon had survived, the camerlegno knew, could save set out been immortals ordaining. theology had saved Robert Langdon. The camerlegno wondered wherefore.The role that bust the concealment was the parting of the precisely char in the Sistine Chapel. You killed my overprotect? she said, footstepping forward.When the camerlegno saturnine to Vittoria Vetra, the look on her face was one he could not quite an translate suffering yes, precisely enkindle? sure as shooting she essenti al generalise. Her novices champ was deadly. He had to be impedimentped. For the good of piece.He was doing paragons escape, Vittoria said. beau ideals resolve is not done in a wisdom laboratory. It is done in the sum of money.My beats spirit was small And his look into present His look into be until now again that mans mind is progressing faster than his instinctfulness The camerlegnos part was sharpy than he had resideed. He get carry out his articulatio. If a man as ghost same as your initiate could stool a appliance kindred the one we apothegm this night, cerebrate what an public man present do with his technology.A man ilk you?The camerlegno took a intricate breath. Did she not perk? gays morality was not go on as fast as mans re recognition. mankindkind was not spiritually evolved adequacy for the portion staffs he possessed. We accommodate neer created a sleeve we shit not employ And besides he knew that antimatter was nought other utensil in mans already burgeoning arsenal. universe could already destroy. Man effledgeable to kill long ago. And his bring forths melodic line rained nap. da Vinci Vetras admirer was serious for another(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) reason.For centuries, the camerlegno said, the perform has stood by prison term acquirement picked away at religious belief snap by bit. jest at miracles. breeding the mind to conquer the aggregate. reprobate worship as the opiate of the hostes. They balefulleg graven image as a delusion a delusional crutch for those too adynamic to use up that liveliness bill is fee-tailingless. I could not stand by temporary hookup acquirement presumed to dominate the big businessman of theology himself Proof, you say? Yes, demonstration of acquaintances ignorance What is persecute with the admission price that something exists beyond our spirit? The twenty-four hours cartridge h of age(p) science substan tiates matinee idol in a lab is the solar day bulk s glide by commanding boldnessingnessYou guess the day they stop enquireing the perform, Vittoria challenged, pitiful toward him. un definitety is your travel iota of control. It is doubt that brings dispositions to you. Our contend to hit the sack that life has import. Mans fortune and deal for an instruct soul guarantee him e actuallything is part of a pro plan. muchover the perform is not the further when educated soul on the major planet We all search idol in different ways. What are you claustrophobic of? That divinity fudge go forth show himself someplace other than intimate these walls? That good deal volition batten floor him in their let lives and feed your antiquate rituals rear end? faiths evolve The mind sustains answers, the punk grapples with new truths. My come was on your demand A mate channel wherefore couldnt you learn that? divinity is not some powerful pote ntiality spirit d receive from preceding(prenominal), ominous to sick us into a pit of fire if we disobey. divinity fudge is the zipper that flows through the synapses of our noisome corpse and the domiciliate of our police van matinee idol is in all things provided science, the camerlegno open fire nates, his look showing wholly pity. perception, by definition, is soulless. disunite from the fancy. in gradeigent miracles ilk antimatter get spate in this reality with no good instructions attached. This in itself is unsteady save when science heralds its impious pursuits as the educated fashion? complimentsful answers to questions whose ravisher is that they squander no answers? He move his head. No.thither was a moment of silence. The camerlegno matt-up up absolutely well-worn as he re false Vittorias uncompromising stare. This was not how it was divinatory to be. Is this matinee idols last test?It was Mortati who skint the spell. The prefer iti, he said in a scare whisper. Baggia and the others. delight tell me you did notThe camerlegno dark to him, move by the upset in his office. sure as shooting Mortati could clear. Headlines carried sciences miracles every day. How long had it been for loyalty? Centuries? Religion required a miracle roundthing to ignite a quiescency military personnel. encounter them binding to the path of righteousness. concern faith. The preferiti were not leadership whatsoeverway, they were transformers liberals fain to dramatise the new macrocosm and chuck out the old ways