Whitney's new book

 As of today I just got in a copy of She Buildeth Her House, by my sister, Whitney Dotson. I have not yet got the chance to read it, {as I am piled with a number of other books to read}, but I encourage readers here to read it, as I plan to soon. It may be purchased from Queen Supplies. My sister Whitney has based the book off a her life. However, the book has changed some of the historical contacts. I look forward to reading it.

What after this Trilogy?

 I have often thought in my head what will be the next story I will write once I'm done with my Third Crusade Trilogy. I think I may have recently decided.  The Return of Richard the Lionheart and those under him is a very marvelous story, though much different. I would like to make a sequel trilogy eventually on this. I believe it will involve many of the same characters.  While my first three were inspired by many books including The Iliad, I expect the next book  dealing more with a return journey, then necessary the plot revolving mostly around a war. The Odyssey I presume to inspire this eventual coming book. I expect there to be more announcements about this in the future so keep updated. So there you have it, on  a fourth book.

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The Tale of Christus and his Bride

 The Tale of Christus and his bride is set in the Trojan war. I began writing it in one of my journals on December 18, 2013 and finished it on the 21st. One of my favorite works I have written, it is strongly Christian symbolic and the story of  Lord Jesus Christ and His bride, the church. Christus means in  Latin, Christ. I chose the prophetess Cassandra from the tales of the Trojan war to represent his bride. In the original story her ending is tragic but I concluded my own story with her being redeemed. I hope this story will give a closer understanding of  the love of Christ toward us as it did me.

                                                                    Key Characters


                                                                    Prince Christus
                                                                    Princess Cassandra
                                                                    Apollo or Appollyon


                                             The Tale of Christus and his Bride









                                                          Act One, Scene One


                                    Enter Messenger Arphaesus and two others

    King Hara: What business brings you?
   Arphaesus: My most precious lord,I ofell word must I give to you. In the north, Lady Helen of Greece, has been lost to a Trogan prince. Greece and all it's allies prepare for war to surely overthrow it's long inhabited city. King Agememnon calls upon you for aid to his side. He will need your army and large fleet for the assault on Troy.
 King Hara: Has not negotiations with the Trojans been set.
 Arphaesus: Surely, my lord, but they hear not our call to repent of their actions.
King Hara: How dare their actions? Our wrath will be their most assured overthrow. For our forces are mighty and large and they will wash them away like sand on a seashore after the assault of a great flood. If your word is true, than whom we thought to be our closest friends, can no longer be trusted.  For it was the king's daughter of that city that I betrothed my own son. It is a sad day when our alley of Troy has turned against us.
 Arphaesus: Indeed my lord. A great time of surprise is this time of  this war. But nevertheless it has come.
Enter Miltiades.
Miltiades: My lord. I bring horrible news. The once betrothed Cassandra has sold herself to the evil spirit of Apollo,  for the glory of worldly wisdom.  She had fallen away from her called responsibility to marry your own son.
 King Hara slams his fist on chair. : Then accursed is this day. She was meant to be the bride of my son, but she has turned from him now. Most awful news of all is this, for she was the maiden that our household was to take in.
 Miltiades: Agreed in words and in heart and mind am I. For she was has broken her betrothed and has given herself over to evil. Goodness does not let the evil go without being judged. Judgment comes upon all that have fallen. It is not good to let both evil and goodness free.
 Enter Prince Christus
 Christus; What word is it to my father?
 Arphaesus: Grave news my lord.  Princess Helen of Troy has rode off with a Trojan prince.  Troy has not yielded itself and handed her over to us. On this occasion, Greece, prepare for war.
 Christ: And are we to join in the fight?
 Arphaesus: It is King Agamemnon that calls upon all Greek men and it's allies to war. So come and join your father has yet pledged.
 Christus{turning to his father}: And are we to join in the war.
 Miltiades{ interrupting}: Behold my lord. The worst news that thou has heard. Thy once betrothed, thy once great love, has to evil in her willingness joined and united. Betrayed has she to you, as her once thought of loyalty was in fact all a lie and never in fact true. 
 Christus{ falling to the ground in tears for her sake}.
 King Hara: Her own selfish ambition now returns her own arrows upon herself.
 Christus {crying aloud}: Forget her I cannot do. I love her and will set forth her free. My armies will defeat Apollo. 
 King Hara: It is now Apollo that owns her. Cassandra is bound to his fate. 
 Christus: Then I will do whatever I can to set her free. For she is my responsibility.
 King Hara {speaking to son}: Then I am pleased by you words, your cause, your sacrifice.   There is not anyone in the world I love more. So I command thee now, for sake of good, go and set her free.
 Christus{ bowing, while tears wash away}: That I will do.






