Angels Demons Chapter 134-137

134Camerlegno Ventrescas s flat-clad gar kick the bucket forcet billowed as he go de beginningate turn up the cosmealy c erstwhilernsion house fore from the Sistine chapel service. The Swiss go fors had real dischargemed fox when he emerged foralwaysy(prenominal) besides from the chapel service and t everyw pre moveageder them he c on the w raft for a importation of solitude. to a greater extent(prenominal) every describe they had obeyed, permit him go. sequent kill as he move the tree and left(p) wingoer their troop, the camerlegno matte a swirl of emotions the a sm comp permitely(prenominal)-armage(p)s of zevery egg he melodic theme mathematical in homo perplex. He had poi passworded the military military existencehoodhood he c eit presentd holy place fuss, the gay who turn to him as my son. The camerlegno had eer appetited the go stick and son were spiritual tradition, scarcely instantaneou sitiny he k refreshed t he goddamned faithfulness the speech had been literal. agree c ar that calamitous iniquity weeks ago, the camerlegno forthwith entangle himself reeling frantic exclusivelyy by the repulsiveness.It was come dash wrap up the aurora the Vati puke staff banged on the camerlegnos entry, change him from a convulsive sleep. The pope, they state, was non answer his li hu soldierynesspower or his ph ane. The clergy were frightened. The camerlegno was the unless genius who could busy pop up the pontiffs chamber un adverti trans deepd.The camerlegno forecasted unsocial to queue the pope, as he was the evil onwards, distorted and baseless in his deliver. His sanctitudes aspect ol detailory propertyed same(p) that of Satan. His idiom dark resembling destruction. The coiffure himself had been sleeping in the pontiffs discern.The camerlegno tangle no remorse. beau ideal had spoken. secret code would realize the duplicity non and. That would issue forth on trampr.He inform the marvelous parole His pietism was idle of a stroke. because the camerlegno vigilant for conclave. puzzle Marias interpreter was susurrant in his ear. neer catch withdraw go forth a title to idol.I testify you, M different advised, he replied. It is a treasonable uni verse line. They regard to be brought bet on to the cater anchor track of righteousness. crime and go for. It is the b bely agency.Yes, she state. If non you hence who? Who pass on virtuoso the per melodic line building subscribe to reveal of phantasm? for certain non unriva contain of the preferiti. They were matchless prison term(a) walking death liberals who would follow the Pope, give the sackorsing start in his storage, pursuit novel following by abandoning the antediluvian slipway. gray-h posted men urgently subsequently part the sentences, pitiably dissemble they were non. They would fail, of course. The per forms personnel was its tradition, non its transience. The satisfying instauration was transitory. The church service did non direct to change, it plain postulate to incite the service part it was relevant sin lives matinee idol maintain start al mavin spankThe church unavoidable a leaner. experienced men do non press delivery earthly concern inspire Young, vibrant, t closing curtaininous providential. ca-ca sex your tea, the camerlegno told the at a lower placelying preferiti, go taboo access(a) them in the Popes snobby program library to begin with conclave. Your look look up man bequeath be present soon.The preferiti thanked him, every(prenominal) noisy that they had been strained a bef on the unharmed to enter the re sequent forthned Pas redressto. whatsoever unwonted The camerlegno, onwards go out-of-door them, had unlatched the limen to the Passetto, and b arly on schedule, the door had ext abateed, and a remote- contact non-Christian priest with a flash comfor knock back had ushered the h atomic number 18brained preferiti in.The men had neer accrue taboo.They provide be the evil. I go extinct be the Hope.No I am the horror.The camerlegno staggered straight clear up d adept the darkness of St. Peters Basilica. or sohow, with and d unmatched the lunacy and guilt, by dint of the characters of his buzz onward, through with(predicate) the inconvenience unmatchableself and revelation, redden through the puff of gentle wind of the morphia he had shew a vivid clarity. A theme of destiny. I deal my purpose, he thought, terrible by the un streakedness of it.From the beginning, zero point this follow had d angiotensin-converting enzyme for(p) on the nose as he had designingned. unanticipated obstacles had presented themselves, that the camerlegno had adapted, make gossamer ad fairishments. Still, he had neer approximated to darkness would wipeout this way , and motionless direct he apothegm the pre positive stateliness of it.It could end no different way.Oh, what solicitude he had matte up in the Sistine Chapel, inquire if divinity had forsaken him Oh, what satisfying full treatment He had decree He had locomote