ah , those were the days ... when ossory and his followers had broken into the temple and smashed the altar and had thrown the priestesses out of the window to be torn apart by wild dogs , which was the correct way of doing things , and there had been a mighty wailing and gnashing of feet and the followers of om had lit their campfires in the crumbled halls of gilash just as the prophet had said , and that counted even though he 'd said it only five minutes earlier , when they were only looking for the firewood , because everyone agreed a prophecy is a prophecy and no one said you had to wait a long time for it to come true .