Dr. Petrovich, 61, walked into Camilla's room to take a look at her for the first time. A nurse, in her late fifties, was gently laying a fresh sheet over Camilla's bed, covering her body with it up to the shoulders.
"How long has she been in this coma?" he asked the nurse.
"Oh, months," said the nurse.
"Wow. What caused it?" he asked.
"Severe trauma," she said. "Surely you remember that nasty news story a few months ago, don't you? Her in that...bizarre situation, with all the sexual activity, and all those people watching? It was too much for her, too much for any girl. And she's so pretty, too."
"Poor thing," he said. "Keep me notified if her condition changes." He left the room and the ward.
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Armand was in his hotel meditating, psychically communing with Dr. Singh and the spirits of Agape, Don, and Candice.
All this time she's been in this coma,
Candice observed,
knowing that those masked bastards are raping her son; and you won't let her go, so she can let go of her life, enter our world, and save him.
"She's afraid," Armand said. "She knows there's no guarantee she even can save Eros. Besides, he doesn't want to be saved: we all know that. None of you even wants him out of hell yet, anyway."
The chances of rescuing both of them from the hellish realms are getting better all the time, thanks to Eros,
Candice insisted.
He's slowly but surely converting the people's psychic energy of lust and fear into that of love and hope: we all know that, too. She should know that, you should know that, and you and she should be encouraged enough to help him.
We know you don't want her to die, but she must, as painful as that may be for you,
Don added.
As long as she's in the physical world, the masked men will find new ways to torment her, especially if Eros continues to weaken their power. We all hope he will succeed in thwarting the masked men's ambition, that of turning the world into a gigantic fascist state, whose repression they'd say is justified by the out-of-control lust and fear noted in the people. If Eros succeeds in stopping the masked men's plan, they'll still have enough power to continue hurting her. And they'll really want to torture her then, for they'll want revenge.
You want my daughter to stay alive because you're in love with her,
Agape mentally told Armand.
But as long as she's alive, she'll be a slave to her desires, and therefore at the mercy of the masked men.
In the other world, she can be rescued from hell and brought into the heavenly realms,
Dr. Singh communicated psychically from Vancouver.
There she'll have a much better life than she could ever have here.
She'll be made pure of sin,
Don added.
Like a child, pure and innocent, as Jesus says we all must be to enter heaven. In fact, we'll make sure she takes on a child's form when she's in heaven, to help her take her mind off of sex. That should keep her from wanting to return to hell.
And keeping her from wanting to return to hell will be vitally important to us,
Agape told Armand.
If she returns there, after all our efforts to free her from those realms, what if she--still addicted to desire, and in her state of increasing mental instability--does nothing more than shift back and forth from realm to realm in that inferno, and finds herself trapped there forever? Maybe we could get her out again, but what if she keeps going back after our every rescue of her? It would be a state of everlasting madness for all of us. She must be delivered from the hell of this physical world, then taken out of the hellish realms once and for all...or all is lost.
In the heavenly realms, she'll be happy, Armand,
Candice told him.
Don't you want that for Camilla? Heaven is like a Buddhist Pure Land, right next to the realm of Nirvana. It would be a perfect resting place for her.
Our psychic efforts, along with the help we're getting from my former AIDS patients like you, are making
some
progress in reversing the lust and fear energy that the Satanists are spreading all over the world,
Dr. Singh pointed out.
But Eros' invaluable assistance is making our progress seem non-existent in comparison, the way the morning sunlight makes a candle by a window increasingly redundant and unnecessary.
Release her, Armand,
Agape begged him.
Release her from the psychic bonds you put her in so she can let go of this world.
Let her have some peace, perhaps for the first time in her whole life,
Don said.
We can't keep up this psychic barrier against the masked men forever,
Candice told Armand.
Sooner or later, they'll break through it and hear what we're communicating about. Then they'll know what Eros is doing. We can't let them know that, and reverse his efforts.
Armand thought for a minute about what they'd been saying. Then he said, "Eros can defeat the masked men--completely, I'm sure, eventually draining them of
all
their power. When he finally does, she'll be forever free of them, and I'll marry her. Then we'll meditate together, she'll grow in spirituality, and she'll have peace."
The masked men, though incapable of knowing what psychic conversation Armand was having with Dr. Singh and the spirits, were aware of his resolve not to let her go, and of his desire to have her to himself.
"Good work," said the Montreal leader to the other masked men in his mansion. "Armand's mind is putty in our hands."
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That night in Montreal General Hospital, an orderly brought a male friend of his into Camilla's room, careful not to let any other staff see them enter.
"OK, here she is," he told his friend, pulling the sheet off her body. "So, John, what do you think of her? Isn't she hot?"