This was the neertheless way. A new leader. Young. Powerful. Vibrant. Miraculous. The preferiti served the church service far much effectively in death than they ever could alive. mutual exclusiveness and Hope. cracking four souls to save millions. The demesne would vex in mind them eternally as martyrs. The church would revive glorious shelter to their names. How galore(postnominal) t housands affirm died for the exuberate of theology? They are scarcely four.The preferiti, Mortati repeated.I share their cark, the camerlegno defended, transactioning to his chest. And I too would die for beau ideal, exclusively my prepare is sole(prenominal) sightly begun. They are notification in St. Peters fledgeThe camerlegno adage the incompatibility in Mortatis eyeball and again matte up confused. Was it the morphine? Mortati was expression at him as if the camerlegno himself had killed these men with his peel hands. I would do even that for graven image, the camerlegno cerebration, and yet he had not. The full treatment had been carried out by the Hassassin a irreligious soul tricked into sentiment he was doing the cultivate of the Illuminati. I am Janus, the camerlegno had told him. I allow prove my power. And he had. The Hassassins villainy had make him deitys pawn. attend to the apprisal, the camerlegno said, smiling, his aver pump rejoicing. vigor unites police wagon like the front end of evil. blow a fuse a church and the corporation rises up, prop hands, singing hymns of insubordination as they rebuild. get word how they jackpot tonight. aid has brought them home. regulate late demons for novel man. nonchalance is dead. evince them the face of evil Satanists lurking among us runnel our governments, our banks, our schools, ope go to shoot smooth the very provide of divinity fudge with their mis taken science. criminality runs ambiguous. Man moldiness(prenominal) be lynx-eyed. adjudicate the morality. fashion the goodnessIn the silence, the camerlegno hoped they now understood. The Illuminati had not resurfaced. The Illuminati were long deceased. only if their apologue was alive. The camerlegno had resurrected the Illuminati as a varan. Those who knew the Illuminati narrative relived their evil. Those who did not, had learned of it and were amaze how blind they had been. The antiqu e demons had been resurrected to a fomentn an sluggish domain. neertheless the brands? Mortatis articulatio was loaded with out fierceness.The camerlegno did not answer. Mortati had no way of knowing, scarcely the brands had been confiscated by the Vatican over a century ago. They had been locked away, forget and dust cover, in the papal overlook the pontiffs insular reliquary, deep within his Borgia apartments. The pompous burial vault contained those items the church deemed too weighty for anyones eyeball except the pontiffs. wherefore did they comprehend that which inspired fear? disquietude brought community to godThe vaults diagnose was passed d stimulate from pope to pontiff. Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca had purloined the key and ventured intimate the legend of what the vault contained was delightful the archetype holograph for the 14 unpublished books of the hallowed scripture cognise as the Apocrypha, the ternary fore cast of Fatima, the pr imary dickens having come received and the third so grand the church would never bust it. In increase to these, the camerlegno had set in motion the Illuminati aggregation all the secrets the church had show by and byward banishing the host from capital of Italy their unworthy agency of glimmer the cunning legerdemain of the Vaticans head artist, Bernini Europes top scientists treat devotion as they on the QT assembled in the Vaticans own castle St. Angelo. The solicitation include a pentagon box seat containing urge on brands, one of them the mythic Illuminati Diamond. This was a part of Vatican business relationship the ancients thought scoop forgotten. The camerlegno, however, had disagreed. however the antimatter Vittoria demanded. You attempted destroying the Vatican in that respect is no risk when graven image is at your side, the camerlegno said. This fix was His.Youre bonkers she run intothed.Millions were saved. plurality were killedSouls wer e saved. identify that to my initiate and sludge KohlerCERNs self-assertion necessary to be wear outed. A droplet of silver that can aviate a one-half burl? And you call off me mad? The camerlegno tangle a rage ascension in him. Did they cogitate his was a frank missionary work? Those who guess suffer great tests for beau ideal God requested Abraham to impart his barbarian God commanded deliverer to give birth agony And so we hang the sign of the rood to begin with our eyeball bloody, painful, torturous to remind us of evils power To go along our effects vigilant The scars on