                                                           Act Two, Scene One


 Monster Apollo and Cassandra enter cave in mountain. Apollo puts glowing necklace around Cassandra's neck to make her owned by him.
 Apollo: A slave you are, and my own. My command is what you ordered.
 Cassandra now weeps in shame of her own doings.: Worldly wisdom is foolishness to both mind and heart. But that I had kept my body for he that truly loves me.
 Apollo: What is it that you say, nobody loves you. You are a foul creature of both flesh and spirit. Nobody calls for you. It is only I that is kind enough to care for you.
 Cassandra continues crying.
 Apollo: Fear not yourself. Your fear is now but all ended. Both heaven and earth's desires are found in me.  The world is full of evil and deceit, that is why I must now be your trust.
 Cassandra{ turning in anger and tears}: Your a horrid monster.
 Apollo: Why do you weep? What is there to hate?
 Cassandra: Everything about you.
 Apollo: To the one that is owned by me, but I lead them to think that I am out for their own good, but for ones like you{ pauses and laughs}: I have no more reason to spread lies, that is because you are already bound to me, and I can care less what you think. Still, nevertheless, I will make you the bride of Apollo.
 A horn blows off from in the distant hills.
 Cassandra: The horn of Troy. A council assembles.
 Apollo: I will find out what this maybe. Stay put until my return. My wings leave for Troy.



                                                      Act One, Scene Three

 Trojan princes assemble for high council meeting.
 Hector: Princes again listen to me. It would be foolish for us to raise ourselves in war against Greece. Their fleets , we have often heard to be many. Their numbers we have heard to be great.
 King Priam: and do you my son, propose we are not strong enough to war off the Greeks.
 Hector: Surely my lord, but still my lord many lives will be lost in the coming struggle. Let us not be quick to war, but pursue further treaties with the enemy.
 King Priam: Obtaining  peace now would be showing ourselves to be weak, and Greece the greater. I will not humiliate my people, nor our fathers before me that have built this land.
 Cheers arise from the lords.  Hector sits in discouragement.
 King Priam: We have shown ourselves in the past to overcome  many forces. Long ago, the Greeks plundered our city. I plan for them not to again.
 Cheers arise again from lords
 Hector: My own brother, Paris, of whom it was prophesied long ago to bring doom to Troy, has brought trouble to us. He has returned to our city, with King Agamemnon's brother's wife, and now all Greece, we have heard from our scout, is in preparation to attack. They have already sent us many threats. Many warnings have they given us. Let us heed their warnings instead of waddling in our pride. Helen is not rightfully ours, let us hand her over to them, and end this war, before it is to late.
 King Priam: He cannot do that, because the world will then say that we have surrendered Helen only because of their mighty forces, of which the Trojans could not handle. I will not hinder our cause to defend this city, of all our fathers.
 Lords cheer again.
 Hector: Fine, this is not. Yet, I to pledge my sword to help defend Troy since this is what the council has chosen.
 A wild cry gains their ears from within the streets.
 Hector: Behold it is my sister Cassandra.
 Cassandra: Woe, woe is Troy. The City is to fall, it's time is coming. Turn now and hand her over whom has caused trouble. Wicked Apollo! Wicked Apollo!
 King Priam: My daughter has gone mad. What illness has fallen over her?
 Hector: A terrible one. A curse is upon her.
 King Priam: Young Hector, take then girl to her room, have her rest until this insanity is over.
 Hector: That I will.
 Hector picks up Cassandra and takes her to her bed.  Cassandra continues crying.
 Apollo{ looking down from high tower of city}: No one believes you Cassandra. A curse have I put upon you, that no one will believe your prophesies. But do not faint yourself to long, for Apollo shall  soon come and snatch you.



