Chapter 18 Hot, noisy and uncomfortable. And that was just the economy flight. The sun in Jerusalem scorched the sky, reflecting in a blinding glare off buildings of white and yellowed stones. It was true desert – dusty and dry. The kind of heat that licked the sweat from your skin before you even had a chance to realize you were dehydrating. People said Los Angeles was hot. I thought they needed to travel a bit, explore Arizona, check out Israel. Then they’d understand true, blistering heat. We were met at the airport by a car from the local Gregor chapter. They didn’t know why we were here, exactly, but that was the brilliant thing about being a starseed – the Gregors were always there to help you. So here we were, with full clearance thanks to Tag and Ethan’s connections, four new

