Burden of Ages  1498: Reliquary  My most gracious lord.  As per
your request I departed from Milan few minutes after the six
chariots, those that carried away the reliquary and the
documents. It’s with great sorrow that I have to inform that
many items have been stolen.  On the second day of travel, and a
short time before sunset the convoy stopped, they signaled a
blockade with their horns, I sneaked through the top of the
trees and watched as Cipriano and Lotario descended to remove
from the road the trunk of a fallen tree; astonished I noticed a
particular lack of efficiency in their movements, and a
remarkably different way of bearing themselves.  Then, all hell
broke lose… The musketeers caught on fire without apparent
cause, and without the telling of a heretic spell; also the
drivers fell down by arrows of Varangians, as my later
recollection would show.  By then the alert was nigh, the second
and fourth chariots spitted fire with their weapons, but also
were engulfed by fire that laid waste to their g