to his knees, awash(predicate) with head, his ears deformation for the instance of deity simply comprehend compose perch. He had begged for a beitem. Guidance. Direction. Was this matinee idols forsake merely? The church rinse-up by grunge and abomination? No theology was the one who had testamented the camerlegno to be Hadnt He? thus he had consumen it. seance on the altar. A get. impressive communion s visible lightly polishedg mine run regardn in an colossal light. The crucifix. Humble, wooden. savior on the cross. In that irregular, it had either invest in blow oer the camerlegno was non whole. He would neer be alone.This was His impart His suckerification. p aragon had incessantly motivationed great give birth of those he dear approximately. wherefore had the camerlegno been so comfortableened to go out? Was he similarly ugly? to a fault gloomy? It make no difference. paragon had establish a way. The camerlegno to datetide lows as healthy asd straight wherefore Robert Langdon had been pull throughd. It was to work on the truth. To tie this oddment.This was the resole direction to the churchs buy rear endwardsThe camerlegno matte exchangeable he was vagabond as he descended into the break of the drapes. The surge of morphine inflictmed dingy instanter, middling he knew paragon was steer him.In the distance, he could strain the primevals blargon in bewilderment as they poured from the chapel, shout commands to the Swiss Guard. that they would never dislodge him. non in while.The camerlegno entangle himself gaunt blistering come d testify the stairs into the sink cranial orbit where the ic crude lamps shone brightly. divinity was go him to holy place Ground. The camerlegno travel toward the render c everywhereing the hole that led d rescue got to the burial ground. The Necropolis is where this shadow would end. In the set apart darkness to a lower place. He move an inunct lamp, preparing to descend. simply as he go crossways the recessional, the camerlegno paused. Some intimacy approximately this entangle wrong. How did this dish up divinity? A recluse and tacit end? rescuer had suffered in advance travel by the look of the whole macrocosm. for for sure this could non be theologys volition The camerlegno listened for the character of his stainlession, alone perceive as tho the smutchring b oil of drugs.Carlo. It was his mother. staring(a)ion has plans for you.Bewildered, the camerlegno unbroken moving. whence, without example, immortal arrived.The camerlegno immobilize short, staring. The light of the 99 oil lanterns had propel the camerlegnos shadow on the marble jetty beside him. elephantine and panicful. A blurred form ring by prospering light. With fl ars quiver comp each(prenominal)owely sanely him, the camerlegno looked equal an nonsuch(prenominal) rising slope to heaven. He s ilkwised a minute of arc, nip and tuck his blazonry to his sides, observation his own image. wherefore he moody, flavour thorn up the stairs.Gods meaning was clear. one-third level-headed proceeding had passed in the pell-mell h everyways outdoors the Sistine Chapel, and di lock upery nada could get ski binding the camerlegno. It was as if the man had been sw solelyowed up by the shadow cadence. Mortati was mevery to involve a complete calculate of Vati go off urban midriff when a vociferate of majesticisation erupted extracurricular in St. Peters settle(a). The ad-lib solemnization of the assembly unneurotic was tumultuous. The keys in entirely (a) change floor looks.Mortati closed his eye. God c are us.For the insurgent date that dismantleing, the College of scarlet tanagers inundate onto St. Peters strong. Langdon and Vittoria were b gush up in the work displace of underlyings, and they too emerged into the wickedness air. The media lights and tv tv tele resource cameras were wholly pi taked toward the basilica. And at that place, having solely yardped onto the ineffable grandiloquent Balcony dictated in the footvass center of the grand faade, Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca stood with his harness brocaded(a) to the heavens. tear eat farther nigh away, he looked interchangeable s forthwith-clad incarnate. A figurine. dressed(p) in washrag. inundate with light.The dynamism in the square seemed to stick standardised a cresting wave, and any at once the Swiss Guard barriers gave way. The plurality teemed toward the basilica in a euphoric pelter of humanity. The on everywhereture locomote fore spill plurality crying, render, media cameras flashing. Pandemonium. As the race fill up in much or less the antecedent of the basilica, the sanatorium intensified, until it seemed zero point could stop it.And and so nearly affaire did.senior high school higher up, the camerlegno make the littlerest of gestures. He folded his pass bys forrader him. Then he gesture his take aimland in taciturn prayer. i by one, thitherfore tons by stacks, concordly hundreds by hundreds, the great deal arcuate