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  A loud snap from the fireplace indicated the end of some beetle or bug inhabiting the logs burning there and brought the Knight from his slumber with a start. He opened his eyes, drew a deep breath and looked around quickly, finding nothing amiss in the library. The sun had gone and the windows were dark. A chilling moan shook the old house, the window panes rattled in the casement and the distant sound of thunder heralded the approach of a gathering storm.

  He picked up the paper and began to write again.

  Dark Matter.

  Facts:

  1.) Dark Matter does not interact with mundane matter.

  2.) Dark Matter is odorless, tasteless, invisible and intangible.

  3.) Dark Matter fills the entire Universe, permeating every atom.

  4.) Dark Matter completely contains the entire Universe within it.

  5.) Dark Matter is affected by nothing in human experience.

  6.) Dark Matter affects everything in the Universe.

  7.) Dark Matter makes the Universe possible.

  There are seven known facts about Dark Matter. Seven is the Holy Number of God.

  Conclusion: Dark Matter is God. Simple.

  The Chevalier du Morte got up, tossed the notebook on the footstool, recapped the fountain pen and rubbed his hands together. He finished off the bottle of Glendronach, drinking from the bottle and walked across the room to the window left of the fireplace where he pulled aside the heavy drapes and gazed out toward the meadow unable to see anything under the thick cloud cover. A brilliant flash of purplish lightning lit the rolling landscape momentarily and he thought he saw the dark shape of a winged creature swooping low over the ground. He squinted into the window pane and waited. When the next flash came, he saw only rain-soaked grassland.

  Chuckling softly at his own imagination he turned from the window and then jumped as the matched pair of wolfhounds set to howling in the foyer outside the library doors. Crossing the room, he laid his left hand on the doorknob and then stopped.

  The golden Templar ring was missing from his left ring finger…

  Finis.

  Bonus Materials

  The Red Cross of Gold XXIII

  “Thoth, the Atlantean”

  Assassin Chronicles

  By

  Brendan Carroll

  Copyright 2011

 

  Chapter One of Twenty

  That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man