"Holy Light appeared at Saint-Ang Cathedral?"
"Someone saw the ghostly wings of an Angel?"
"Lisa and Dr. Simon might be Supernaturals?"
Only the birth of the Son of God had been kept secret. There was no hiding the rest of what had happened at Saint-Ang Cathedral. When Lisa and Dr. Simon received the Lord's divine power and became Angels, light had soared into the sky, bathing the cathedral and its surroundings in a warm glow.
The city government passed the news to the Élysée Palace as soon as it heard.
"Praise the Lord." President Bilborn's face flushed, and his heart began to pound.
Saint-Ang Cathedral stood on Gaul's soil. Lisa and Simon were native-born Gauls, Brittany through and through.
Lisa's sense of belonging might be uncertain, since the Church had raised her from childhood. Simon was another matter.
Both his parents worked for the government. He regularly subscribed to the Gaul Evening News, a paper that had long been hostile to the Papal State and had exposed Church scandals several times. Online, he admired Voltaire, who was famous for his scathing criticism of the Church.
What did that tell them?
He's Gaul's Supernatural champion, that's what.
Only Gaul's Supernaturals would care so much about scandals in the Papal State. Their forebears had been famous for standing up to it.
And what did a Supernatural represent in this day and age?
A deterrent!
Just look at the Eastern Isles. Once America's lackey, regularly fleeced by it, they had stood up and said no to America after Supernaturals appeared in the Living World. Even Iceland, with a standing military force of practically zero, dared to slam the table in front of the Bear Nation's president, paying no heed to its two million troops and 6,450 nuclear warheads.
Now Gaul's own Supernatural champion