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In the beginning . . .

About angels: Chapter 3 . . .

Where last we left the residence of Adam and his son Seth: Chapter 16 . . .

Chapter 19

Somewhere between Eden and Nod wandered one of the great granddaughters of Man. Tired of the quarreling of giants, some of whom were her siblings, and running from the advances of her brothers, whose advances she found herself repulsed by, it was often that this particular sixteen-year old great granddaughter of Adam had found herself making long journeys on foot outside of the lands where her very large family resided. In fact, having the habit of wandering outside of the villages on her own since twelve years old is what had kept her virginity intact up to the present day she found herself engaged in a two-week hike to the the middle of where no one would bother her.

In the distance, high above the ground, feeling the pleasure of its experience of the day joyfully, flew Ginsheriel.

Growing weary of remote parts of the world where nature existed for its own sake, and Ginsheriel caused copious amounts of rain to fall for its, it decided to seek out the likeness-creatures of The Divine that it might stimulate its perceptions in mind as much as it had grown accustomed to stimulating its sense of body. It journeyed from a place beyond a high mountain range where it had spent much time raining upon creatures that were black and white, and very much like the animal creation known as “bear” in aspect. It was flying from this direction when it spotted below from a distance, for the first time in many decades, one of the being-likeness creatures of its master Divinity. As it detected this human being in the far away, it slowed the rate of its self pleasure so that long before she became aware of the creature flying high overhead, she was never aware of a single drop of rain between herself, the sun, and the pleasant cool breeze accompanying her on her journey this day.

As it came closer to where she was, it could see the dwelling place of most of the descendents of the original likeness-creature far in the distance. Seeing now that the likeness-creature below was a her, still many miles away from where she hiked enjoying the day, Ginsheriel slowed its self-enjoyment even further that only the lightest mist accompanied it subsequently along its journey.

And from a mile in the distance, where to her the angel looked only like a speck that was likely a large bird that would soon, but not too soon, be flying over head, the angel now could see the girl clearly; make out every detail of her form. To Ginsheriel, she was the most beautiful physical manifestation of The Image Of The Divine she had ever perceived.

Her face shone like the face of it’s brethren, but with a light in her eyes possessing a knowledge of reality it had never known; something of which only it’s Master was aware. Her body lacked the wings, but her hair hung long where otherwise it would have expected a shimmering flutter to reside. Her form was wholly inviting as though a fruit newly ripened; the breasts of it’s brother angels knew no intentions of feeding their offspring, for offspring was not intended as a function of the servants of The Divine. Ginsheriel had often wondered what the lips of it’s fellow angels would taste like, but All-Knowing-Loving-Endlessness had declared the time for such knowledge would come later, and thus that knowledge was not to be had now. All-Knowing-Loving-Endlessness had made no mention, however, of knowing the taste of a being like in certain appearances of form, but knowing polarization and some aspect of what the Divine Itself knew. And so, seeing no betrayal of command in it, Ginsheriel circled overhead for a landing.

And as she saw the “bird” clearly to become something far more spectacular than what she had thought nothing of from a distance, she was immediately awe-struck by a sight she’d never considered she could see. Sometimes diaphanous and sometimes opaque, the wings of this person pulsed with ripples rather than flaps as its feathers reflected pastels of the spectrum broken from the light of the sun. As it came closer, its face took on more a masculine semblance than not, though, apparently he had a face as beautiful as any woman, and more so even as this beauty, lightly feminine though it was, was fully the beauty of a man. Seeing his face and the stoney muscles of his abdomen made her loin quiver ever so slightly as she saw for the first time a man, though not a man, who attracted her fully; someone not born, apparently, to her family; someone more than human. Even in the air she could not see his feet, for a pair of his wings held over them. The light danced brilliantly through the very light mists that accompanied him as he made his decent toward her. Upon his landing, she had no choice but to notice the movement of the phallus it possessed, which she had known best in experience only from bathing her baby brothers, and some particularly lewd moments when her older brothers were drunk or returning from hunting, or both, interacting with the part of his body that resembled apparently what she possessed, like her sisters, which her brothers did not have. Lower inside of her she quivered a bit more as she looked on in confusion to rethink that what she had taken as being male was perhaps something other than male, or at least more than male.

