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    Sean said, “Kirk got beheaded, and it happened right in front of us.” The men shuddered. One man, Peter, a shorter man wearing a dark green shirt, stepped close to David, went to one knee and leaned against the armrest on David’s chair. “What?”
     
    “David, can you tell us what happened? How… ?” Peter asked.
     
    David took a deep breath. “Remember how we were talking about the proposal to force everyone to take some kind of mark on their forehead that was mostly invisible except to machines? Some kind of bar code?”
     
    Jesse answered, “Yes, we had heard that but I didn’t think the proposal had passed. Just a lot of talk, so far as I heard. And I know that,” Jesse paused and looked at the other men, “the Mark is something we Christians are just not supposed to take. Not ever.”
     
    Sean spoke up. “Well, they brought up some people in a pick-up truck and pointed guns at them and tried to make them all take the Mark.”
     
    “Who are you talking about, Sean?” Jesse asked.
     
    “It looked like a bunch of Muslim men in trucks,” David said. One of the men nearby hurriedly walked towards one of the tents. “They came to the roadblock and had some kind of machine that would imprint the Mark on people, and one by one, the men forced everyone there to receive it.”
     
    “Wait a minute,” another man, Andrew, said. Andrew was a thin man with black hair, looking older than his 25 years. “Some machine that would put the Mark on people’s foreheads?”
     
    “Apparently,” David answered. He looked at Andrew and took a deep breath. “I guess you never heard the news about the proposal to get everyone to take a mark of some kind on their foreheads, so that the government could keep track of everyone?”
     
    Jesse said, “Yeah, that was a crazy idea. Obviously satanic. But what was so strange about it was that no one in the government seemed to know how bad an idea it was.” Jesse looked back at David. “So I guess it’s here, and they brought some people up to the road block to take the Mark right in front of you guys.”
     
    David paused and inhaled. “Yeah, and one by one, all the people there all took the Mark, including Jackie,” he paused again.
     
    Peter leaned forward, “Wait! Jackie took the Mark? Are you sure?”
     
    “Yes. It happened,” David sighed. “I saw Jackie take the Mark. No doubt about it.”
     
    Both Jesse and Peter looked at each other, shocked. The other men there tensed up. One said quietly, “No…”
     
    “Jackie …?” Peter tried to confirm.
     
    “She did it right in front of us. Right there.”
     
    “And then they beheaded Kirk?”
     
    “They just killed him,” David answered without emotion. “They beheaded him. Right in front of us. They beheaded Kirk.”
     
    Several slight gasps could be heard. No one said anything. Peter stood up and turned around as he put his hand on his mouth.
     
    Several women and one man left a tent nearby and approached David. One of the women asked, “David, are you OK? What happened?”
     
    Jesse interjected, “Some men drove up to the roadblock and killed Kirk.”
     
    “Kirk the neighbor?”
     
    “Yes.”
     
    The small crowd grew confused and shocked, and started asking the same questions again.
     
    “Look, guys, Sean and I were there at the observation post and we saw a group of trucks drive up and stop. It looked like a bunch of Muslim men got out with guns and started forcing everyone they brought with them to take what they called the Mark of Allegiance.”
     
    Jesse started pacing nearby.
     
    “How did the …?”
     
    “They had a machine on the back of one of their trucks,” David continued. “Some kind of machine that would put the Mark on people’s foreheads and match it up with their thumbprint. Everyone there but Kirk took it. Jackie included. By the way… – “
     
    One of the women interrupted David. “Excuse me David, but did you say that Jackie took the