                                                     Act One, Scene Three



 Messenger{ to people}: People of Cyprus here me. The king has called upon our forces to join  in the war alongside our good allies the Greeks, against our betrayed ally Troy. For from Greece they have taken Prince Menulas's wife, Helen, and have refused to hand her over to us.  On behalf of this, us kings, have promised not to give up until we have taken her again. To Troy we assault our mustering forces and triumph in this great war.
 Cheers arise from many.
 Messenger: Every able man is called upon to the barracks for training. All workshops of iron will now iron will now also work at night. We will hurry our time and make ready. Our pace must not be slow.
Chorus: And behold, many of the lands now prepare for war. Europe, Africa, Asia now are drawn into this great struggle.  Oh such bloody fields of battle's horror still await us existing men's dreams. Their temps and optimistic plans amount nothing to many of them. No knowledge of the not so gay and terrible calamities that await them. But upon my few lines of words , let I again, step from this stage, and not pardon the audience any longer. The kings and princes now return to act, on this mere playful stage.
 King Hara{ looking down from his window on the cheers of the people}. Alas, months have now passed good Captain Michael. Our forces to war rally again.  I command of you to go and be the guardian of my own son. Advise and protect him on this perilous and journey.
 Michael: That I shall do my lord. My life, be lost if his also.
 King Hara: Very good then, I trust your protection in his, and his protection in your own. Be to each other true friends,  loyal, brave, and honorable.  But remember this above all else. Treat each other with love, and all else will follow. The day is dawning, the time comes soon. Now I commend my forces to war! Be off, and do all for your king that he would wish you!




                                                 Act Two, Scene One


Ships sail through fog.
 Michael: Foggy is this place. The mists is cold, and not attainable to see through.
 Suddenly ships shake, thunder cracks in the sky.
 Michael: The heavens makes sounds. This is their warning to us. Behold the great war is coming.
 Soldiers' voices: Behold the great war is coming.
 Soldier's voices: Behold our lord, Prince Christus, turn us back from the wretched that our lives may be spared from this doom. Mortal are we, and yet not so mortal to wish upon ourselves the wrath of immortality.
 Christus: Quack not in fear. Our cause is just and right. The Lord God of heaven and earth stand before us in pure light.
 Great light opens in mist, showing the ships the way to the island of Troy.
 Christus: Follow the narrow path, and keep our hearts holy, before our holy God. For the True Father knows the wickedness in man's heart and the day to his eternity passing.
 Michael: Stand firm men, and brave to the end. Courage is our hope now.
 Christus: Let all cowardness be sheaved away. For the great war siege shall began soon any day.




                                                      Act Two, Scene Two


   Greek fleets pull towards shore. Ships rage in battle. Soldiers rush to beach to fight the Trojans. Ajax sweeps many Trojans back, while Hector slays many Greeks.
 Odysseus: A great struggle is this that has just now began. Never have my eyes seen such course.
 Nestor: The enemy is strong. Our victory is not as easy as we thought.
 Odysseus: Indeed not. They have as good warriors as us.
 King Agamemnon: Maybe, but our army is still larger, and not yet all have arrived. A large force of Ethiopians are to come and also our allies from Crete.
 Menelaus: Forget not my brother, those of Cyprus also. Prince Christ leads his forces to war to take back and save his beloved Cassandra. He and his own forces too are on our side, and their strength is very great.
 Odysseus: Yes. All those will help, but when shall they come. We need their courage.
 Nestor: Long have been my days,  and many long days have I had. We must be patient. War is a slow progress to victory, it must never be used to quickly, or it will turn into failure.
 Menelaus: Then pray they come. Them and all their forces. For we can surely not defeat this enemy with those alone that have yet come.


                                               Act Two, Scene Three

Chorus: And behold a few days the siege has lasted. Many cries have arose from the city of Troy from women and girls over lost loved ones. The Greeks themselves have now made camp on shore. No sign from the sight of battle has yet shone one side to prove stronger than the other. The test of time or the mind of God would be all knowledgeable about that.

 Trojan commanders from within the city look upon their many wounded men laying on mats and bleeding within side of the city.
 Hector: Oh cursed is this day. Oh cursed it be. For to many men we lost. To many of the brave, to many good fighting men. Our city's once happy sky has now turned wretched over us. Dark time is this and what be our fault? For the day has been in our favor, and why we neither prevailed nor conquered , we lost so much from all of it. More has been lost of us this day, than I ever imagined. Surely, then our cause must not be right.