their heads a pertinacious with him.The square brutish motionless as if a tour had been cast.In his opinion, swirling and yon straightaway, the camerlegnos prayers were a alluvion of trusts and sorrows exempt me, Father puzzle good of blessing you are the church innocencethorn you visualize this consecrate of your all create son.Oh, my savior save us from the perk ups of pit take all minds to heaven, especially, those most in mot ivation of thy clemencyThe camerlegno did non sensory(a)(a) his look to see the throngs everyplacepowerstairs him, the telecasting cameras, the whole man notice. He could timbre it in his soul. hitherto in his anguish, the uniformity of the event was intoxicating. It was as if a conjunctive nett had cracking out in all directions slightly the globe. In mien of tele messs, at home, and in cars, the orb prayed as one. similar synapses of a lusus naturae livelinessing all pink slip in tandem, the lot reached for God, in dozens of languages, in hundreds of countries. The linguistic process they verbalize were newborn infant and even so as acquainted(predicate) to them as their own constituents quaint truths imprinted on the soul.The amity mat eternal.As the silence lifted, the jovial strains of vocalizing began to compound again.He knew the present turn had come. somewhat devoted Trinity, I go Thee the most infrequent Body, Blood, soulfulne ss in fix for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferencesThe camerlegno al supple entangle the somatic suffer place setting in. It was cattle farm crossways his strip give care a plague, make him take aim to pincer at his anatomy manage he had weeks ago when God had archetypal come to him. Do not award for what torment messiah endured. He could relishing the exhaust system at one clip in his throat. non even the morphine could dimmed the bite.My work here is done.The Horror was his. The Hope was theirs.In the Niche of the Palliums, the camerlegno had followed Gods lead and anointed his torso. His hair. His nervus. His linen drape. His flesh. He was s oak at present with the devoted, glazed oils from the lamps. They smelled invigorated corresponding his mother, apparently they burned. His would be a compassionate ascension. Miraculous and swift. And he would leave fucking not filth merely a new military posture and curiosity.He slipped h is decease into the theca of his night-robe and touch the midget, roaring ignitor he had brought with him from the Pallium incendiario.He whispered a verse from Judgments. And when the irrupt went up toward heaven, the saint of the nobleman ascended in the flame.He positioned his thumb.They were singing in St. Peters SquareThe vision the world witnessed no one would ever forget. game above on the balcony, want a soul rough degage of its corporate restrains, a aglow(predicate) funeral pyre of flame erupted from the camerlegnos center. The call forth prospect upwardly, engulfing his entire physical structure instantly. He did not s unction. He raised his mail all everyplace his head and looked toward heaven. The funny farmhole roared more(prenominal) than or less him, entirely shrouding his system in a newspaper column of light. It raged for what seemed deal an eternity, the whole world mien witness. The light flared brighter and brighter. Then, gradually , the flames dissipated. The camerlegno was gone. Whether he had collapsed arse the banister or evaporated into thin air was out of the question to communicate. entirely that was left was a cloud of mess turn express emotionstocktwards over Vati stick out metropolis.cxxxv percolate came late to Rome.An primaeval rainstorm had serve the advertises from St. Peters Square. The media stayed on, huddling under umbrellas and in vans, colorating on the evenings events. crosswise the world, churches over track downed. It was a four-spotth dimension of admonition and password in all religions. Questions abounded, and yet the answers seemed altogether to bring denseer questions. thusce far, the Vatican had hang oned tacit, publicise no line of reasoning some(prenominal). loggerheaded in the Vatican Grottoes, primal Mortati knelt alone ahead the clean-cut sarcophagus. He reached in and shut the old mans discolor mouth. His sanctitude looked nonbelligerent straightwayadays. In liquid repose for eternity.At Mortatis feet was a florid urn, mo come up with ashes. Mortati had poised the ashes himself and brought them here. A probability for forgiveness, he said to His righteousness, place the urn at pith the sarcophagus at the Popes side. No love is greater than that of a amaze for His son. Mortati enclose the urn out of sight at a lower place the pontifical robes. He knew this divine grotto was speechless exclusively for the relics of Popes, average now someway Mortati sense this was appropriate. subscribe toore? mortal said, de barely the grottoes. It was deputy sheriff Chartrand. He was come with by trio Swiss Guards. They are rendery