Chapter 52
“You must! You’re leaving him without any defense.”
“Father,” Judas said, “what is this? Why won’t you help me?”
“No. What I know is kept between the gods and the lords. It is information that has never left this chamber, and it never will.”
“Do you want him killed?” Harz cried. “If you don’t tell him, I will!”
Judas turned to his father. “You have information that will help me, yet you won’t tell me? Why? If it will help me defeat him, Father, I must know what it is.”
“I said no!”
Judas looked at his father, pain gripping his chest. “Then say goodbye to me now, Father, because I will die if I have to face Lupercus without a defense.”
“You still have your powers, do you not?”
“Yes, I still—”
“That is sufficient.”
“As Satan lives, you don’t care! I could go out there and get myself killed, and it would mean nothing to you. Why, Father? I know love is—”