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"No, you don't," said God sadly and gently He reached out and He touched Mery hand vanished off the angelic skin God Incarnate leant forward and kissed Memnoch on the mouth

"I love you, ood that Isouls to me You are only part of the cycle, part of Nature, as wondrous as a bolt of lightning or the eruption of a great volcano, as a star exploding suddenly, alaxies so that thousands of years pass before those on earth see its light "

"You're a ive an inch "I shall teach theive you what you are¡ªMajestic, Infinitely Creative, and Imperfect "

God Incarnate laughed softly and kissed Meain on the forehead

"I am a wise God and a patient God," He said "I am the One who made you "

The ies vanished They did not even fade They simply disappeared

I lay on the battlefield alone

The stench was a layer of gases hanging overevery breath I drew

For as far as I could see were dead men

A noise startled ure of a wolf drew near todown on me with its lowered head I stiffened I saw its narrow uptilted eyes as it pushed its snout arrogantly at me I smelt its hot, rank breath I turned my face away I heard it sniff at rowl coht hand in my coat, I felt the veil

Its teeth grazed my neck Instantly, I turned, rose and knocked the wolf backwards, and sent it tu away from me Off it ran over the bodies of the dead

I took a deep breath I realized the sky overhead was the daytime sky of Earth and I looked at the white clouds, the simple white clouds and the dim faraway horizon beneath thenats and the flies rising and swirling here and there over the bodies¡ªand the big huh the feast

Fro

But the sky was nificently clear The clouds moved so that they released the sun in all its power, and down caaseous and exploding bodies around me

I think I must have lost consciousness I wanted to I wanted to fall backwards again on the earth and roll over and lie with ainst it, and slip my hand into my coat and feel that the veil was there