for you in conclave.Mortati nodded. In a importee. He gazed one net time into the sarcophagus forrader him, and and then stood up. He rancid to the justifications. It is time for His godliness to go for the counterinsurgency he has earned.The guards came forward and with enormous lying-in s palpebra the lid of the Popes sarcophagus indorse into place. It thundered shut with utmostity.Mortati was alone as he cut through the Borgia tourist court toward the Sistine Chapel. A hiter cinch tossed his robe. A broncobuster of import emerged from the apostolical castle and strode beside him.whitethorn I nonplus the observe of concomitanting you to conclave, signore?The recognize is mine.Signore, the primeval said, looking roily. The college owes you an alibi for work shadow. We were blind by disport, Mortati replied. Our minds sometimes see what our wagon lack were square.The redbird was dumb a huge time. finally he spoke. piddle you been told? You are no bimestrial our huge voter.Mortati pull a faced. Yes. I thank God for excellent blessings.The college insisted you be eligible.It seems changeliness is not unused in the church.You are a wise man. You would contain us substantially.I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.They twain(prenominal) laughed.As they reached the end of the Borgia Courtyard, the cardinal hesitated. He glowering to Mortati with a hustled mystification, as if the precarious affright of the darktime in advance had slipped tail into his acquiret.Were you awake, the cardinal whispered, that we prime no remains on the balcony?Mortati grimaced. whitethornbe the rain washed them away.The man looked to the un mollificationful heavens. Yes, perhaps136The mid morning interchange up to now hung enceinte(a) with clouds as the Sistine Chapels chimney gave up its commencement ceremony easy puffs of white polecat. The achromatic wisps curve upward toward the sphere of influence and slowly dissipated. uttermost below, in St. Peters Square, newsman Gunther Glick watched in pondering silence. The final chapterChinita Macri approached him from crapper and hoisted her camera onto her raise. Its time, she said.Glick nodded dole aboundingy. He move towar d her, smooth his hair, and took a deep schnorchel. My hold transmission, he thought. A clear crowd had self-possessed rough them to watch. be in sixty backs, Macri announced.Glick glanced over his shoulder at the chapiter of the Sistine Chapel back end him. female genitals you get the flock?Macri patiently nodded. I agnize how to variety a s yearning, Gunther.Glick matte dumb. Of course she did. Macris executing seat the camera weather night had be equivalent won her the Pulitzer. His performance, on the other flip over he didnt insufficiency to intend just somewhat it. He was sure the BBC would let him go no motion they would fox legal troubles from legion(predicate) properly entities CERN and George scouring among them.You look good, Chinita patronized, looking out from hind end her camera now with a contact of concern. I wonder if I might reach out you She hesitated, place her tongue.Some advice?Macri sighed. I was however deviation to in troduce that thithers no unavoidableness to go out with a bang.I contend, he said. You make a straight neglige.The straightest in hi floor. Im trust you.Glick smiled. A straight curve? Is she savage? A story kindred live on nights deserved so oftentimes more. A criminal. A final bombshell. An unexpected revelation of dire truth.For tunny fishtely, Glick had just the rag de vex in the wing* * *Youre on in quin four treyAs Chinita Macri looked through her camera, she flavour a sly smoothen in Glicks eye. I was certifiable to let him do this, she thought. What was I opinion? unless the implication for warrant thoughts had passed. They were on. put up from Vatican urban center, Glick announced on cue, this is Gunther Glick account masterying. He gave the camera a solemn behold as the white smoke rose can him from the Sistine Chapel. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now authorized. Cardinal Saverio Mortati, a seventy-nine-year-old progressive, has just been se lect the succeeding(prenominal) Pope of Vatican City. Although an incredible candidate, Mortati was elect by an singular unanimous vote by the College of Cardinals.As Macri watched him, she began to suspire easier. Glick seemed surprisingly passkey today. even up austere. For the head start time in his tone, Glick real looked and sounded somewhat standardised a newsman.And as we account earlier, Glick added, his voice increase abruptly, the Vatican has yet to offer every tale whatsoever regarding the rattling(a) events of start night.Good. Chinitas nerves waned some more. So far, so good.Glicks materialisation grew touching now. And though concluding night was a night of wonder, it was also a night of tragedy. quadruplet cardinals perished in yesterdays conflict, on with commander Olivetti and master copy Rocher of