Ginsheriel smiled brightly upon her as her mouth rather naturally hung open in disbelief. From several feet away, she was even more beautiful than it had perceived from a distance. From this close up, whatever it was shown bright though surrounded by mists, as the light of the sun refracted off wings and mists and smile; the light of eternity shining forth from its eyes. Ginsheriel spoke to her as for the first time in two centuries it stopped creating precipitation of any kind, “Do not be frightened. Seeing your beauty from a far distance, I wished only to know what this was causing me to know from that distance beauty the likes of which I have never known before.”

She saw clearly, as the mists quickly evaporated, that what had enabled it to create such mists now throbbed alone toward her. She had never been called beautiful before. Her brothers, when they had reached a certain age, had called her something like beautiful before trying to pounce upon her, usually while in a drunken stupor. But this was the first time something looked at her with such purity and honesty and saw of her only beauty, and then called her that by name. Her mouth continued to hang agape as her mind raced with possibilities while it stepped closer to her. It was so beautiful, and had seen her as beautiful in return. Some part of her considered running, as she did not know what would come if she didn’t turn away, but it was all so glorious and wonderful; its beauty rendered her mute and still, while the fullness of it stirred the deepest desires in her. She felt no resistance as the back of her head felt the strength and warmth of its hand, and she felt her lips pulled to its; its tongue pushed to hers.

Its wings spread wide, and then tightly around her as she gave over to the fullness, him. She felt herself lifted into the air as ecstasy proceeded to fill her in every part. And over the course of the next two months, he was her sole sustenance, and together they danced in the clouds.

.  .  .

Seven months later, long after she had wobbled her way back into the villages, and finally her parents home, her parents wondered how she could be giving birth when none of her brothers could claim her as a helper to their own house. Seven months after having been left to the ground shortly before the angel had flown off leaving behind a trail of mists in its wake, the first great warrior of renown was born to Earth.

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In the beginning . . .

Chapter 17: Part 1 + Part 2

Chapter 18

Cain knew his wife, and as she was getting to know him, she asked the obvious question, “Husband, how did you come by this scar upon your head?” She asked this one night while brushing away a bit of his hair to kiss the very spot upon his forhead.

“Camphire, if there is anyone walking the Earth who deserves to know my life, of which I am deeply ashamed before I met you, certainly it is you who deserves to know her husband with whom she creates life.” And Cain told Camphire about the murder of his brother, and his exile from his parents home. He wept in shame as he bore himself naked before his wife, “My mother’s shrillness rages through me with every passing moment of my life. Where once I sacrificed the best of my labors to Existence which created me, now it is the sound of her response to my existence which humbles me and decides every action of my hand ever more. If any part of me is good, it is that I try ever to silence in me the sound of her cries to behold what she created together with the love of my father.”

Camphire reached her hands to Cain’s face and kissed him where his head had hit rock few years prior. “As you have shown me nothing but the work of your hands to create what is useful to share with others, and the tenderness of your touch, husband, from the time you arrived, every part of you creates in this land good. That I could silence the voice within you with my kiss, I would be happy to give to my husband what he has brought unto me.”

“Camphire, my shame is the blood of my brother on my hands. All I touch is stained with his good he can never share because of me. If any good come of my hands, it is only because, even in death, his blood makes good what my touch would profane.”

“Cain, do you think you’re the first man to kill another man?”

At this question the watch by their window glanced at each other as similar thoughts entered their heads.

“But your touch is inspired by the man you wish to be, not the man that your brother might have been.”

“I did think I was the first, Cami, but if others have spilled blood as I have, even they would not take the life their mother created after them. It was my job to keep my brother from harm Cami. I would ask another to strike me down if I thought I would not then curse the life of another as I have cursed myself! No, my existence is worth only what good I can create to replace the evils of my being. It is my mother and my brother that speak through me where Cain is exiled from my mind for good!”

Camphire shed a tear to hear her husband speak so, nonetheless she knew the laws of Nod, and knew that in interest of the life now growing inside her, she would have to teach her husband Nod’s law, and recommend setting out the sooner the better.

.  .  .

Under the direction of his wife, Cain first told Growvner privately of his past. Then with Growvner and Camphire beside him, he informed Camphire’s father about how he had come to find his way through the man’s doorway so many months prior.

