Since I want to wish readers a Merry Christmas, I decided to post this short snippet from Chapter Three of The Prodigal Band Aftermath today, Christmas Eve. I’ll be too busy tomorrow to post it on Christmas Day.
The snippet begins Chapter Three, which follows the Shareholder meeting Origin AI company owner and CEO Dumlat posted in the previous snippet post here, whereby Dumlat is questioned by a new shareholder, who happens to share much of what Dumlat believes. The shareholder, a man, asks about Dumlat’s history and why he calls himself Dumlat, which is not his real name.
From the beginning of Chapter Three of The Prodigal Band Aftermath, copyright © 2025 Deborah Lagarde:
After the meeting, Dumlat converses with a Shareholder
“I was told by another shareholder that Dumlat is not your real name.” The man was a new key shareholder who had just attended his first key shareholder meeting. “Can you tell me your real name?”
Dumlat smiled and then answered. “Levitt Franks.”
Shock, for the Franks family was well known to be related to one of the most elite banking dynasty families—the Rockfords, who used Mr. Y—Yakimoro—as their front man. “Oh my God— Really? You are related to the Rockfords?” The man’s eyes popped wide open in amazement.
“Yes. My mother is a daughter of theirs. Before marrying my father, Otto Franks, her trust fund was worth two hundred billion dollars. Her fortune enabled my father to buy his way into the top of the Hollywood movie mogul chain with Tantamount Pictures. It was this use of my family’s huge fortune that allowed me to start up Origin, and it was my family’s connection to images and movies and scripts that caused me to create many CGI images and videos based on those images that my father taught me how to create. Which is why I basically own and control Origin.”
Delight entered the mind of the new shareholder, for he too was into artificial intelligence and controlling the masses using it. But then he thought about why did Levitt Franks re-name himself ‘Dumlat’?
“So, do you call yourself ‘Dumlat’ to hide your connection to one of the most powerful families on Earth?”
“You could put it that way. My family, all of it, are in fact power-seekers, addicted to controlling money and love it! We are consumers of blood at every meal—” Haughty laugh.
“Satanists?”
“Yes. We commit what some call evil because we seek power and money and pleasure, and control over the useless masses who we use to our advantage. And I call myself ‘Dumlat’ because there is a set of texts, religious ones, that seeks to destroy that so-called ‘God’ and that so-called ‘son’ of his, that Jesus Christ garbage.”
“The set of texts is called—”
“I cannot reveal to you or anyone the name of these set of texts. But they are indeed anti-Christ and inspired by the god I worship. There are other texts and verses in this holy book that oppose evil, but the set of texts that inspired me are only those that oppose Christ.”
The other man nodded, not with agreement, but with understanding. Further, the man would not concern himself with the name of this so-called ‘holy book.’
So why was this anti-Christ Dumlat connected to Rita, who aids his AI-cause and is Christian? He uses her as a cover for his anti-Christ beliefs, for he does not want ‘the masses’ to know he is devilishly allied with THE anti-Christ, Satan, also called Corion by some of his associates.
Morwenna, who was invisible during the meeting, remained invisible as she witnessed the conversation between Dumlat and the shareholder. Further, she had angelic spirit being intuition as to the name of that ‘holy book.’
Then she heard one of the Tooters tell her this: “Do not reveal the name of this book to anyone, please, Morwenna. The texts that inspired Dumlat into satanic thinking are not based on any religion, but on the evil some in that religion partake in. All religions, including Christianity, have to some extent through flawed humanity adopted doctrines that were never meant to be adopted.”
She replied, “Will do. As some Christians say, ‘Christ, not religion’.”
I do not know when I will post next what with Chapter Three being a “wip” as many authors use that term, meaning “work in progress” (I don’t know an author who does not use the term “wip”!), but hopefully shortly after New Year’s Day. In fact, the snippet posted above was just completed a couple of days ago.
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