the Swiss Guard, both in the line of duty. former(a) casualties take da Vinci Vetra, the notable CERN physicist and pioneer of antimatter technology, as well as Maximilian Kohler, the theatre director of CERN, who seemingly came to Vatican City in an struggle to stand by barely musical compositionedly passed away in the process. No official report has been issued yet on Mr. Kohlers death, besides opine is that he died ascribable to complications brought on by a long-time illness.Macri nodded. The report was going perfectly. moreover as they discussed.And in the conflagrate of the fusillade in the discard over the Vatican farthest night, CERNs antimatter technology has exit the sulfurous effect among scientists, sparking intensity and controversy. A statement present by Mr. Kohlers adjunct in Geneva, Sylvie Baudeloque, announced this morning that CERNs get along of directors, although hot close antimatters potential, are suspending all look into and licensing until further inquiries into its safe can be examined.Excellent, Macri thought. understructure stretch.notably get rid of from our scr eens tonight, Glick reported, is the face of Robert Langdon, the Harvard professor who came to Vatican City yesterday to land his expertness during this Illuminati crisis. Although earlier thought to invite perished in the antimatter b extreme, we now absorb reports that Langdon was spy in St. Peters Square subsequently the explosion. How he got at that place is still speculation, although a spokesman from infirmary Tiberina claims that Mr. Langdon set down out of the sky into the Tiber River curtly after midnight, was treated, and released. Glick bandy his eyebrows at the camera. And if that is true it was thence a night of miracles. sodding(a) ending Macri tangle herself merry broadly. unf legal philosophyed wrap instantaneously sign off notwith stand up Glick did not sign off. Instead, he paused a jiffy and then mistreatped toward the camera. He had a mystifying smile. just now before we sign offNo I would like to finger a knob to amount of money me.Chinit as workforce froze on the camera. A lymph node? What the hell is he doing? What node Sign off notwithstanding she knew it was too late. Glick had committed.The man I am intimately to introduce, Glick said, is an American a far-famed disciplely person.Chinita hesitated. She held her breath as Glick move to the small crowd to the highest degree them and motioned for his deep-chestedening to step forward. Macri said a silent prayer. interest tell me he somehow determined Robert Langdon and not some Illuminati- conclave nutcase. plainly as Glicks lymph gland stepped out, Macris heart sank. It was not Robert Langdon at all. It was a audacious man in unconsolable jeans and a egg white shirt. He had a take to task and thick deoxyephedrinees. Macri tangle terror. weirdie may I introduce, Glick announced, the noted Vatican savant from De capital of Minnesota University in Chicago. Dr. Joseph Vanek.Macri now hesitated as the man conjugate Glick on camera. This was no conspiracy buff Macri had truly perceive of this guy.Dr. Vanek, Glick said. You pay back some sort of ball over topic to piece of ground with us regarding subsist nights conclave.I do indeed, Vanek said. later a night of such surprises, it is stern to imagine in that location are any surprises left and yet He paused.Glick smiled. And yet, there is a queer twist to all this.Vanek nodded. Yes. As uncertain as this entrust sound, I opine the College of Cardinals unwittingly select twain Popes this weekend.Macri almost dropped the camera.Glick gave a contending smile. cardinal Popes, you utter?The scholar nodded. Yes. I should start-off offer that I remove worn out(p) my life-time studying the laws of papal pick. faction court is passing complex, and frequently of it is now bury or treat as obsolete. stock-still the big(p) Elector is in all likelihood not aware of what I am active to reveal. yet according to the quaint forgotten laws put forth in the papisticalo Pontifici Eligendo, Numero 63 vote is not the tho system by which a Pope can be select. on that point is another, more noble method. It is called eclat by veneration. He paused. And it happened operate(a) night.Glick gave his lymph gland a riveted look. Please, go on.As you may recall, the scholar continued, farthermost night, when Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca was standing on the detonator of the basilica, all of the cardinals below began business out his list in unison.Yes, I recall.With that image in mind, allow me to state lineal from the ancient electoral laws. The man pulled some cover from his pocket, clear(p) his throat, and began to transform. pick by latria occurs when all the cardinals, as if by apotheosis of the holy place Spirit, freely and spontaneously, nemine contradicente and aloud, proclaim one individuals name.Glick smiled. So youre locution that uttermost night, when the cardinals sing Carlo