Chapter ThirteenSHEKINAH
“What's Shekinah?” Drake asked when he first got to Paradise. A knife jutted from his chest. The ghost of a Norton motorcycle purred between his thighs.
“The divine principle of light, love, and grace,” a Seraphim replied.
“What do they have to do with me? And why am I here? I tried to stab the cop. I fell on the knife. Did she blow me away?”
“You'll know all in time.”
“Where am I?”
“You ask too many questions, demon of the west. The west is the region of the Archangel Raphael, the healer, the harbinger of death and rebirth. You'll get to know him.”
Raphael's influence most truly personified the Medicine Wheel, or the Wheel of Life.
“Light and laughter are represented by the four Archangels who dart, with their winglike energy fields, to various nations or
