Blood of the Faithful
“Ezekiel Smoot said. “It literally shoved Jacob out the door.”
He studied his father’s troubled expression, wondering, worried that he was pushing the older man too hard and too fast. Elder Smoot stroked his beard with one hand and rubbed the brass beehive on the end of his cane with the other. He still sat in a chair directly behind the podium, where he’d been throughout the church meeting.
The chapel had emptied and the lights were flickering. There were strict regulations about electr...icity use in the valley, but people would be arriving at home, turning on just one light so they could see to light a lamp, or justifying why they needed to run this electric pump or fire up that semi-licit appliance. It was the sort of behavior that led to brownouts. In fact, Ezekiel or his father should have already flipped the breaker on the chapel. With the sun down and the solar arrays off, that left the turbines at the reservoir, but they produced a limited quantity of electricity.MoreLess
He studied his father’s troubled expression, wondering, worried that he was pushing the older man too hard and too fast. Elder Smoot stroked his beard with one hand and rubbed the brass beehive on the end of his cane with the other. He still sat in a chair directly behind the podium, where he’d been throughout the church meeting.
The chapel had emptied and the lights were flickering. There were strict regulations about electr...icity use in the valley, but people would be arriving at home, turning on just one light so they could see to light a lamp, or justifying why they needed to run this electric pump or fire up that semi-licit appliance. It was the sort of behavior that led to brownouts. In fact, Ezekiel or his father should have already flipped the breaker on the chapel. With the sun down and the solar arrays off, that left the turbines at the reservoir, but they produced a limited quantity of electricity.MoreLess
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