Last night, The Sept of River's Might held the Gathering of the departed for Domenico Luciano' Athro Homid Glasswalker Ahroun of the nation. Nico, as some of you know, was a devout Roman Catholic. Roberto and I attended mass this morning and the gospel reading really... spoke to me of Nico. I know that many of you are not Christian but I ask your patience for a moment in Nico's memory, to allow me to share those verses with you.

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." He replied, "What do you wish me to do for you?" They answered him, "Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left." Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" They said to him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared." When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them and said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Last night, Nico's packmate and a Galliard of the nation, Cleric, called upon the spirits to witness Nico's deed name of "Leads through the Storm". I feel that Nico's life provided an excellent model of how to lead through serving and how to serve through leading. I would ask the garou of the nation to pay heed Nico's example as related through the stories of the galliards, and in learning, strengthen us all.

Brianna McCaffery,
Mate of Domenico "Leads through the Storm" Luciano
Kinfolk in support of the Bulletproof pack,
polling clerk for Taminy Hall,
Sept of the River's Might