There was an old saying in Europe: All roads led to Rome.
The people of ancient Rome had already built a road leading to the Adriatic Sea, but Joseph would not follow the ancients along that road, which UNESCO had designated a World Heritage Site, to Montenegro.
The wind whipped up by the spinning propellers made it impossible for Joseph to keep his eyes open. This was the twenty-first century, and the Church happened to be very wealthy. Why take a train or a ship when they had helicopters?
By the time he boarded with his suitcase, there was already another passenger inside.
If the Pope died, he would become the Camerlengo. But the Pope was still alive, so he was merely the Pope's personal assistant.
The personal assistant pointed at the headset over his ears, seemingly telling Joseph to put one on as well. The propellers were too loud; even shouting would not make them heard. Once they wore the headsets, only the two of them could hear each other.
"Have you been to the Forbidden Forest?" the personal assistant asked.
"No!" Joseph answered.
"Then you haven't been to Bavaria either?"
"That's right!"
"Then you should know that not all of Europe fell into witchcraft panic during the Middle Ages!" the personal assistant roared. "But some people profited from the witchcraft panic. From 1590 to 1620, for nearly thirty years, Bavaria was mired in a struggle for power. Only Jesuits could defeat Jesuits. Nearly all of Bavaria's political elite and most of the Jesuit brothers were drawn into it. Some even supported witches spreading panic through their territories. The Chief Justice at the time, Gottfried Sattler, was sent to the guillotine for abusing the death penalty. The 'witches' he convicted were innocent, though he insisted that he was innocent."