                                            Act Two, Scene Four

Chorus: Now at last, half a fortnight since Troy's siege has began, Prince Christus and his forces have arrived to join in the Grecian cause. All other allies have now joined , to send their fresh forces, when the battle continues again.

 King Agememonon: Behold lords of Greece, and all else, we celebrate this night. For tis now, a slow struggle have we faced, but with these now new forces, we most assuredly prevail over our enemy.
 Christus: It bethinks me and my men to say, that we are happy to come. For this Greek cause, I have come, and also to gain again my love, Cassandra.
 Odyseues: Prince Christus. Many men have trusted in my wisdom. I plead to you. I plead to you now to turn from her. She is owned by Apollo, and will never again turn back to you.
Christus: I will take her back for myself.
Odyseus: He is a wretched monster. Who can but defeat him?
Christus:  Has his persuasive lips bewitched you? He lets on himself to be far more powerful than he is. I promise you, revenge will fall on him for the evilness he has done. My father sent me to sent to set from her bondage, and yet I came not here for her alone, but rather for the glory of my father. For his wisdom of this world is just. He commanded  me to come here and so I have. I did not come here for  fleeting lasting spoils. Glory of the world which will soon fall away. You persons came here for different causes, many of you for gold. I came here for my father. Both I and the Good Spirit have not lived our lives alone, but we have lived as instruments to glorify the father and one another. And so three yet one we are, and if but one of  us are discluded, then none of us are excepted. For we are one in mind and in cause, but carry three workmanships.  If my father tells me to turn what is evil into good I do it, and so, Cassandra, has given herself to evil for worldly wisdom, which is fleeting and not eternal. But I come here to set her free from this bondage and make her holy again. And for these reasons I love her.
 Odysseus: Then brave you are Christus and loyal. What better man on earth great lords is there than him?

 Chorus: Christus gains the attention and love in many of the council. When the next morning comes, he leads his forces in battle. Slowly the walls of Troy melt and decay in weakness. In time, the Trojans lose both Hector, and Paris, the Greeks, Hector, and Achilles. Many lives in this great war have been lost. But alas comes the day when the Greeks play off to retreat that, that a great horse is left behind, and from the great spring many Greek soldiers that plunder the city. Oh the many great woes that have fallen over Troy.  Virtually all inside are killed and destroyed.

                                    
                                                 Act Two, Scene Five

 Greek commanders enter Troy.
 Odysseus: Heavy ruins is there now. All that is left. And now the city, like a wild torch, burns in fire.
 Christus: There is but one, that I have come to save from it. Where is Cassandra. Where is she?
 Michael: My lord, we have searched the city. Her body we have not found. All that shined, we think to be hers, is this silver cloak.
 Michael hands Christus Cassandra's cloak.
 Christus weeps
 Christus: The fog and fires are dying out. What is that high mountain that I see?
 Michael: It is called Zion.
 Christus draws sword: Then at last, all hope is not lost. Appollyon has taken her, but I will free Cassandra from him.
 Michael: My lord, do not do this. The journey through that mountain is dark and steep. How will you make it to the top?
 Christus: The Spirit will help me.
 Michael: Then let me and my men go also for your help. For our love is towards you, and you are our honor. 
 Christus: No good friend. Let thy men stay put here until my return.  This journey I am called to and I alone. But the voice of the spirit will be there to comfort me. Everyone has their own calling, and this one is mine. But remain faithful and true until my return. For the days are not far until I come again.
 Christus alone, departs from them.

Chorus: and all alone Christus goes, up and up the high mountain top of  Zion, until his feet bleed and his muscles water. But he bears upon himself a heavy burden, and through his walk is tempted by spirits of evil, but listens not to their voices, and every minute speaks to his best friend, the Good Spirit. His travels through evening and morning, through time and eternity. In heavy darkness he walks over sharp rocks and dry ground to bear no for him. But his trust remains not in food, but in the Spirit.  Idle time does he not use, nor time to think of his pain. but he climbs higher and higher until he has reached his destination.


