The Five-Self Kozak: A Tale of Faith in the Future by Conan V. Petrere

Author:Conan V. Petrere [Petrere, Conan V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-19T22:00:00+00:00

Five

While he had been viewing the news captions and thinking, Mitry had noticed, through peripheral vision at the edge of his nao-vong display, that Ivan Agopovich had left his chair. Probably gone to the cleansing area. Sure enough, a few fen later, the older Undersergeant returned, clad like Mitry in the soft, white, disposable night-suit. Noticing Ivan returning, Mitry collapsed his nao-vong display upward.

“Ivan Agopovich,” Mitry called, as though he had something more to say. The tall Kozak smiled cordially, and turned the chair around, sitting in it facing Mitry.

“What is it, Brod?” he inquired.

“Before you left, what were you sitting there doing?” Mitry asked. “Looked pretty serious. I mean, you should be relaxing, but you didn’t seem very relaxed...”

“Oh, da,” Ivan Agopovich grinned, tapping his temple, next to his right eye. “Reading! On the nao-vong, you know?”

“Ah, but why sit so straight, instead of relaxing,” Mitry spread his hands, “like me?”

“Reading the Book, Brod,” Ivan replied. “Reading it is listening to Bogh, so I was trying to sit respectfully. If you read the Holy Book, you don’t have to do it that way, but it’s what I do, for Him.”

“For Bogh?”

“Da, tovarish, for Bogh.”

“Ah... So what about tomorrow? How does it work?”

“Well,” began Ivan, his eyes sparkling at the question, “we’ve got to be in the Hui-tang Assembly Hall before zero-eight-thirty tomorrow morning, and the assemblies will last about two chyas. I’m sure you’re find it interesting. It concludes about ten thirty chyas, so that we can all get down to the Shabbat evening meal by eleven-hundred-chyas. Besides Kiddush and Hamotzi over the juice and challah bread as usual, we’ll have cholent dwun. It’s delicious, of course, like everything here... and it’s been cooking since before sundown this evening! They try to avoid lighting any fires or even striking any sparks, just to respect Bogh on Shabbat. Then there is fellowship and rest until the evening when they hold ‘Shalosh Seudos’ to end Shabbat. After that, the restaurant opens again!”

“Interesting, for now,” Mitry replied honestly, “but it sounds complicated, and must get tiring!”

“It does sound tiring,” Ivan said, now sober, “but it is not so tiring when it is done from the heart, and these Yo-tai folk do this from the heart. It’s not grudgingly or of necessity, because they – we – are no longer under the law, but under grace, and Bogh loves a cheerful participant.”

Mitry frowned thoughtfully.

“What do you mean, not under the law? I would take these folk to be fairly law-abiding... except for some of them resisting the Bio-ID nami-tech administration...”

“Nyet, nyet, Brod,” Ivan Agopovich waved his hand negatively. “I’m not talking about national law, I’m talking about the law of Bogh. It used to be, almost three thousand orbits ago, before Yesus Christos arrived – they call him Messiah Yeshua – that they all had to follow the rules in the first part of the Book. The Book of the Old Covenant. Now, we don’t have to follow those rules. However, some observe

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