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letters. Its large brown eyes were wide and looked almost
fearful. It eyed her strangely, like it was looking at a
ghost.
    Initially, Kara didn’t
think anything of it. She was used to elevator operators with an
attitude. But there was something different about the way this one was
looking at her. It looked frightened.
    “ What?” said Kara
defiantly after she couldn’t take his staring any
longer.
    “ What now? I just got
here, you know. Can’t you give me a moment’s peace before you start
your monkeyshines? Don’t you know it’s impolite to
stare?”
    She shook her head. “Never mind that,
just tell me why you’re looking at me like you’ve never seen a
guardian angel?”
    Chimp 6L75 looked away quickly and
began whistling nervously. It was as though he pretended not to
have heard her, which was very unusual. She knew that the elevator
operators in Horizon always enjoyed tormenting their passengers.
But this operator was behaving very peculiarly.
    Kara frowned and leaned forward. “Did
I miss something while I was away? Excuse me, Chimp 6L75? Did you
hear me? Hello?”
    The primate continued to whistle,
ignoring her completely.
    “ Have the operators turned
deaf while I was gone?”
    She leaned her head against the panel.
She wasn’t going to let an uncommunicative elevator operator ruin
her first day back. She hoped David was back, too. It just wouldn’t
be the same without him.
    She was about to reprimand the primate
for being rude when she noticed that the third button on the
elevator control panel was illuminated.
    She stepped forward for a closer look.
The brass button with the number 3 was indeed illuminated and
operational. They were ascending to level three, the Miracles
Division.
    “ Excuse me, why are we
going to level three? Shouldn’t you be dropping me off to level
five—”
    Kara stopped. Since she didn’t have
her elemental powers, maybe she wasn’t in the Counter Demon
Division any longer. It stung a little, not to be part of the elite
group. Perhaps she should go to level two, Operations. It was the
only other option.
    “ I think you pressed the
wrong button,” began Kara. She was doing her best to be polite
since this creature seemed to be frightened of her, but she still
couldn’t fathom why.
    “ If not five, then I’m
pretty sure I should to be going to level two. Yup. Level two it
is. Go on now, please press level two.”
    The operator ignored her.
    Kara’s temper flared. “Fine. Keep
pretending that I don’t exist.”
    She leaned forward. “I’ll do it
myself—”
    The operator flung itself at the panel
and covered it with its body. It turned its head slightly, but it
wasn’t angry. It looked frightened.
    For a moment Kara was lost
for words. It was behaving so strangely, so out of character for an
operator. It didn’t make any sense. What was wrong? Was it sick?
Could they even get sick? The way the chimpanzee avoided her eyes and stole a
look when it thought she wasn’t looking made it clear that it was
afraid of her .
    She cleared her throat and tried to
control the panic in her voice.
    “ What is it you’re not
telling me? I can see it in your eyes. You’re hiding something.
Come on…spit it out.”
    Wide-eyed and shaking its head, Chimp
6L75 raised a single, long finger and pointed at her. “Look.
Something’s wrong with you. You’re not a normal angel.”
    “ What?” Kara almost
laughed. She was used to being called not
normal . But when she looked down at
herself, her knees buckled, and she fell against the back
panel.
    She was semi-transparent, like a
ghost.
    Her clothes were see-through, like
tissue paper. They looked as if they would tear and break with a
touch. Her angel essence shone through her thin, brittle skin so
that she radiated light. But it was as though half of her essence
hadn’t appeared with the rest of her in the elevator. Part of her
being was lost, and she had become a specter. When she tried to
remember the moments before she