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"Like Hitler, Stalin, Attila the Hun and Napoleon Thewith inrandeur"

"They all failed because they overestimated their power We do not intend to make that mistake"

Dirk looked around the table at the beautiful woo unnoticed that his sister's red hair matched theirs as well "Despite the fact you have the sas"

"No, we are not actually related"

"When you say ho do you include?"

"The woion We follow the long-lost teachings of the Celtic Druids handed down through the centuries"

"The ancient Druids were more myth than fact"

Irritation flickered at the corners of Epona's lips "They have existed for five thousand years"

"They're only the stuff of which legends are ion and rituals existed until one hundred years before Christ"

"No written records, but their knowledge and spheres of poere handed down by word of inated in the ancient Celtic tribes Circled around the caht, they offered their people dreams of happiness amid the day-to-day toil to stay alive They conceived their ifted at creating a religion that inspired and enlightened the Celtic world They acted as doctors, icians, seers, mystics, advisors and, perhaps most important, they beca Because of thehout the Western world To beco men and wo encyclopedias Diogenes the Greek said the Druids were the world's wisest philosophers Many Druids ohout Celtic culture"

Dirk shrugged "Druidism was a pathetic illusion It was also evil They held huo about your business as if the people you killed never existed Druidiso and you won't accept it"

"Like h ancient in concept, is as relevant and alive today as it was five thousand years ago What you don't realize, Mr Pitt, is that we are experiencing a Renaissance Because Druidism has a timeless wisdom and is spiritual and charismatic, it has been reborn around the world"

"Does it still include human sacrifice?"

"If the ritual calls for it"

r />Dirk was repulsed by the thought that these woious sacrifice as an excuse for an to see that if he couldn't take Summer and flee the island, the same fate was likely in store for the hi ood weapon