Chapter 24

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24 Salisbury, England. Morgan and Jake walked down the path through the expansive green lawn around Salisbury Cathedral. The tallest spire in Britain towered over the town, and Morgan looked up as they approached. "It was built in the thirteenth century to the glory of God," she said quietly, "but there are a lot of interesting things about this place." "Stonehenge is only up the road a little way, isn't it?" The prehistoric standing stones were thirteen kilometers north, constructed over 4000 years ago as a pagan worship site aligned with the sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice. Like the Egyptian temples, light would strike a particular stone on a particular day, evidence of the continuation of the gods' pact with mankind. Morgan realized that Jake w

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