Following Robert's successful contact with the goat and the wolf, the Oracle paid another visit to Robert's house to inform them of further developments in the Raven's circle that she had become apprised of. She told them that she had been looking into some interesting financial transactions, specifically involving Prism Capital, that led her to believe that the Raven had made contact with the pig a long time ago, and she agreed with the goose's belief that Dr Fyodor Milichenko was in some way affiliated with the snake. What all of these developments added up to was that things were undoubtedly coming to a head and there was a need for greater urgency on the part of Robert and the goose in marshalling their forces.

"You know it doesn't work that way," the goose responded, "the process and the traditions have to be respected."

"Your respect for these traditions has led to more than a few close calls before."

"Nonetheless, this is how it must be done."

"I'm wondering what you make of John Lafferty and the Church of the Golden Goose and the way their opinions of you have changed over the course of the last few weeks?"

"I know nothing about that," the goose answered.

"I was stunned when I first found out about it myself; here, look."

The Oracle withdrew her phone from her bag, brought up The Church of the Golden Goose's YouTube channel and hit play on one of their most recent videos. In the video, John Lafferty, the head of The Church of the Golden Goose, is giving a lecture in which he's discussing new writings that the church had discovered that point to the goose being feared as an agent of destruction and to the existence of a second divine bird, a raven, that possessed all the strength that the goose possessed and perhaps even more. The writings in question were found in ancient Mayan structures in Central America that depict the goose requesting humans be sacrificed in its name before it intercedes to protect them from a great flood, and that, before the slaughter was to begin, the Raven appeared with news that there would be no flood. The lecture was accompanied by a slideshow of authentic looking images of hieroglyphs depicting the story than John Lafferty had just recounted.

"That is not true!" The goose said angrily, "The rat had filled those people's heads with talk of impending doom and the need for human sacrifice and it was up to me and the wolf to stop them, which we were able to do but only momentarily, the rat had been so thorough about convincing them of the need for human sacrifice that they started doing it anyway, and there was nothing that we could do to stop them."

"I sense the Raven's influence at work here," the oracle said.

"No, John wouldn't, he's devoted to me."

"As we both know, every person has their price."

"Not John, money doesn't motivate him at all."

"Maybe the Raven didn't offer him money, maybe it offered him something else that was enough for him to turn on you like this."

"If that's the case then I need to talk with him, I need to know what he was tempted with."

"You know you can't do that, you can't make contact with people that have entered the Raven's sphere, it's not allowed."