How It All Goes Down
- Back to Aringarosa, who's still approaching Castel Gandolfo.
- He's ushered up to the library, where a group of men sit in the shadows to address him. That's, um, normal, right?
- The men are the Secretariat Vaticana, and two high-ranking Italian cardinals.
- They get right down to business: they're happy with how expediently Aringarosa's taken care of things.
- He's happy they have a ton o' money (well, large-denomination bearer bonds drawn on the Vatican Bank) in a briefcase for him.
- Turns out it was the Teacher's idea to have their reward be in bonds traceable to the Vatican. That way they can be held liable, as well.
- The church guys are uncomfortable with this arrangement.
- They are eager to have Aringarosa sign a document, however, and then when that's done, Aringarosa's outta there.