“She has informed me of the laws of this town, sir, and before the rest of them find out, we thought it best if we honor the laws of this town and set out as soon as we can. While you may decide not to make this news public, we cannot conceive teaching our children to lie and further insult the Existence that created us and has thus far had mercy upon my own house, though I shame myself to continue living.”

“Cain, it would be a greater shame if you left my daughter to feed her child alone, and perhaps even a greater shame to take from her the light she seems to think you have brought to her life. Of course we will help you.”

A month later, the inn-keeper, Growvner, Cain, and his wife set out a full three days journey from Nod. With them came a boy apprentice of Growvner’s to tend Cain’s fields under Cain’s driection. Growvner arranged with the boy that in exchange for his continued apprenticeship with Cain, and indefinite work with him to supply food for a new center of being existence for Cain’s family and any who enjoyed that center of existence, the boy would be given choice of one of his beautiful daughters who came of age, provided of course there be no objection from her. He further agreed that should they all object, he would honor his arrangement by finding for him a wife who would not deny him the feeling of ease that is proper to a man and woman connecting to create together further life.

Upon arriving three days journey from Nod, they set to work building a dwelling at once.

“Despite your protestations, son-in-law, this place will be a magnet for those interested in growing crops and sharing in the wisdom of a man who has known pain, and strives with himself to cause the pain he has known no more. What will you call the city you found this day?”

“Sir, you like me too much for I to be able to consider you my father. But, your daughter and I were discussing possibilities along the way. We plan on naming our child ‘Dedicated’ when it is born. It will be dedicated to understanding why the work of its hands has the power to shape the vision of the life others see, and know the weight that that power carries with it. Our city, should it become such, will therefore be named after our child and as our child. It shall be called also ‘Dedicated’ that any who enter know that we strive always with the worst of what has come before that what comes after might somehow be better, and not make said profanities ever but a curse to all who behold them.”

The inn-keeper nodded his head and smiled, “Son-in-law, despite you, I think still my daughter made a wise choice in keeping you.”

A drop of tear fell down to the smile that emitted like a beam of sun from behind a cloud toward the man that had co-created the wife Cain knew and loved.

.  .  .

The angels, aware of the plan for Cain and Camphire to move in compliance with the laws of Nod that state that murderers may visit Nod, but must live a minimum three days journey from Nod’s very outskirts, they made arrangements to find a place where they could set a new camp where they would not be seen, but could ever observe. They decided that they would claim themselves as a city made under similar circumstance as Cain if they were ever encountered, and that they would take extra pains ever to keep Gendlebleth from Cain’s sight. Likewise, they also considered appropriate measures that Casarta’s red skin would not be seen by a wayward passer by.

As the angels were passing by Nod the morning after Cain and his family had left, Casarta, cloaked in hooded garments, was having a conversation with Telnaxson, “I am so very fond of those four legged pony beasts Telly. I do wish one morning I could wake up to find one standing outside my tent, ready to be ridden over to breakfast.”

Later in the day a young girl in Nod was surprised to find a pony standing outside of her bedroom. Thinking she must still be dreaming, she got onto its back and began riding it through her house. Her parents, eating breakfast at the table, stopped and stared as a pony being ridden to breakfast suddenly vanished, and the girl fell to the ground below, crying in pain as she hit the ground.

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In the beginning . . .

Chapter 17: Part 1 . . .

What I really wanted was to end the chapter with Cain taking his wife.  Anyway, here’s the conclusion to this chapter . . .

Chapter 17: Part 2

As the first year passed, while watching the farmer ply his trade, Cain began to make suggestions to the man. At first the farmer was a bit put off that a mere apprentice would make suggestion about how to run his farm, but he was quick to consider that he did not know this boy’s full background and that he had been brought to the farm to begin with because perhaps he did in fact have some experience with raising crops. While he was not one to be disrespected in his own fields, he knew well the wisdom of listening to others whose minds had experiences, and therefore understanding, differing with his own. After seeing the probable wisdom in some of Cain’s suggestions, when the first harvest came since Cain’s arrival, he suspected it was more than mere coincidence that the yield was greater by far than he had ever seen in his life. And to his mind, the second harvest grown under Cain’s suggestions proved it.

