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"Baptized in a river when I was a teenager I go to church most Sundays My favorite Bible verse is ‘Jesus wept’"
"Because it’s the shortest?" He almost smiled
"No Because it says that Jesus knehat it rieve He’d just let his best friend in the world die of illness when he could have gotten there in ti he was between a rock and hard place, and the hard place let his friend die He grieved Then, when he could, he went and raised his friend frorave, and he knew that if he did that, he’d die himself"
"That is a very complicated scenario" His smile ider now, and his shoulders had relaxed "And do you pray?"
Thisme questions, and one did not lie to an elder I blew out a breath and tried to find an answer to his question "I think about God I confess A lot But at the saed, uncoot on my knees"
"I have never met a Christian warrior such as yourself"
I opened my mouth and closed it I had no idea what to say about that and no desire to debate it either "Here’s the deal," I said "I want to use the church’s baptismal water to flush out the vaht froames But it isn’t like I can steal the water"
"And you want ed and settled on, "People of all faiths are responsible to help the weak, the downtrodden, the sick, and the helpless, especially children And of all the religions in the world, Christians are the only ones that are coay people, ethnicities different froifts they were born with, power they were born with, genetic mutations they were born with, illnesses of the brain and body I’ve got a little girl’s onna make it possible for me to save her?"
Herman Hosenfeld’s face wrinkled up in a smile "Of course Hoe do it?"
"We?" My voice squeaked just a tad on the word
"Of course I’ll be there for prayer support, and"--he held up a hand to stop my reply--"I promise to stay out of your way There are no other options, young lady I have a daughter who is a lesbian and married to her witch partner for the past fifteen years My wife and I lost her years ago through er so foolish to think God sees her lifestyle with greater ire than he does , and I a"
"You are a surprise inin front of an eain, spats of sprinkles hitting the windshield, h the Earth’s tears Eli opened the driver’s door and clihtly damp, and his hands were eed But without a better idea of the cubic feet of space--"
"I know," I interrupted "I understand" There hadn’t been time to do the necessary research, even for whizzes like the Kid and Bodat We had no floor plans or maps of the lair under the house Most i H was still in his Clan hoiven hiue vaccine at dawn and he would have been too tired the following night to move to another location Guesswork and assumptions Crap Eli tilted his neck to the side and his cervical spine ?" I asked over my shoulder
The Kid and Bodat were in the backseat of the SUV, coency responsiveness to the weather, and keeping eyes on the inside of the house ere about to attack "Piece of cake once we drilled into Big H’s security system," Bodat said "The vamp has cameras all over the place"
Excitement sparked downin so many ways--not least thatand the pendant was so else
Or that the holy water wouldn’t work I rearranged the vials of holy water attached to lass, so I didn’t risk the But it still sloshed I had never carried so ain It was a US ht, six-shot, 40-renade launcher or a riot gun It was loaded with six rounds of rubber bullets and, while it was a pain in the butt to reload, it gavemy promise to Soul to not kill humans I adjusted the military combat helmet with ear protectors and the built-in com unit It felt weird on my head
"We are live," the Kid said into the headset he wore "Flash headlights if you can hear hts flashed behind us Eli and I raised our hands, thumbs up
"The security system is in my hands," the Kid said, his voice all business