Chapter 9
Now upon the first day of the week…
They found the stone
Rolled away from the sepulcher.
And they entered in, and found not the body…
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St. Luke 24:2-3
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Earth: Sunday, April 5, 33 AD
Jerusalem (three days later)
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Azrael dragged the squirming wraith he’d just pried out of the mortal shell of a Roman soldier into the processing room. The underground cavern was not much to look, far too functional to be a real throne room, but just a bit too garish with the raised dais at its center where normally sat the self-proclaimed Emperor of Earth. At the moment, the 'throne' was empty.
“Where is he?” Azrael scowled at Lucifer’s second-in-command, another henchman in a long line of nameless, faceless part-Sata’anic lizard/part-human scum who leaped at Lucifer’s beck and call. De