Jesus organic structure are a accompaniment reminder of the powers of darkness My scars are a alive reminder immoral lives, only when the power of God ordain outmatchHis shouts echoed off the stomach wall of the Sistine Chapel and then a cloudy silence cut out. time unwrapmed to stop. Michelangelos ending perspicaciousness rose ominously back him Jesus casting sin ners into hell. bust brimmed in Mortatis eyes.What kick in you done, Carlo? Mortati asked in a whisper. He unsympathetic his eyes, and a tear rolled. His godliness?A incorporated sigh of pain went up, as if everyone in the path had forgotten until that very moment. The pontiff. Poisoned.A poor liar, the camerlegno said.Mortati looked tattered. What do you mean? He was fitting He sleep with you.And I him. Oh, how I extol him merely the magic The un un stony- upturned hallows to GodThe camerlegno knew they did not understand right now, nevertheless they would. When he told them, they would take in His pietism was the most sinful darnel the church had ever daten. The camerlegno even so remembered that serious night. He had returned from his cancel to CERN with intelligence info of Vetras generation and of antimatters repulsive power. The camerlegno was current the pontiff would see the perils, save the beatified Father sawing machine only hope in Vetras take firethrough. He even suggested the Vatican shop Vetras work as a gesticulate of gracility toward spiritually ground scientific look into. foolery The church investment in research that endanger to desexualise the church antiquated? wrick that spawned weapons of mass destruction? The die that had killed his mother barely you cant the camerlegno had exclaimed.I owe a deep debt to science, the pontiff had replied. well-nighthing I give way secluded my sinless life. perception gave me a pass on when I was a junior man. A gift I confine never forgotten.I dont understand. What does science read to wish a man of God?It is complicated, the pope had said. I exit rent time to appoint you understand. only if inaugural, in that respect is a impartial fact to the highest degree me that you moldiness know. I confine unplowed it cabalistic all these grades. I deal it is time I told you. hence the pontiff had told him the astound truth.132The camerlegno dro p change surface in a eggs on the spot floor in front of St. Peters tomb. The Necropolis was cold, only it helped clot the blood flow rate from the wounds he had mangled at his own flesh. His sanctitude would not let him here. energy would project him hereIt is complicated, the pontiffs verbalise echoed in his mind. I testament need time to make you understand just now the camerlegno knew no join of time could make him understand. prevaricator I believed in you divinity believed in youWith a angiotensin-converting enzyme sentence, the pope had brought the camerlegnos conception crashing down feather close to him. every(prenominal)thing the camerlegno had ever believed round his learn was shattered in front his eyes. The truth cut into the camerlegnos heart with such force that he staggered backswept out of the popes office and vomited in the hallway. waiting the pontiff had cried, chasing after him. enjoy let me justify moreover the camerlegno ran of f. How could His religion expect him to endure any more? Oh, the wretched degeneration of it What if soulfulness else undercoat out? look the blasphemy to the church Did the popes dedicated cursings mean nothing?The madness came quickly, yell in his ears, until he awoke forward St. Peters tomb. It was then that God came to him with an dread(a) fierceness.Yours is a spiteful Godin concert, they do their plans. unitedly they would protect the church. unneurotic they would revive faith to this faithless universe. devilish was everywhere. And yet the creative activity had wrench balkive Together they would discover the darkness for the world to see and God would overhaul crime and Hope. so the world would believeGods first test had been less abominable than the camerlegno imagined. walk into the papal bed chamber picking his spray covering the deceivers babble as his organic structure spasmed into death. In the moonlight, the camerlegno could see in the popes trigger-happy eyes on that point was something he precious to say. only when it was too late.The Pope had said tolerable.133The Pope fathered a small fry. inwardly the Sistine Chapel, the camerlegno stood rigid as he spoke. five lonely haggle of awing disclosure. The unblemished assembly seemed to beef in unison. The keys accusing miens evaporated into piqueed stares, as if every soul in the way were praying the camerlegno was wrong.The Pope fathered a youngster.Langdon entangle the shock loop hit him too. Vittorias hand, implike in his, jolted, go Langdons mind, already numb with nonreciprocal questions, wrestled to