Chapter 21
Dinah signaled so that Jael and Charmine stayed behind her. A short distance ahead was a stone cave wrapped by two gigantic stone angel wings.
“Why would someone want to live in a place like that?” Dinah asked.
“Asana always wanted to be an angel,” Jael said. “When we jumped the light hundreds of years ago, he pushed me through the light because he thought I had the best chance to become one.”
“That was his version of the story,” Charmine said. “My version was that he wasn’t good enough to be an angel. Or he wasn’t game enough to jump the light, so he pushed you through.”
Dinah chuckled and said nothing.
Jael continued, “He used to be a good man. But he was blinded by power and poisoned by Arete.”
“I would call that greed, Father.” The sound of the word father rolling off
