Bless me Ultima #8 Ch. 9

Chapter nine starts off with Tony having a memory of his brothers going into Rosies, which is pretty much a whore house. He pleads for them not to go in but they do. He wakes up terrified to the thought of his brothers becoming sinners. I didn't really like the first few pages of this book because Eugene and leon leave. By doing this they leave their mom and dad heartbroken, Andrew can't believe they left so soon. Andrew is the only one who stayed and he decides to take Tony to school, again the Vitamin kid shows up and challenges them to a race, they lose of course. Then when Tony get's out of school, he meets up with Samuel. They mentioned that fishing for carp is bad luck. He told Tony the story of Jason's Indian and how he told Samuels father a story about carp and why it is forbidden to eat them. I found this story very interesting, I put it in my own words like this:

- So he mentions that the carp were put in the river and were not to be eaten, one day the world flooded and the only thing to eat was the carp so the people ate it, the gods got mad and cursed the people, they were about to kill all the people for what they did, but then there was one god that stood up for them, so the gods gave the people a second chance and instead turned them all into carp. The god that saved the people is known as the Golden Carp, he still roams the rivers. I found this passage interesting because Tony is a Catholic and by believing in this new god he is breaking one of Gods amendments, You shall not have any gods before me. Tony is confused and does not know who to believe.