There were ten thousand of them (a Myriad) gathered out in the desert. They were waiting for the return of Jasper Kell (A Vigil).They had somehow gotten the ideas that: Jasper Kell was born of the desert to a gay man; that he possessed a sense of Auravision; that he had cured his own blindness; and that he had brought a dead man back to life. Moreover, they thought he had become an eagle, and that he was going to fly down from the mountaintop to become...