Chapter 7: The Warrens Grow

Montfort was dark as Malikai walked.  The entire area around the old
temple was being rebuilt by it's inhabitants.  Building new hovels
and shanties with the ruins of the old tenements.  The air reeked of 
crime and poverty.  Malikai had drawn the poorest and meanest of the 
survivors here with his powers.  Now they snapped and fought with each 
other like caged animals.  He passed a crying woman in an alley, and 
another block down, he passed the body of her attacker being picked 
clean by a different thief.  Malikai smiled and soaked up the pain and 
misery.  

The temple was being referbished as well as the area.  Mary stood on 
the steps of the structure and watched the rabble working with a cold 
eye.  "Malikai, it's good to see you again." she said without any real 
conviction.  "The chamber is almost ready."  Malikai smiled.  he walked 
into the temple, and into the hidden passageway to the catacombs.  He 
walked into the altar room and was pleased to see the room was almost 
ready.  Soon, he would consacrate the altar to the maiden of pain, and 
then there would be power.