After that first year, the farmer had a conversation with Cain. “Cain, you obviously have considerable talent when it comes to bringing life from the ground. You have a fine grasp of making tools, and you have come to know what is good here to grow with ease. If you are willing to relinquish to me half your yield for five years, and would perhaps consider to continue to throw some suggestions my way as to my own work, I’ll gladly give you, to start, three acres with which to grow your crops the coming year, and ten acres the following four to give you time to earn your own piece of land to tend. And of course I still have a trick or two to teach you, but, what do you say? Are you ready to start growing your own?”

Cain’s face suddenly came over pale, and he very noticeably hesitated before answering the farmer as he recalled his father’s words to him. The words echoing in his head ‘the ground will no longer yield its strength to you,’ Cain slowly responded. “Growvner, there is nothing more I should want in my life than that the Earth would yield to me It’s strength and Her fruits, but in my heart it is my surest belief that should I plant pomegranate, and sesame, and radish, only thistle would be yielded come harvest.”

The farmer spoke as though seeing his best friend recently drowned, “Your skills are sure as any I’ve seen. Your mind keener maybe than mine when it comes to the soil. Surely you’ll accept three acres for one year’s time that you may see the Earth bestow upon you her abundance. Be I wrong, which I cannot fathom, I’ll hold you to no harm for honoring me by an attempt.”

Cain stared straight into the eyes of his benefactor before acquiescing, “For you, who have given me food, shelter, clothing, and work as close to the Earth as I believe I am capable, I will assent to your extraordinary generosity, but understand, the soil bears no love for me though I love her from the entirety of my being. I will try for your sake, though I think the ground will not forgive me the single betrayal I unwittingly committed against her.”

Growvner smiled nervously to hear his friend speak of betrayal, and decided not to press him further that night. Though he was concerned to see the look in Cain’s eye in the shadow of the scar on his head, his heart was made gladdened that his apprentice had agreed to work a piece of his land.

.  .  .

And so, when the harvest did arrive, unlike Cain, the farmer was stunned to find that the only thing that grew on the land he had given Cain to tend was weeds.

“You have not tended this soil! Why would you not even try?”

“But Grovner, I did try. I have worked harder these past months than ever in my life, I tell you quite simply that I am cursed. Let the grooves in the ground show you my hands have labored even if the weeds do not!”

“If you had even thrown a handful of seed at the earth it would have proven more fruitful than this. You lie!”

“I do not lie! Try me one more planting season. Give me three rows of soil, just three rows next to your own land. Let me work with you as I have last year, and watch as I plant these three rows over the next several months by my own hand. Observe yourself if my methods or lacking, and watch as death rises from what I plant next to the life that rises by your hands!”

And acquiescing, several months later, indeed no food grew where Growvner had seen himself the skillful work done that should have yielded any plant at all worthy for food.

“What have you done, boy, that you are so cursed?”

“Sir, you have been fully good to me in every way, and I’d like to think that in some ways I have repaid that kindness in turn and done for you the best work I am capable of. Please, though, do not ask me to reveal to you my shame.”

The farmer paused in thought for several minutes before responding. “Kid, let’s head down to the inn and get a drink.” And the farmer never asked the question of Cain again.

.  .  .

At the inn a beautiful woman sang for the patrons of the bar. As Cain and Growvner and the inn-keeper drank together, Cain asked of the inn-keeper, “Who is this beautiful woman who sings like the bloom of the Rose of Sharon at daybreak?”

“That would be my daughter.” Responded the inn-keeper.

Cain looked the man in the eye uncertain what to say.

“Camphire, come here a moment.” The inn-keeper smiled to shout this at her as he continued to keep his gaze on Cain’s. When she walked over he introduced the two, “Camphire, this is Cain.” Cain’s face turned bright pink as he met her, but his color was hid by the darkness of the room, and his tone was bold when he said hello to the girl, and they began to talk. As they talked, Growvner took the inn-keeper aside.

“She is about the right age for marriage, and I tell you the boy is committed to his work and has a good, strong heart about him. I think he’ll be working with me for a long time, might you be interested in discussing a price by which they might continue getting to know each other for the rest of their lives?”

“You’re willing to pay for this boy to be a part of my family, Growvner?”

“I am, you wily old rascal, unless you have an objection.”

“If my daughter has no objection, than neither do I! I’ll expect to not have to worry about eating for the next several years though . . .”

“As long as you don’t mind me tasting some of the stronger results of my grapes on the house from time to time, I think we have an arrangement that will be a happiness for our town for times long to come.”

And Camphire had no objections.

