19 chapter 21 (1/2)

The cult leaders were given a grand life and wanted for nothing. They did not have to work for anything and took whatsoever they wanted or thought of wanting. The slaves of the invisible hand had

to support the lavished lifestyles of it's leadership without question.

The slaves of the cult were to worked until they dropped dead in the desert and eaten by vultures.

Donas and Iona had tried to forget to why they left their own home, if you could even call it that.

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The pair were working one day on an idol dedicated to the great shadow. They were trained to make elaborate idols in their early childhood.

They were like drones in that had a specific function that they and could do not much more. The cult leaders wanted that their workers did a lot of work and knew only how to do very little. The invisible hand had wanted to keep a monopoly on all knowledge in the territory of Socanas.

Knowledge could and often be very powerful. The lack of knowledge creates a dependence on those who posses such desired knowledge.

Donas and Iona were not romantically involved since they taught that sex without leadership's permission was a punishable offense. The workforce usually would act asexual in their behavior so that more work could be done, as commanded by the cult leader.

The two were both very good sculptors and that talent was used by the invisible hand to make idols of the great shadow and his followers.

Donas and Iona were taken in completely enclosed buggies so that could not figure out a route to escape. The invisible hand was extremely paranoid and left nothing to chance. The cult wanted to

control everything that went on in the desert.

The pair of Iona and Donas had been alone most of the day and it was starting to get dark. The idol that the pair was working was finished and they were double checking the statues for any errors.

Donas spoke,” The back side of the statue is correct, how about the front?”

Iona was finishing looking over the front and she said,”The front is identical to the drawing that

we were given.”

Donas had a gotten an old wooden ladder and was looking over the top of the elaborate statue.

Donas speaks,”Good, let me finish looking over the top of the statue.

The idol was that one of the great shadow's various evil spirits.

The invisible hand cult worships the great shadow and his demons. They demanded that all idols be perfect and without any blemish.

If ether Donas or Iona made a single mistake then they would be killed. The cult leaders would look at the idol at every considerable angle to see that it was correct.

A short fat man begins to walk towards the pair of Donas and Iona with a sinister look on his plump face.

The pair bow to the fat man in a prostrate position(on all fours with forehead to the ground).

The large man was a lower class cult leader and he was not here to check up on Donas and Iona's progress with the idol. He had other ideas in mind.

The man speaks,”Male slave you can now leave now! Raise your head and make your leave immediately! Make haste and leave us without looking back!”

Donas jumps right to his feet and makes a standing bow.

Donas speaks,” The statue of...”

The cult leader cuts him off and says,”Just leave us or you will die! Do not question me, slave!”

Donas bows and begins to walk away.

He obeys as he has been taught since he has been taught. The cult leaders were to be obeyed

since to the cult they were perfect. The invisible hand were to be obeyed or else.

Donas thinks,” The leader did not care about the statue! That does not make sense since the leaders focus so much on worshiping our beloved spirit guides. The master had wanted to see only Iona and not me! It does not make any sense!”

Donas was walking very slowly since he felt ill to stomach as Iona was in danger somehow! Back at the site of the newly built idol, there is Iona still in a prostrate position on the ground.

Iona was being to wonder what was going on and she being to ponder,”Why has Donas had sent

away and not me? It does not make any sense or does the master here have a special purpose for me? I hear that some blessed workers get to to be used for special purposes! Could I be a candidate for becoming a special worker?”