Once again, they were on their way to the cathedral. The crew was down an extra one today. In addition to Momo, Rave had decided to take care of meeting Herman. This both allowed her to avoid her mother and for John to finally get the spine-thingy back in his possession.
They were pretty late today, by Lydia's standards, but still half an hour early. Romulus' original announcement had been 'Two times after the bell has rung after noon', which turned out to be a fancy way of saying 14 o'clock.
'I should try to make some time for Herman soon, I've been kind of cutting him short recently,' John thought. Part of that was because he was avoiding the person a skull-headed god had told him would die, the Gamer had to admit to himself. Until he knew how that was going to end up, he wanted to… not get more attached? Something like that. 'That's not exactly fair to a friend though.'
