Chapter 21
Doth every man among them
Hope to enter the Garden of Delight?
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Quran 70:38
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Earth - AD December, 1999
Chicago, Illinois
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"Nancy!—" sixteen year old Elisabeth Kaiser hop-walked across her bedroom to the closet. "Where’s my necklace?"
"Wherever you left it—" Nancy shouted up from downstairs.
"But I can’t find it!—" Elisabeth frantically rummaged through her bureau. "We’re going to be late!"
The glittering blackness of Azrael's eyes glowed with amusement as he spied the errant crucifix peeking out from the floor next to Elisabeth's bureau. He had given it to her, or more precisely, he'd left it in the pocket of her new thrift-shop sweater for her to find the day after she'd fallen off the stage.
"We’ve got plenty of time." Nancy's voice filled with laughter. "You’d
