Branding

Master of Hoogstraten 

“Francesco, we like your branding and sincerely hope you will oblige its necessary evolution.”

“His Holiness has also heard the word from God, and has been told that you will found a Community so broad and large that it will continue throughout the ages to come. Success, my boy, will be yours! … longevity and strength be to its holy endeavours.”

What was there to do? The troubled Brother looked around his twelve; he had asked them to come in from their toils with the plough, to see now the wealth laid before them.

“This is a turn for the worse I fear”, mumbled Joseph, who had been recently been begging in the town market square.

“The change is upon us - for if we have such holdings as these we can no longer collect as we done in the past.”

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances