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Tabriz, IranThe taxi sped past the industrial outskirts of the city, and as dusk fell, Morgan thought about the last time she and Jake were in Tabriz together. They had found the Pentecost stone of Thaddeus the Apostle in the church of St Mary, considered by some to be the second oldest church in the world after Bethlehem in Israel.
Although their mission was successful, they had not left the chapel quietly. ARKANE cleaned up after their agents and smoothed a path with diplomatic relationships maintained over centuries, but it was possible that her face and Jake’s were on some Iranian hit list. Given her Israeli heritage, Morgan did not want to end up in prison here. The possibility made her more nervous than usual, but their passports were clean and they were officially here to hike