Gendlebleth, watching alongside Zarnuchtron in the shadows outside of the inn, was filled with joy for the first time he could remember since arriving to existence in terms of human form. It was momentary, and quickly he began to shudder from the combination of that joy and the fact of the pain of the rest of his existence, but he was happy to see Cain on his way to having enjoyment in his life for the first time since he had been driven from his mother’s home.

.  .  .

Elsewhere, overlooking the town of Nod, Casarta was having a conversation with her mother. “Antagnous, we haven’t had meat to eat in a week. Can’t we just run one of us down to Zarnuchtron to tell him to bring some partridges to roast. Or won’t you allow me to sneak onto the farm where Cain works to steal a partridge or three for us to eat?”

“No one else of us eats as you do Casarta. I’d allow you to sneak off with a partridge as you request if not for the fact that if one of those in Nod see you with your skin, I think we will have troubles even worse than when Cain rose against his brother. If it were easier to communicate with the watchers below I’d put a word to them for your sake, but, I am confident Gendlebleth will bring us a bird in not too long a time; he’s very good about bringing you food. Meanwhile, I’ll convene a meeting about starting to raise animals up here since this hill may be our home for quite a while.”

“Antagnous, I do wish that a roast partridge were capable of materializing out of the winds themselves that my belly and tastes might be sated. Though I am grateful for the almonds and lentils I’ve had to eat this night, and know that you are right about Gendy bringing me good foods as he always does. It does seem like it would be easier for him to carry the birds, of course, if he were capable of killing them himself . . .”

Somewhere in the town of Nod a gust of wind blew past the covering of a front door as a family sat down to dinner. As that gust reached the table, the scent of a freshly roasted partridge filled the nostrils of the family looking on at the almonds and lentils they were about to eat. Before the gust passed by the table, several partridges appeared, brown and apparently moist. They stared at each other for a moment, then in unison thanked existence for the nutrition they were blessed to have upon their table, and began pass pieces of the succulent, aromatic bird around for all to share. They all thought that never had they tasted so fine a partridge, yet all noticed later that when they were done, they felt less than full; it was a feeling in their bellies as though all they’d eaten was lentils and almonds, and and only what little they’d eaten once they’d filled most of their bellies with bird at that.

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In the beginning  . . .

Chapter 15 . . . (Where last we left Cain)

This week I didn’t have quite enough time to finish writing this chapter, so, I present this chapter in two parts over the next two weeks. May it be enjoyed!

Chapter 17: Part 1

“Why would God mislead us into believing that what we saw was what is, when it was not? How is it possible there are other adam?”

“Are you accusing It of lying to us?”

“Have we had news back yet about Cain?”

“Are you now trying to evade my question? Did you just accuse God of lying to us?”

“I’m not evading you. Before attempting to answer what you just asked, I’d like to know that what I’m seeing isn’t merely a figment of my mind and that there are in fact people there, and what exactly the nature is of Cain interacting with that person. Has there been word back, or have Ternaddain and Darwith not been closer than this, and did Telnaxson and Ceaslar decide to be the first to undergo this unheard of task?”

Ternaddain spoke up, “We sent for them quickly after noticing that their smaller frames would be more helpful to observe unseen amidst so many people.”

“Then there are other people! She may not have lied to us, but why would He show us only one, then two created, and not the rest?”

Gendlebleth spoke up at this point, “We were not looking at the rest of creation that third day. Nor were we the sixth or the eighth. Our focus, though it could have been otherwise had we chosen, was only ever on the garden for we believed our focus there to be the will of What we served then exclusively. Had we chosen, which we would then not, perhaps then we would have seen the entirety of the creation of the species of animal known as humanity.”

They all nodded gravely in agreement at Gendlebleth’s recollection of what they had all experienced.

So spoke Antagnous, “If they were not there too in the garden, do we serve them as we do Cain?”

.  .  .

Shortly after arrival with the rest of the group, Ternaddain had met with Telnaxson, Ceaslar and the others minus Antagnous, Gendlebleth, Lousitous, and Casarta. While Cain still slept mid-way down the hill, she had advised Telnaxson and Ceaslar continue watch due to their size and ability to hide themselves from those they might encounter. Telnaxson and Ceaslar arrived just in time to relieve Darwith and observe Cain make his way slowly and groggely to the inn below in the town of Nod.

