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Solace and Longshire IV
Apr. 30th, 2006 11:37"Sheep?" Longshire bristled. "What do you mean, sheep?"
"Precisely that. Sheep who need a goat to show them which direction to go to not fall off the cliff." Solace rubbed his hand across his scalp in a wholly unnecessary gesture that on other men would have brushed hair out of eyes. His voice sounded hollow in the empty chapel. "Why else do we refer to Him, " he gestured with his chin at the crucifix over the small altar, "as The Good Shepherd? Why else do you carry a crook at High Mass?"
( Courtesy snip... )
"Precisely that. Sheep who need a goat to show them which direction to go to not fall off the cliff." Solace rubbed his hand across his scalp in a wholly unnecessary gesture that on other men would have brushed hair out of eyes. His voice sounded hollow in the empty chapel. "Why else do we refer to Him, " he gestured with his chin at the crucifix over the small altar, "as The Good Shepherd? Why else do you carry a crook at High Mass?"
( Courtesy snip... )