Chapter Thirteen
Eden glided into the room, her feet bare like the rest of her. Behind her, Michael stood at her right hand and Gabriel at her left. Both males looked impassive as they came into the room. Neither made eye contact with the room’s inhabitants.
Eden looked around the room, her head slanting to the left and then to the right as she regarded each one of us in turn. Finally, she found Loren.
Loren stood beside me. Tres had an arm outstretched, as though ready to block Eden’s assault or Loren’s charge. I’m not quite sure which he anticipated.
“I’m told that what you did could be interpreted as brave,” Eden began, her address aimed solely at Loren. “Breaking into a forbidden realm, stealing a deity’s prized possession, incurring the wrath of his warrior daughters, and then try