It was there they observed the inn-keeper feed Cain; clothe him, give him a place to rest, and converse with him about his life. Cain said merely that he was a traveler who was too ashamed of his past to speak of anything more than the joy he had once know tilling soil and harmonizing with the rising vegetation which had always sung its splendor unto him. The inn-keeper smiled as Cain spoke and responded to him, “Upon the morrow there’s a man I’d like you to meet . . .”

Before long a second watch was sent mid-way down the hill to observe movement from a distance to keep track of the first watch should Cain be moved elsewhere in this small town that was bigger than any communal construct the angels had seen before.

Before daybreak a network of six watched at various distances they deemed to be safe from being found by the other inhabitants of Nod while they continued to watch what was happening to Cain.

Cain awoke with the sun and was taken by the inn-keeper to a small farm at the outskirts of the town. Remblelok and Lajiel listened at the door to the conversation that took place there between the farmer and the inn-keeper. “This young man wandered into my inn just yesterday morning looking like he’d never seen civilization in his life. It’s not like me to give free food and lodging, but he looked like he could use a friend for a moment to help him find his way. Anyhow, when he mentioned something about taking joy in singing with food from the ground, it sounded like he might make a half-decent apprentice to you. I figure if he works out well, you’d perhaps be willing to supply me food from the ground trade-free for two planting seasons. And of course, if I have merely burdened you with an imbecile who likes to talk to plants, I’d be happy to give you free intoxication at my bar for a half of a year, and I’ll split with you whatever profit I could glean by selling him off as a slave at the season of the market two weeks past the large mountain. Win-win. What do you say?”

Upon hearing the word “slave” Remblelok and Lajiel looked at each other and shrugged. It was a word neither had heard before, and had no intuitive knowledge of as they had with the other words of Man.

The farmer replied, “A fair trade indeed. This will give him a fine way to earn his keep in Nod, and I think that we will be grateful in feeding each other in accordance with the creation this young man’s work yields for us all accordingly. Does he have a name?”

“Cain, sir.” Replied Cain.

And the farmer began to address him directly now. “And does this arrangement seem fair to you Cain, or shall we sell you to others immediately as a way to replenish the resources already expended on you by Len and the time that I could have been spending already this day in my fields?”

“The opportunity you give me to work for my pathetic existence is more than generous sir,” responded Cain.

“So it shall be, Cain. Call me Growvner. I am happy to have a new pair of hands to help me bring up the food with which I share with the town.”

And so Cain began his life with the farmer called Growvner.

.  .  .

Initially Cain was taught how to make tools for working the soil. Since the town relied greatly, in part, on Growvner’s farm for the food for the year, he was cautious not to let an apprentice actually touch seed to soil before they had been observed for a full year’s time. Cain was a quick study, however, in learning to make new tools, and cultivating fertilizer, and learning about the local fruits and vegetables that were grown in the region.

Meanwhile, as Cain studied under Growvner, the humanly-embodied angels observed not only Cain’s new life, but also the town of Nod. They studied the clothes the people wore, the foods they ate, and the way they conducted their community. They also observed when anyone from outside the town entered and left and also how they were dressed.

After a short time watching the techniques of making clothing employed by the townsfolk of Nod, and the garments warn by those apparently only passing by or through the town, the men and women angels began to make garments closely resembling those they thought would pass for an indicator that they were visitors from elsewhere looking for temporary lodging, and perhaps to briefly sell in the town their wares. Before the first year in Nod was through, four angels managed to pass unnoticed through the town to keep track of Cain while many people passed by virtually unquestioningly. Even Cain, who had ever only met Gendlebleth, never suspected the “visitors” he briefly met in passing were angels who had been observing him for as long as he had been alive.

Now watching over the boy took place in shifts of two months rather than half a day, and monitoring was establish from very close in broad daylight as well as in the shadows as well as at a long distance barely within sight. Before leaving the community so that “new visitors” could take up the watch, the angels made sure always to trade goods for raw materials with which they could make new goods for the next watch to sell when they arrived in town. The angels, in this way, became rather inventive in crafting exotic-seeming jeweleries, clothes, and tools they could trade with the town to maintain the premise that they were in fact passing through to do business. And, they pleased themselves with the notion that perhaps they were in some way making the lives of these human beings better as they introduced new objects for them to enjoy into their community.

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