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recorded. I didn t want to get caught up in the crush that was sure to
come after she finished speaking.
Messilinda had perfected her technique since I saw her last. Her
white robe was sculpted onto her superb figure like a second skin,
revealing her sensuous body yet covering her at the same time. She
was a vision of suppressed sexuality that had most of the men in the
crowd drooling.
She kept her voice low and intimate, relying on the amplifiers to
bring her words to the people. The effect was electric; it was as if she
were speaking to you one-on-one. Lifting her hands to heaven, she
endorsed President Forbes program, giving God the credit for
inspiring him. Her tone grew serious as she reminded her audience of
the wonderful gifts of new life and health that came from the gates a
gift of divine love from the Supreme Being. As she spoke, she seemed
to be looking at each one of us in turn, drawing us closer to her.
Always remember, my friends, what a great gift you have received
and be thankful to your Creator. Messilinda lifted her hands again in
a kind of benediction, and the crowd cheered. She gestured for
silence, and I thought she was about to start praying. As she opened
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ugly weed above her left breast.
The impact of the high-velocity slug threw her off the stage and
straight into the invisible portal of the gate. She blinked out of
existence like a diver plunging into the water from a backward dive.
For a moment we all sat frozen in shock. Then the screams and
shouts started. The crowd surged forward in a pandemonium of noise
and confusion, trying to comprehend what had happened. She was
gone in the blink of an eye, and quite a few of the flock didn t realize at
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Oh, no! Rita gasped beside me. Messilinda s shooting and
disappearance into the gate was starting a stampede. People were
running towards the stage to see what had happened to her. From our
vantage point far back in the crowd, I could see that those further
back were pressing those in front of the crowd inexorably toward the
gate. Those who were almost there screamed, but their voices were
lost in the general uproar. As they were pushed into the gate, they
disappeared.
As those behind them begin to realize what was happening they
started fighting to avoid being shoved forward themselves. Screams
and yells drowned out any possibility of telling where the shot had
come from. The assassin was never caught.
We couldn t see what was going on behind the gate, but the tapes
later showed naked young men and women emerging from the other
side as fast as the panicked crowd pushed them through the front
entrance. In a stroke of luck for the newscasts, there were several
porters on the far side of the gate, waiting to record the expressions
of the faithful who intended to enter after Messilinda s prayer.
Later I saw the tape where Messilinda came out the other side as a
young male with a muscled nude body and a bewildered look on his
face. The porters closed around him at once, hiding him from sight.
All that the crowd saw was an occasional glimpse of the top of his
head. Amazingly, Messilinda had beaten the odds the first time by
making it through the gate at an advanced age, and now she d done it
again by becoming a Seconder.
Meanwhile, Rita and I were both in shock, staring at each other. Rita
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Finally, we were standing alone on the hillside, looking down on the
flashing lights of the police cars around the gate, glad we had stayed
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