                                          Act Three, Scene One

 Chorus: At last, at highest of the yet seen cliff, a wide cave opens and from it a dark voice springs.
 Voice of Apollyon: Christus, where are you. I smell you, I hear you. Give up yourself or call upon your father to save you. Do not think you can fool me.
 Chritus; Only the foolish  you can fool. There is  no fool in me so don't pretend. Even the Good Spirit is with me.
 Apollo: Is he? How do you know?
 Christus: Do not question me. You have no right to back talk a prince.
 Christu enters cave.
 Great fires spread within inside, but nothing is destroyed.
 Apollo: Turn back lest fear take you. This is my domain.
 Christus: Fear not evil, before it's time is short. Fear what is good I say, for the pleasing of what is right is wisdom, and there is no wisdom in you.
 Apollo: No wisdom in me? Have you not heard.  The woman that you loved turned to me for wisdom. She sought me and gave herself for wisdom. Such love she had for you. Quick she was to turn away from your care. Your mission is hopeless, your causes is unreasonable.  She is mine and could never love you now. Forget her and turn back. You have failed.
 Christus: Your words are useless to my ears. Wisdom of the world did you use to tempt Cassandra. Not a pure wisdom, a faltering one. And now bound to you she hates you, knowing your true self. For the ways of the world stay not long in happiness. It is rather more doom it brings on oneself. And I love her as much now, as I ever have.  I have come for her. Hope is my cause.  Your own blasphemies have condemned you. I cannot turn back now. Hand her over to me, or your life will be taken.
 Apollo laughs. Apollo's voice and spirit exit. 
 Christus: Where have you gone?
 Christus rushes through cave until it's end at other side of the mountain. Night falls over scene. Christus climbs again.

                                                       Act Three, Scene Two

Christus: Cassandra, I come for you. My life is yours.
Christus reaches top of mountain, spots Cassandra under great net.
Christus: My sword my dear beloved comes to your safety.
Christus attempts to cut the net, but is dose not cut, and Cassandra's voice is concealed from talking to him.
 Apollo laughs: She has given herself to me, oh Christus, son of the king.  She can never be yours now. And if you destroy me she dies also
 Christus: I defy evil. I have come afar to save her. I will not give it up now.
 Apollo: But why? Why great prince? She loves you not . You know this. It is your salvation she wants but not you affection and love. You cannot win.
 Christus: Ever lie you tell, is made of some truth. Holy is her heart not yet, and there is none of that is god whiches lives in her. But I have come to save her, and save her I shall. For before her birth I loved her.
 Apollo: Love her, you may. But where matters your love now. Your love cannot save her.
 Christus: You are wrong Appolyon. It is my love that saves her. I give my life for hers, on condition that you harm her not.
 Apollo laughs, the realizes Christus' statement to be true.
 Apollo: A mighty prince gives his life for someone that does not love him?
 Christus: Do not mock me. Your time on earth also to be fleeting.
 Apollo: A sure deal.
 Net over Cassandra breaks, the Good Spirit enters her. Her body and life are transformed to be whole.
 Cassandra: Behold my prince has come, and greater love is it from him, than I know it from no one else.
 Spirit of  Christus departs from body. Body falls and breaks on ground.  Thunder quakes.  Cassandra kneels down and cries.
 Cassandra: My lord I have lost. My beloved lord is gone.
 Apollo: And behold he has failed to save you princess. Whom is there to protect you now.  There is nothing I now desire of you. I will destroy.
 Apollo draws sword and cuts woman's heel.
 Cassandra gives cry.
 Apollo: The good in the world has died away. I will destroy that whom now loves the future king.
 Great voice: Not any more. The woman's blood and those of the saints now cry for your doom. Your time has ended.
 Mountain shakes from earthquake.  A great tree falls and break's Appollyon's head. Morning to a new day follows.
 Christus{ looking uopon Cassandra}: My dear love, my happy love, come and live with me now in joy. For the times of wars and tribulations have now ended.
 Christus takes Cassandra into his arms, and from kiss awakes her from sleep and all pains.
 Christus: Behold my dearest, the evil one did not keep his word. He harmed you and from that my body again awoke.
 Cassandra: Treasured king. My best works can now never win your love. For I turned from you and did not desire you, yet you made me holy and new.
 Christus: Your best works are not to have saved you. My blood has. now forget all that has been, for I wash time and all else away. Together we shall live in peace and paradise. For I have made all things  new.  Now in my father's mansions you will live in them. And there will never be another tear from our eyes or a day of our separation again. Our marriage is now.

  Chorus: and with these words end our play. Christus became king and Cassandra his bride. And in both loyalty and love did they abide. Never again did they separate, but remained close to each other's side.