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Lukas could not fully comprehend the graciousness of his new host, leaving him skeptical and a little wary of the man. His three guides had led him into Cephas’s home—a small apartment half underground with low ceilings and gray, stuccoed walls riddled with cracks. The inside of the man’s dwelling boasted very little of the flashing, scrolling holographic surfaces found in the city streets and Lukas found his mind finally able to settle into a semblance of peace.
Yaakov and Yohanan apparently knew their way around Cephas’s home intimately; while Cephas heated some food Lukas did not recognize over the small, two-burner stove placed against the far wall of the main room, the brothers stepped off together into a side room and returned with a small metal box and a metal bowl of slightly w
