Chapter 17
Josiah had been missing for two weeks. Search parties had been sent in every direction, to no avail. It seemed as though he had vanished from the earth. Annie, of course, was devastated. So was Sarahi. The Succubus was wracked with guilt, convinced her interference that driven him away, and certain his desertion would spell certain doom for the clerics and the Nephilim.
They had requested reinforcements from Europe and Africa but had been refused. Both continents were rife with Succubi and could not spare a single warrior. Australia sent a few, and so did Asia, but the added troops only swelled the number of total angelic warriors from two to three hundred Nephilim, with an equal number of trained clerics. At last count, there were over two thousand Succubi active in North Am