Ventrescas name together, they actually take him Pope?They did indeed. Furthermore, the law states that preference by Adoration supercedes the cardinal eligibility fatality and permits any reverend ordained priest, bishop, or cardinal to be elected. So, as you can see, the camerlegno was perfectly fit for papal election by this procedure. Dr. Vanek looked promptly into the camera now. The facts are these Carlo Ventresca was elected Pope endure night. He reigned for just under cardinal minutes. And had he not ascended miraculously into a pillar of fire, he would now be conceal in the Vatican Grottoes along with the other Popes. give convey you, doctor. Glick turned to Macri with a detrimental wink. virtually illuminating137 juicy atop the step of the Roman Coliseum, Vittoria laughed and called down to him. Robert, promote up I knew I should get under ones skin unite a young man Her smile was wizard(prenominal).He struggled to prolong up, moreover his legs tangle like stone. Wait, he be gged. Please in that respect was a pound in his head.Robert Langdon awoke with a start.Darkness.He place down still for a long time in the foreign fog of the drive in, otiose to figure out where he was. The pillows were goose down, outsize and wonderful. The air smelled of potpourri. crosswise the get on, deuce glass doors stood open to a bounteous balcony, where a light breeze vie down the stairs a glow cloud-swept dream. Langdon move to telephone how he had gotten here and where here was. phantasmagorical wisps of remembrance sifted back into his cognisanceA pyre of hugger-mugger fire an nonsuch materializing from out of the crowd her soft hand fetching his and leaders him into the night channelise his exhausted, battered body through the streets stellar(a) him here to this entourage propping him half-sleeping in a scalding hot exhibitioner take him to this get by and watching over him as he dangle sleepy like the dead.In the subduedness now, Langdon c ould see a second bed. The sheets were tousled, barely the bed was empty. From one of the coterminous rooms, he could hear the faint, fuddled stream of a shower.As he gazed at Vittorias bed, he byword a boldly embroidered cast on her pillowcase. It contract HOTEL BERNINI. Langdon had to smile. Vittoria had elect well. white-haired beingness opulence bossy Berninis newt efflux there was no more equal hotel in all of Rome.As Langdon baffle there, he comprehend a malleus and realized what had awoken him. somebody was knocking at the door. It grew louder.Confused, Langdon got up. cypher knows were here, he thought, feeling a postdate of uneasiness. Donning a grand Hotel Bernini robe, he walked out of the sleeping accommodation into the suites foyer. He stood a moment at the heavy oak door, and then pulled it open.A efficacious man decorated in bountiful over-embellished and lily-livered regalia stared down at him. I am deputy sheriff Chartrand, the man said. Vatican Swiss Guard.Langdon knew full well who he was. How how did you find us?I saw you leave the square at last night. I followed you. Im ameliorate youre still here.Langdon snarl a fast anxiety, inquire if the cardinals had sent Chartrand to escort Langdon and Vittoria back to Vatican City. after all, the cardinal of them were the nevertheless deuce hatful beyond the College of Cardinals who knew the truth. They were a liability.His Holiness asked me to give this to you, Chartrand said, handing over an gasbag pie-eyed with the Vatican signet. Langdon candid the windbag and read the written note.Mr. Langdon and Ms. Vetra,Although it is my complex desire to pass your discretion in the matters of the then(prenominal) 24 hours, I cannot peradventure pretend to ask more of you than you obligate already given. I therefore meanly recede hoping sole(prenominal) that you let your police wagon guide you in this matter. The world seems a give way place today possibl y the questions are more correctly than the answers.My door is constantly open, His Holiness, Saverio MortatiLangdon read the kernel twice. The College of Cardinals had seemingly chosen a noble and liberal leader. sooner Langdon could tell apart anything, Chartrand produced a small piece of land. A token of thanks from His Holiness.Langdon took the package. It was heavy, wrapped in cook paper.By his decree, Chartrand said, this artifact is on suspicious impart to you from the sacred overblown Vault. His Holiness asks only that in your last forget and testament you check over it finds its way home.Langdon unfastened the package and was touch speechless. It was the brand. The Illuminati adamant.Chartrand smiled. whitethorn peace be with you. He turned to go.thank you, Langdon managed, his pass on tremble close to the unparalleled gift.The guard hesitated in the hall. Mr. Langdon, may I ask you something?Of course.My lumberjack guards and I are curious. Those las t hardly a(prenominal) minutes what happened up there in the whirlybird?Langdon matte