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After he showed them all the impossible things that were in fact the truth and the world to come, Jesse left them. No one thought it cruel or abrupt, because he’d left them with so much more than any of them could have dared hope to receive. There were no tears of farewell—no regrets or mourning. They’d spent that already over the last three days, and now they only had room in their hearts and their thoughts for the expanse of infinite knowledge Jesse had shared. It was his final gift to them, at least until the Paraclete, the Spirit of Fire would come.
Those gathered in Cephas’s house had sat in silence with each other, with their shared experience, with the brilliance of Jesse’s revelation burning within them. They knew what they had to do, as it had been written before they’d been
