Tom and Woody left with Mary and Herod to bring the other men into the main meeting room. I stayed with John to try to describe a burning sense of urgency I was feeling.
"John, I can't explain what I'm feeling inside," I started.
"It is like an urgency to do something, or that something else is about to happen, right?" He guessed.
"How did you know?" I asked.
"I have felt it many times, my friend. I remember once, on an island we visited with Jesus, there was this boy who was deeply troubled by demonic spirits, who brought injury to him. I felt the same urgency then, but did not know what to do. I guess I was afraid that whatever I tried would fail, and the poor boy would suffer still," he explained.
"So you did nothing?" I asked.
"You are correct. However, Jesus did what we feared we could not; he spoke to the boy, and he was suddenly in his right mind, no longer troubled by the tormenting spirits," He finished.
"So that is why it was so easy for you to help this man who was dying?" I asked.
"That was just one of the things that built my faith," John suggested.
As John finished his statement, Mary came running up to us, urging us to follow her to Herod's room. We complied, and came to the room where the men had been lying on the floor, but there were no bodies; just Herod and Tom scratching their heads.
"Where did they go?" Herod asked fearfully.
"They didn't come past us," John offered.
"Let's go see if they are in the crowd in the main meeting room anyway," I suggested.
"You are suggesting they got past us without us seeing them?" John asked.
"Stranger things have happened," I proclaimed.
We left the room, and headed for the main meeting room. By now we could hear the firemen in the building, still searching for a fire.
"What are the firemen doing here?" Herod asked.
"There is a glow emanating from this building. The whole area is aware of it," I said.
"So they think the building is on fire?" Herod asked.
"I guess so. I tried to tell them otherwise, but they wouldn't listen," I answered.
We arrived at the double doors that opened into the main meeting room, and scanned the crowd with our eyes.
"It will be difficult for us to recognize the men from the room, Herod. We didn't get a good look at them," Tom said.
"I don't see them yet, either," He said, acknowledging he would be the only one who could recognize them.
We strained our eyes looking through the crowd for new faces, but it was no use; only Herod was going to be able to tell if the men were there or not.