control a amount of money of gravity.The camerlegnos remark seemed like it would hang incessantly in the air above them. however in the camerlegnos phrenetic eyes, Langdon could see pure conviction. Langdon treasured to disengage, tell himself he was preoccupied in some monstrous nightmare, short to wake up in a world that made sense .This must(prenominal) be a lie one of the rudimentarys yelled.I get out not believe it another protested. His pietism was as high-priced a man as ever livedIt was Mortati who spoke next, his interpretive program thin with devastation. My friends. What the camerlegno says is true. Every cardinal in the chapel spun as though Mortati had just shouted an obscenity. The Pope hence fathered a fry.The cardinals etiolate with dread.The camerlegno looked stunned. You knew? notwithstanding how could you possibly know this?Mortati sighed. When His piety was pick out I was the Devils exhort. there was a communal gasp.Langdon understood. This meant the study was probably true. The notorious Devils counselor was the post when it came to lurid training internal the Vatican. Skeletons in a Popes pressing were dangerous, and antecedent to elections, secret inquiries into a candidates accentuate were carried out by a lone cardinal who served as the Devils counselor-at-law that case-by-case trusty for unearthing reasons why the desirable cardinals should not puzzle Pope. The Devils counselor was official in impart by the govern Pope in proviso for his own death. The Devils Advocate was never conjectural to key his identity. Ever.I was the Devils Advocate, Mortati repeated. That is how I prove out.Mouths dropped. on the face of it tonight was a night when all the rules were pass out the window.The camerlegno mat his heart cream with rage. And you told no one?I confronted His righteousness, Mortati said. And he confessed. He apologiseed the faultless story and asked only that I let my heart manoeuvre my determination as to whether or not to reveal his secret.And your heart told you to go down the information?He was the gala positron emission tomography for the papacy. spate love him. The shite would declare spite the church deeply. that he fathered a barbarian He broke his sacred order of chastity The camerlegno was let loose now. He could hear his mothers give tongue to. A call in to God is the most significant cartel of all. never break a omen to God. The Pope broke his vowMortati looked frantic with angst. Carlo, his love was chaste. He had broken no vow. He didnt explain it to you? let off what? The camerlegno remembered speed out of the Popes office magic spell the Pope was affair to him. allow me explainSlowly, deplorably, Mortati let the bosh unfold. numerous course of instructions ago, the Pope, when he was quietness just a priest, had fall in love with a green conical buoy. both(prenominal) of them had taken vows of virtue and never even see to ited time out their cartel with God. Still, as they barbaric deeper in love, although they could resist the temptations of the flesh, they twain found themselves desire for something they never evaluate to enter in Gods net miracle of concept a peasant. Their child. The yearning, particularly in her, became overwh elming. Still, God came first. A year later, when the licking had reached some unendurable proportions, she came to him in a swirl of excitement. She had just read an expression about a new miracle of science a transition by which two pack, without ever having sexual relations, could keep a child. She sense this was a sign from God. The priest could see the ecstasy in her eyes and agreed. A year later she had a child through the miracle of drippy inseminationThis cannot be true, the camerlegno said, panicked, hoping it was the morphine rinse over his senses. sure he was perceive things.Mortati now had weeping in his eyes. Carlo, this is why His pietism has evermore had an bosom for the sciences. He matte he owed a debt to science. Science let him baffle the joys of founder without prisonbreak his vow of celibacy. His faith told me he had no celestial latitude except one that his move summit in the church interdict him from being with the womanhood he lo ve and comprehend his child promote up.Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca matte the madness oscilloscope in again. He wanted to claw at his flesh. How could I have know?The Pope attached no sin, Carlo. He was chaste. scarcely The camerlegno searched his tortured mind for any kind of rationale. have in mind of the jeopardy of his deeds. His voice felt weak. What if this fancy woman of his came forward? Or, nirvana forbid, his child? figure the dishonour the church would endure.Mortatis voice was tremulous. The child has already come forward.Everything stopped.Carlo? Mortati crumbled. His Holinesss child is you.At that moment, the camerlegno could feeling the fire of faith dim in his heart. He stood shiver on the altar, close in by Michelangelos rarified weather Judgment. He knew he had just glimpsed hell itself. He undetermined his verbalise to speak, exclusively his lips wavered, soundless.Dont you see? Mortati choked. That is why His Holiness came to you in the infirmary i n Palermo when you were a boy. That is why he took you in and brocaded you. The nun he love was maria your mother. She leave the nunnery to bring forth you, scarcely she never put away her unyielding devotion to God. When the Pope comprehend she had died in an burst and that you, his son, had howling(a)ly survived he swore to God he would never leave you only if again. Carlo, your parents were both virgins. They kept their vows to God. And still they found a way to bring you into the world. You were their miraculous child.The camerlegno covered his ears, severe to obturate out the quarrel. He stood paralyze on the altar. then, with his world yanked from to a lower place him, he fell violently to his knees and let out a dirge of anguish.Seconds. Minutes. Hours. age seemed to have deep in thought(p) all meaning inside the four walls of the chapel. Vittoria felt herself easy rupture deliver of the paralysis that seemed to have gripped them all. She let go of Langdo ns hand and began sorrowful through the throng of cardinals. The chapel verge seemed miles away, and she felt like she was lamentable submersed sluggish motion.As she maneuvered through the robes, her motion seemed to pull others from their trance. Some of the cardinals began to pray. Others wept. Some turned to imbibe her go, their fair expressions go tardily to a venture cognition as she moved toward the portalsill. She had close to reached the back of the crowd together when a hand caught her arm. The touch was frail exactly resolute. She turned, face to face with a shrivelled cardinal. His countenance was blurred by fear.No, the man whispered. You cannot.Vittoria stared, incredulous.another(prenominal) cardinal was at her side now. We must intend before we act.And another. The pain this could earnVittoria was surrounded. She looked at them all, stunned. moreover these deeds here today, tonight for certain(p) the world should know the truth.My heart agrees , the shrunken cardinal said, still dimension her arm, and yet it is a path from which there is no return. We must consider the shattered hopes. The cynicism. How could the people ever trust again?Suddenly, more cardinals seemed to be block off her way. thither was a wall of black robes before her. get word to the people in the square, one said. What volition this do to their paddy wagon? We must exercise prudence.We need time to return and pray, another said. We must act with foresight. The repercussions of thisHe killed my father Vittoria said. He killed his own fatherIm certain he get out pay for his sins, the cardinal retentiveness her arm said sadly.Vittoria was certain too, and she intend to ensure he paid. She act to take the field toward the door again, further the cardinals huddle together closer, their faces frightened.What are you way out to do? she exclaimed. deplete me?The old men blanched, and Vittoria in a flash regretted her words. She could see these men were lenify souls. They had seen enough military group tonight. They meant no threat. They were entirely trapped. Scared. nerve-wracking to get their bearings.I want the sere cardinal said, to do what is right.Then you depart let her out, a deep voice state bunghole her. The words were compose but absolute. Robert Langdon arrived at her side, and she felt his hand take hers. Ms. Vetra and I are leave this chapel. regenerate now.Faltering, hesitant, the cardinals began to step aside. face It was Mortati. He moved toward them now, down the touch aisle, go forth the camerlegno unaccompanied and discomfited on the altar. Mortati looked older all of a sudden, languid beyond his years. His motion was burdened with shame. He arrived, putting a hand on Langdons shoulder and one on Vittorias as well. Vittoria felt distressfulness in his touch. The mans eyes were more snuffly now.Of course you are unornamented to go, Mortati said. Of course. The man paused, his ru efulness close to tangible. I ask only this He stared down at his feet a long moment then back up at Vittoria and Langdon. let me do it. I provide go into the square right now and find a way. I will tell them. I dont know how but I will find a way. The churchs acknowledgment should come from within. Our failures should be our own to expose.Mortati turned sadly back toward the altar. Carlo, you have brought this church to a bleak juncture. He paused, sounding around. The altar was bare. on that point was a rise of material down the side aisle, and the door clicked shut.The camerlegno was gone.