chronicles of Night Trials of fire and water

chronicle 12:A moment of bliss

the year 1950 padua nearly a day after leaving the vatican..

The drive was predominantly quiet after, we stopped at a few places to eat, Piccolo Paradiso being one where I chose seafood, Autogrill Flaminia Est, a fast food joint nearing the middle, I got a couple of burgers and fries. Other than that, all I remember was passing in, listening to the engine moaning,the radio played some bands I don't recognize but every once in a while, it would play a song like  "The Scorpions", "Blutengel", at one point I clearly remember it playing Nene's "99 red balloons" in german, as well as "schrei" by Tokio hotel and others, and the slight rhythm of the moving vehicle, passing in and out eating at what places I found, it was a slow blur, but what stirred the most emotion was what came next.

I woke up from another snooze, the images of the Creature in my mind, I'm restless and need to move Judas felt it too.

"Let's stop up ahead, we're on track to hit the last part of the freeway into Padua. We'll stop, eat there, and get some life in our legs." He smiles and I stretch and yawn, and rub my eyes, I feel like I slept like the dead, and I look at my phone that I got as a way to communicate with Judas and anyone at school and my eyes lit up, my cell has a message from her.

"Oh wow, she answered," I said slightly excitedly, and Judas scoffed, as we pulled into the city, it was fairly suburban, trees everywhere, the sun was bright, and there was a pretty decent breeze out. I took a breath and pressed the button to listen to the message.

"Hey you called me wasn't expecting you to read my card I left you I don't know what happened after we met in the Sistine Chapel, I saw you smile and I was outside watching you be taken away on a stretcher Did something fall on you or attack you you looked roughed up man, I'm glad you thought of me when you left, perhaps we'll meet up when you get back into town, take pictures of venice for me, never been anyway better letcha go before this gets too long toodles caleb muuwah "XOxO I smile and honestly I feel in a good mood, the slow purring of Judas ride slowly woke me up and I found us in a suburban city, with not so suburban places, for example, we stop short of the Piazza Garibaldi, which was the massive open area it had musicians, dancers, more food, there was even a festival going on, I try to figure out what it is, but upon reading it they're talking about a carnival, confusion colors me, as I walk by through the festival, and I'm amazed at what I'm seeing. "It's like Samhain in the daytime"

And sure enough, there was a reason for me to say so, where normal people would be in this bright area, right there were masks, plenty of people dressed up, masks, outfits, and headgear, like a version of mardi gras, only much bigger, and once again and I'm confused there was no carnival there, just a festival in an open area, cool with strange customs, I'm clearly not local and I pass over to a few vendors, and look at their menus, you'd think I was happy with my regular fast food, but you know when in Rome, well if we were in Rome

Walk up to the sushi place "Ristorante sushi La Nuova Cova" I shrug and go inside, and I notice the places shut down, the question is why? I walk up to the lady behind the counter and the man and I question them, "It's only February, the good time for tourism, why shut down your goods, I was gonna get hungry. The young woman and the older man looked at me as if I had grown a second head, and I looked at them as if I was clueless. Finally, he saw my badge as a beginning priest, well exorcist but in the eyes of the public if you're an exorcist you're a priest.

"Oh father, I understand you're from Rome, far from home you wouldn't know, but maybe it's the season of Carnevale" I'm still clueless, but I try to talk myself out of this awkward situation by admiring the festival. "There's a ton of people in costumes and masks like Samhain, this is Carnival?" She and his nod and laugh. "It's the time when we don't eat meat, Father, you would know, remember lent?" I'm even more clueless but I know I'm about to lose my credit, so I just agree. "Ahh wait no meat so all of your meat is...." I then take a closer look at the menu and I notice a lot of the beef, steak, and pork are removed and I'm bummed. "Oh, and I was hungry,"