M3

The bell for morning prayer sounded, the deep sound echoing around the courtyard.I crawled out of my hard uncomfortable bed and set my feet down on the cold stone floor. I walked barefoot into the assembly area were Saint Benedict was preparing to give a prayer, I took my spot and knelt down. Later during lunch two monks came up to me and whispered.

" We are going to try to kill Benedict again," they whispered "do you want to help."
" I'm in.
" At ten o'clock we are going to sneak in to his chamber and poison his bread"
"All right, see you then."
The monks sneaked quietly away to make sure they weren't seen. Everybody hates Benedict, if we succeed we will be hailed as heroes.

 The day passed quickly, I hurried through my days prayers and chores, soon it was almost ten. At five till I sneaked up the stairs to Benedict's tower quarters, the other two monks were already there.
"What took you so long, we thought that you had chickened out on us. He isn't in there yet, he's probably down stairs leading the evening prayer, we've got a couple of minutes at most"
"Do you have the poison," I asked.
"Yes, it's right here"
"Lets go"
We pushed open the door, the gentle glow of candle light greeted our eyes.