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down from the window. I think he was being blackmailed by Huber. I think he sacrificed himself to save us.”
    “You think he is dead?!” She stood up and he shook his head.
    “I don’t know he is dead, but I don’t know what happened to him,” Mark told her. “But I do know that if he is able, he will do everything within his power to help us… all of us.”
    Luke Matthew stepped out of the cave and called them inside. Their thirty-seven ‘glimmers’ were up.
     
     
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    Ereshkigal and her Boggans and several more people ran down the meadow between the pavilions, covered gaming areas and playing fields. Something tremendous had just erupted from the earth in the middle of the driving range, throwing dark earth and rock fragments in all directions; at this, the Queen was furious.
    The huge dark creature, or whatever it was, ripped upwards into the sky, trailing tufts of grass, pebbles, dirt and dust behind it. Then it banked and swooped back down onto the remains of the green, coming to rest at the far end of the meadow. They could see it quite clearly, a tremendous black shape glimmering in the ultra green grass. It was alive, a living creature, exceedingly sleek with a long tail, two bulbous eyes and flippers on either side of its broad mouth.
    As they ran toward it, the skin seemed to ripple and then the mouth opened wide, exposing a bright light from within. Five figures, silhouetted against the glare walked out of the gaping mouth and across the green toward them.
    “How dare you destroy my driving range?!” The angry Queen shouted as they slowed to a walk.
    Louis stopped and held Oriel back. Konrad ran on few dozen yards closer with Levi and Apolonio. Paddy and his clurichauns, Lemarik’s Templars and some of the Boggans formed an impromptu line of resistance across the yard in front of the Queen. Thaddeus stopped and waited for his father and mother to catch up.
    The mouth closed and the light disappeared.
    “Lucifer!” Konrad shouted when he recognized the figure of the errant messenger of Light. “Great God in Heaven!” He shouted and ran toward them.
    They stopped short in front of the unexpected travelers and Lucifer raised both arms. Beams of light sprouted from the top of his head and from both hands.
    “Behold and fear not, I bring good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people, men and elves! All who are here below and those above,” he began his announcement. “To you is born a child, Who will be a testament and a sign unto you. He shall be the beginning and the end, the Blessed and only Potentate, the Bread of Life, the Bright and Morning Star. Lo, bow ye down and worship Him that He might be unto you a Savior.”
    “What is he talking about?” Apolonio asked his grandfather.
    “I think I know,” Levi said and turned to look back toward the pavilion where Menaka had stayed behind with Sophia and the baby.
    “The child is here?” Armand asked as Konrad hugged and kissed him in the Templar fashion.
    “He is,” Konrad said. “How did you…? Where did you…? What is that… creature?!”
    “That is Uriel’s spaceship. Surely, even you have heard the tale of Jonah and the Leviathan?” Lucifer answered before hurrying off down the meadow toward the pavilion in search of the baby with the Queen and her Boggan Captain on his heels. He ignored her demands for answers, and the Captain’s orders to halt. Her Boggan soldiers were terrified of him, and the others made no move to stop him. He traveled on, unstoppable until he reached the black, red and yellow pavilion near the barbecue pit. Sophia stood up when she saw them all coming toward her. Menaka stepped in front of her instinctively and shoved the baby in her arms.
    Lucifer stopped directly in front of Menaka, and then went down on his knees, bowing his head before the child.
    Everything seemed to stop and nothing could be heard other than the beating hearts of everyone present.
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