Standing alone in the desert under the warm morning sun...

"God forgive me, for I know not what to do," Grandmaster Reynolds falls to his knees in the hot desert sand. "Why Lord do you try me so. Have I not proven myself to you and done as you asked? The heathen kings of Egypt have fallen, the nomad armies of the Saracens are on the run, your holy cities returned to Christian hands, and the great state of Jerusalem resurrected from the ashes; but still you try me. With the hunt for the Saracens still fresh, your stray sheep of Greece have fallen in with wolves and the Devils black hand caresses the hearts of the Jerusalem people; and you allowed it? Even now you come to me asking more, but I know not if I can deliver. Please God give me a sign..." Reynolds falls backwards into the warm sand and lies there staring up into the rising sun.

After a few minutes a mighty silhouette blocks out the sun. "God?" Reynolds questions.

"Sir, are you alright?" the stranger tries to offer Reynolds his water, but Reynolds pushes it away.

"What do you want?" Reynolds responds harshly realizing it was not God that had disturbed him.

"Um, I come from Antioch with great news. A mighty force has assembled outside of the city, my Lord. Many are claiming they felt a calling to that spot; from stable boy to the mighty Cannons, they gather, awaiting your orders. The priest are calling this God's will. They say that Jerusalem was corrupted by the Egyptian's occupation and when the Jerusalem King returned, he was not strong enough to break its hold..."

At this point Reynolds was no longer listening to the messenger, even though his theories on Jerusalem's many governmental swings being linked to the Devils corruption where quite interesting; Reynolds's determination had returned.

"Thank you Lord," Reynolds jumps to his feet and shouts to the sky, "for you have not abandoned me even when I had all but given up." Turning to the messenger who was still talking about the crazy Jerusalem politics, Reynolds orders, "Send message to our armies in Anatolia, they are to return to Antioch immediately. God calls us to Crusade once more, but not against Jerusalem, no they are still yet our brothers, it is the dark curruption that must be stripped from these lands once and for all."