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"Warmth caressed my soul."
    She rolled her eyes. "Could you explain the sensation in more specific terms, please?" she said.
    He looked at her. "It was wonderful. What else do I need to say?"
    "Did it happen suddenly or gradually?"
    "It caught me by surprise. I was transported to a higher plane."
    "Did the angels communicate with you?" Marina said in an impatient tone.
    "Their beauty was communication enough. They showed me there is light and peace after death."
    She didn't have a strong opinion about the afterlife. God had never spoken about it to her, and it probably wasn't any of her business. Strictly speaking, she didn't have much faith either. Faith was belief without proof, and she had ample proof of the Lord's existence. Every time she felt any doubt, she just needed to look at her own fingernails. She sometimes wondered what it was like to be inspired by religion. Her outlook was far more cynical.
    "How do you know they were real?" Marina said.
    "I saw them with my own eyes," the witness said.
    "It could've been a hologram or a projection."
    "No. I would've known if they were fake."
    Not likely, she thought.
    Hanley and Katie were standing behind Marina. She turned to her legionnaires and said, "Let's go."
    The three of them walked off. It was a long way back to the car.

Chapter Three
    Yang looked across the kitchen table at Olivia. The child's beauty was hypnotic. It was like staring at a real angel.
    "You have to make the denominators the same before you can add the numerators," he said. "Multiply the one on the left by three. Top and bottom."
    She gnawed her lip as she stared at a piece of paper in front of her. It was covered with math problems. "Why both?"
    Yang turned to Jia whose beauty was almost as magnificent. He loved her with a passion he had never felt for another woman. Like him, she was a Chinese immigrant. Long, black hair framed a cute face with a turned-up nose. Her body was so slender and petit, he could carry her easily in his arms. She looked quite a bit younger than she actually was. Her smile showed off perfect, white teeth. She was wearing a yellow dress covered with pink hearts.
    "So you don't change the value of the fraction," Jia said in a polite voice. "You're making both parts bigger. For example, one goes into three the same way three goes into nine. It's all about proportions."
    "Oh," Olivia said.
    She began to write with a pencil even though she still seemed uncertain.
    Yang and Jia had taken control of Olivia's academic education. Nobody else on the team had jumped at the job even though they were certainly qualified, but Yang didn't mind. The three of them were like a little family, and he was thoroughly enjoying the experience. For the first time in many years, he felt loved and appreciated.
    He looked at Olivia's black and white eyes. They were unsettling, but they were just an indication of the powerful gift inside her. She could control the emotions of others by touching their heads. He had never seen her abuse her power, but she was just nine years-old. Children that age were expected to throw temper-tantrums, and in her case, she could cause serious harm. He was always wary around her.
    Marina, Hanley, and Katie entered headquarters. They were dressed as federal agents, and the disguise looked natural on them. Only Marina's pointed black fingernails seemed out of place.
    The commander walked over to Yang. She had strawberry blond hair which she kept professionally short. Freckles on her pale face gave her a mischievous appearance, and one might mistakenly think she was a fun person to hang out with. Unusual green eyes were her most striking feature. She was medium height, slim, and very athletic.
    Yang would be the first to admit Marina frightened him. She wasn't just an impossibly skilled martial artist with the reflexes of a cobra, and the best knife fighter he had ever seen. She had a capacity for creative mayhem that was inhuman. She was a living weapon crafted by God to