Eye of the Executive: An Urban Fantasy Series (Doing God's Work Book 2) by Dion Sky

Author:Dion Sky [Sky, Dion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-01-16T13:00:00+00:00

11 All in the Execution

“When polled on possible catalysts of a modern divine apocalypse, respondents cited a number of hot-topic theories from human-instigated climate change to fundamental human corruption, to the rise of feminism pressuring men into emasculating skinny jeans.”

- François Okusanya, Recoy Media Foreign Correspondent

A lot could happen in a few hours. The world had a messiah now, for one thing. One who was presumably very confused. Not exactly what I’d planned, insofar as I’d had any sort of plan, but I wouldn’t turn down the credit.

It had leaked a few hours earlier. Unlike the angel footage, this one wasn’t making the same kind of headlines. Naturally all the reputable news outlets and scientific community pooh-poohed the notion, at least according to the sources on Mayari’s phone. If they were publishing about it at all, it was to dismiss the more outlandish claims from less respected voices in the industry. One went so far as to accuse the church of enabling a con outright.

That was all going to change before long, I suspected.

I was finding it difficult to predict how the tyrant would react to this latest turn of events. On the one hand, it had only slipped through the cracks because of the eight-hour roadblock in Apollo’s foresight. The appearance of a church-sanctioned messiah now, right after the bloodiest targeted strike to come out of Europe in decades, threatened to throw out the carefully-maintained stability in Providence’s divine hierarchy. It threw massive influence the tyrant’s way. The attack by itself would generate sympathy, and fear. Adding the promise of a divine saviour would only compound the latter.

After all, you weren’t supposed to have a saviour without having something to be saved from. Even the tyrant’s own followers had been Stockholm-syndromed into thinking it was their fault if their great leader summoned a rain of fire. I wouldn’t put it past Yahweh, having conquered the heavens, to decide it was finally time to encroach further into the mortal population with such an opportunity. The circle of accountability holding his executive together was starting to fray; the competition holding him back weakening. If he went public – truly went public – how long would it be before his religion was declared the new science?

On the other hand, the tyrant really didn’t like being held accountable. As long as he could keep up the insulating veil of mysticism, he could keep telling himself he was the all-powerful, all-knowing authority his followers wanted him to be. If past history was any indication, the pope’s life expectancy might be only as long as the number of cameras he could manage to stay in front of.

Shitface scowled at me before I had a chance to open my mouth. “I’ll get us through this in the short term,” he said. “He won’t break form. But my reputation’s going to take a hit for this. Don’t count on me to be able to bail you out of every future scrap.”

“And Grace?” I asked.

Apollo turned to the pope.

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