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bending over. He rests his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath.
    “March.” I pat him. “What are you doing here?”
    “Now that’s what I really need.” Tom rolls his eyes. “Another lunatic in my asylum.”
    “Shut up.” I elbow him. “March, are you all right?”
    “I am, Alice. I am,” The March says, straightening up. “It’s you who I’m worried about.”
    “Me?”
    “Yes, you, Alice.” The March pulls out his phone, scrolls down to show me something.
    This is when I begin to have an idea of the Pillar’s new game.
    “You sent me this message, Alice,” The March says. “You said I have to immediately meet you in the Radcliffe Asylum. You said: “It’s happening .”
     
     

Chapter 11
    Buckingham Palace, London
     
    The Queen and Margaret anxiously awaited the message they had been promised. Nothing came, so they killed time by watching the BBC news. Margaret had assumed that maybe the message would be part of the national news. Again, nothing of importance.
    The BBC was covering the Vatican’s news. After the Chessmaster had brutally killed the pope on live TV a few days back, they were pressured to elect a new one right away. Masses gathered in the piazza outside St. Peter’s, awaited the announcement.
    “What’s so important about this new pope?” The Queen asked, standing close to her bed, making sure Humpty’s head wouldn’t roll out and expose her in front of Margaret.
    “There is a rumor that the people want the new pope to be stronger than the last one,” Margaret said.
    “Stronger? How?” The Queen chuckled. “They want a Kung Fu pope?”
    “Actually, it’s something like that. The people want a kickass pope, one who’d stand up to terrorists like the Chessmaster.”
    “That’s absurd,” The Queen said. “All popes have to be wusses.”
    Margaret’s eyes glimmered with shock. “I can’t believe you just said that. It’s insulting.”
    “But it’s the truth. Popes and religious idols have to play nice all the time,” Said the Queen. “I agree with the people that it’s time to have a cruel pope. Do you think Donald Trump is a good idea?”
    Margaret rolled her eyes, looked away, and resisted spitting back at the person she hated most in the world but ended up working for; which was a common feeling among employees, almost everywhere.
    “So what about your messenger?” The Queen changed the subject.
    “We’ll have to wait.”
    “He couldn’t possibly know about the happening .”
    “We can’t risk dismissing him. I heard Alice was told about her family by the Chessmaster.”
    “She knows?”
    “Not everything, but once she does, it’s going to get bloody.”
    Carolus suddenly burst into the chamber, holding out a note. “Second message has arrived.”
    The Queen snatched it from his hands immediately. “Did you see who sent it?”
    “Couldn’t. Someone slipped it underneath the door by the guards.”
    “What does it say?” Margaret asked the Queen.
    “It’s more of a joke,” The Queen puffed. “This is nonsense.”
    “Just tell me what it says.” Margaret snatched the note from her.
    The Queen watched her ferocious assistant read with disappointment. She waited until she saw Margaret looking back at her, and enjoyed the disappointment in her eyes, too.
    The second message simply said to wait for the third message…
     
     
     
     

Chapter 12
    Radcliffe Asylum
     
    I watch Tom jump up and down in anger after hearing the March speak.
    “I knew it!” He says. “The Pillar would have never asked to meet you here. It’s another one of his games.”
    “Why gather us all here?” The March wonders.
    “He’s got a point,” I say. “The Pillar could have just asked the March to be here as well.”
    “Then who’s invited you two here? And why?” Tom pops down another pill. He seems to really fear the Pillar now. “Who’d want you here in the asylum? And why hasn’t the Pillar shown up yet.”
    I cut the chitchat by