Chapter Three
The White Popess

The enigmatic lady known simply as Lady of the Lake silently read and watched the soterika.biz discussion forum with solemn interest. She was grateful to her friend Miss Olivia for acting as a decoy, through the auspices of Mr. Lone Star, in drawing Ms. Madeline out from the underbrush into the open light. Yet, unbeknownst to our Cybersybil, LOL was also the leader of an elite cadre whose membership was watching the chat room performance, as well.

While the great writer, Alexandre Dumas, may have revealed in his works that the Vicar General of the Jesuits was secretly know as the Black Pope, that French author never exposed a more heretical breed of command - the shadow general whispered to be the spiritual force behind an exclusive society of adepts known as the Order of the Croissant, the latter word being code for crescent or horned moon.

Throughout history, this organization (beginning with Thomas of New Testament fame and tracing its way into Europe via Asia) knew as its sole raison d'etre the protection and preservation of the tenets laid down upon two tablets many centuries before a certain Lady of the Lake herself assumed the allegorical mitre of what the OTC's membership called their chief (whether male or female): the White Popess.

Now how LOL was chosen and elected for such a singular honor is another story in and of itself; suffice it to say that the judgment was made one fine day in a place known as Rennes-le-Gâteau, another fact totally unknown to either Miss O or her champion, Mr. Lone Star.







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