The holy resolve on his face, and a glistening, finely honed sword deterred her from saying or doing anything. “Yes. We’ll cooperate, Gabriel.”
“I told you this might not be a good idea. Now we’ll both be heavily exposed to The Light.”
“I didn’t know we’d be ambushed,” she said, her voice sad and apologetic. Looking to Evie, she said, “Well, I guess you must pray for Sam and I, so let’s get this thing done and over with.”
Evie smiled at her and Snakebite. “By the way, I know that your friend is a dark angel like you are, so this is even more exciting.” Turning to the fellow attenders of the meeting, she said, “Okay, brothers and sisters of the faith, let’s pray.”
The prayers seemed to open up the Holy Heavens, and slowly but surely, The Light filled the room, and weighed heavily on her and Snakebite. The congregants all shouted for joy at the faithfulness of their Lord, while she shook uncontrollably. Holding her hands to her chest, she said, “I feel the heaviness of The Light upon me…” and fell to the floor, slain in the spirit by the Holiest Spirit. Snakebite followed her a few moments later. Shame for all her evil deeds weighed heavily upon her until she broke down and cried.
“Please, Lord Yehovah and Lamb of God. Have mercy on me because I’m evil. Shed your love upon me, and save me from myself and my evil ways.”
A moment later, Light, soft and gentle, but powerful, floated down from the Heavens and surrounded her and Snakebite. Her tears increased as she cried out, “Lord Yehovah, you are good, and your mercies endure forever.”
When the prayers ended, and the soft glow of the Holy Light lifted gently from her. She got up, ran over to Evie and hugged her with all her might.
“Evie. A lot of evil that dwelled in my heart has left me. Is it possible that one like me can pray to Lord Yehovah?”
“Please do,” Evie answered. “You don’t have to sound eloquent; He will listen to the prayer of a contrite and humble heart.”
Still sobbing, she choked out, “Lord Yehovah. Please cleanse my heart of its evil ways, and show me how to please you, because I’m lost.” She could say no more, because a bittersweet sadness filled her, and she lost the battle with the tears, and sobbed, unable to do anything else.
Evie looked at Snakebite, and said, “Sam: is there anything you want to say to Lord Yehovah?”
Snakebite looked sheepishly at Poisonous, and uttered his own humble prayer to the Lord of Heaven and Earth. “Please forgive me, Lord Yehovah. I have done evil ever since Lucifer rebelled, and I followed him. I need to change my ways, and I need your help.”
The group surrounded Poisonous and Snakebite, and laid hands on them.
“Lord, lead them to your truth,” Evie prayed.
The other all uttered their collective ‘Amen.’
Poisonous looked at Snakebite and said, “True friend of mine: I need to stay here, and do some serious soul searching. You understand, don’t you?”
“Yes, I do. I need to do the same.” Snakebite looked at all gathered and said, “Please pray for my protection. I know the Enemy of all human souls does not like these developments.”
“We will,” said Evie. “We have been all along. The Holy Spirit told us you and Perri would be coming here, and that you were to be broken.” Looking up towards Heaven and lifting her hands, she said, “Blessed be your name, my Lord. You are faithful to see righteousness accomplished.”
“Thank you Evie,” Snakebite managed.
He turned towards her and hugged her. “May Lord Yehovah protect you.”
She hugged him back with all her might, and shook with tears. “Thank you, my love. May Lord Yehovah watch over us both.”
Eighteen
Thursday, September 25th
Dan Hightower reviewed that surveillance tapes again, and sure enough, there she was again, seen exiting from the Metro View Condo complex. All the videos he examined confirmed that she must live there. The time for action was now. Armed with the certainty of his information, he called up Barb Haywood.
“Haywood.”
“Barb. I’m sure we have found our person of interest in all the disappearances, and murders. We have ascertained her residence to be in the Metro View Condominiums, and we need to send out some sort of SWAT team to see if we can’t reign her in.”
“That’s good news, Dan. However, we must be careful, because this perp seems to have the ability to control people’s minds. No sooner than they spot her, they forget they ever saw her.”
“Yes, I know,” he said. “She seems to have some unusual abilities. I swear in one of the videos concerning Frank Migliaccio, he and his henchmen completely disappeared after she stuck her fingernails into their collective necks. This woman is very dangerous.”
“I’ll tell you what,” Barb said, “I’ll have my Sergeant assemble a SWAT team, and they’ll surround her, but not get near her, and see if they can’t convince her to come down for questioning.”
“Good luck,” he said.
Barbara called Sergeant Herb Chambers to her office.
“What’s up, ma’am?”
“Herb, I need to you assemble a special SWAT team to go after this Asian woman with the ability to do strange things. She has been seen controlling the thoughts of her victims, or making them disappear, clean from sight. You need to surround her, and convince her to come down here to headquarters, and maybe we can get some information out of her. But, I reiterate, she is very dangerous, so use extreme caution.”
“I follow, ma’am.”
Since it was early in the morning, many commuters walked the streets, heading toward their places of work. Dawn had just broken, and reddish gray hues of the early morning hours painted
