händel and grendel

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Händel and Grendel traipsed into the city, despite the warning their psychotherapist gave them ("The city is populated by the tasteless and ignorant; entering it will bring you nothing but waste and ire.").

And they saw gladiators
                        and cathedrals
                                      and soldiers
                                                    and pipelayers.

And they came upon the Sports Bar and Choir, and they did drool at the sight of the Altar B-Boys.  The Händel, he did lust, and the Grendel, she did hunger.  And the Barman saw this, and smiled a secret smile, and ordered the B-Boys to reenact their births, as if they were enduring it again.  And as the Händel and the Grendel became engrossed in the staged rebirth, the Barman put a spell on them, to make them his.  And the Händel and the Grendel were so captured, and their helplessness was so vexing, but ALAS!

The Monk, as he took the psychotherapist in penance, was told about the perilous and unwise journey the Händel and the Grendel had taken, interrupted his task, and set out immediately to seek and deliver them, for they both had been set aside by him, anointed, to reign in Heaven and Hell respectively after the world ended for the third and last time.

And he did slay the misguided and greedy Barman, and he did take him, and he did rescue the Händel and the Grendel, and he did chastise them, and he did then, satisfied with his saga, set them free.

Händel then went back to the psychotherapist and confessed his sins. His penance was the music, which would outlive them all.

Grendel then disemboweled the Monk.

And all was well.