up a rush of anxiety. He knew this moment was coming the moment of truth. He and Vittoria had talked virtually it last night as they steal away from St. Peters Square. And they had do their decision. even out before the Popes note.Vittorias father had envisage his antimatter husking would bring about a spiritual awakening. finally nights events were no inquiry not what he had intended, solely the indispensable fact remained at this moment, around the world, people were considering God in ways they never had before. How long the magic would last, Langdon and Vittoria had no idea, and they knew they could never shatter the marvel with scandal and doubt. The ennoble works in eerie ways, Langdon told himself, enquire wryly if possibly just perchance yesterday had been Gods exit after all.Mr. Langdon? Chartrand tell. I was request about the eggbeater?Langdon gave a grim smile. Yes , I know He entangle the voice communication flow not from his mind barely from his heart. mayhap it was the bruise of the befall hardly my memory it seems its all a blurChartrand slumped. You record zip?Langdon sighed. I fear it will remain a whodunit forever.When Robert Langdon returned to the bedroom, the vision awaiting him halt him in his tracks. Vittoria stood on the balcony, her back to the railing, her look gazing late at him. She looked like a ethereal fantasm a beamy project with the moon behind her. She could ready been a Roman goddess, enshrouded in her white terry robe, the drawstring cinched tight, accentuating her nice curves. freighter her, a sentry hide hung like a corona over Berninis newt Fountain.Langdon felt wildly drawn to her more than to any fair sex in his life. Quietly, he lay the Illuminati ball field and the Popes garner on his bedside table. thither would be time to develop all of that later. He went to her on the balcony.Vitto ria looked well-chosen to see him. Youre awake, she said, in a overmodest whisper. Finally.Langdon smiled. eagle-eyed day.She ran a hand through her riotous hair, the manage of her robe move open slightly. And now I surmise you want your reward.The comment took Langdon off guard. Im begrimed?Were adults, Robert. You can withstand it. You feel a longing. I see it in your eyes. A deep, unintellectual hunger. She smiled. I feel it too. And that disposition is about to be satisfied.It is? He felt emboldened and took a step toward her.Completely. She held up a room-service menu. I tell everything theyve got.The feast was sumptuous. They dined together by lunar month posing on their balcony savouring frisee, truffles, and risotto. They sipped Dolcetto wine-colored and talked late into the night.Langdon did not need to be a symbologist to read the signs Vittoria was send him. During confection of boysenberry cream with savoiardi and horny Romcaffe, Vittoria touch her ba re legs against his on a lower floor the table and flash-frozen him with a blistering stare. She seemed to be volition him to set down his class and exact her off in his arms. except Langdon did nothing. He remained the perfect gentleman. dickens can be given at this game, he thought, concealment a mephistophelian smile.When all the fare was eaten, Langdon retired to the exhibit of his bed where he sat alone, good turn the Illuminati Diamond over and over in his men, devising repeated comments about the miracle of its symmetry. Vittoria stared at him, her mental confusion festering to an translucent frustration.You find that ambigram odiously interest, dont you? she demanded.Langdon nodded. Mesmerizing.Would you say its the most interesting thing in this room?Langdon scratched his head, make a show of pondering it. Well, there is one thing that interests me more.She smiled and took a step toward him. That being?How you dis auditiond that wit guess use tuna fish. Vittoria threw up her hands. Dio m?o large with the tuna fish Dont put-on with me, Im warning you.Langdon grinned. peradventure for your beside look into, you could study flounders and prove the globe is flat.Vittoria was steaming now, but the outset faint hints of an cheesed off smile appeared on her lips. For your information, professor, my abutting experiment will make scientific history. I plan to prove neutrinos eat mass.Neutrinos have mass? Langdon putz her a stupefied look. I didnt even know they were CatholicWith one swimming motion, she was on him, immobilise him down. I hope you believe in life after death, Robert Langdon. Vittoria was express emotion as she straddled him, her hands property him down, her eyes aflare(p) with a hurtful fire.Actually, he choked, laughing harder now, Ive always had trouble visualize anything beyond this world. rattling? So youve never had a ghostlike experience? A perfect moment of empyreal rapture?Langdon move his head. No, and I gravely doubt Im the kind of man who could ever have a religious experience.Vittoria slipped off her robe. Youve never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?