but which no one seems to notice," he replied. "Are you a human shapeshifting into animals, or is the woman simply another of your forms?"

She tilted her head. When he did not continue, she asked, "What is the answer?"

"I am not the one to tell you." The Messenger gave her a long look. "You will ask it now, and when you hear the right answer, you will know that it is right, and why it is right. And then you will understand what I am, and what you are, and you will understand the scope of what lies beyond and around you."

She searched for words again, but before she could speak, the archangel was gone, and the room eased back into its normal tempo.

The grave look that had accompanied Winters' last statement, regarding Jamison's safety, r...

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