Chapter 21
Deep orange sunlight turned the tops of the trees a burnished bronze. Dark clouds tricked the world into believing the night had already taken over, despite the streaks of glowing amber on the horizon. Birds flew everywhere, raucously fighting over the last of the sun’s rays. In the lounge room of our sturdy farmhouse, two Cherubim, two Guardians, one farm manager, one dispossessed Edenite, one unemployed Army Reserve officer and a Senior Police Sergeant held a team meeting.
I was bored already.
Noah pestered me with questions. Yes, I could think of plenty of places where an amulet could be hidden, but I didn’t particularly feel like searching out thousands of tree hollows. No, I was certain my mother would have mentioned it if she’d known anything. Yes, asking my mother abou
