Subj: DS:Goddess 11
Date: 5/6/02 4:31:01 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Aesgaard

Angelique was stunned to discover that even the immortals believed in God. Thor admitted to have being Christianized by King Arthur. He had even gone on to remark that Apollo, Brigid, Hermes and many of the former gods had bowed to the greater power by admitting that Jesus Christ was the son of a higher guiding force for good. It made sense to her as she sat in their church. They lived on earth in ancient times and pretended to be mortal, but then using their powers to teach and school ancient man, they became worshipped as deities they never wanted to be. Such a power over immortals caused many of then to become corrupted. Polytheism was an accident. Apparently the immortals knew there was one true God all along. The Norse called him Gimle and the Olympians called him Infinity. The Mesopotamians knew him as Yahweh, but then they had finally come to acknowledge that the Jewish faith had been born from their pagan worship. Her thoughts drifted back to her children and Barnabus. She wished she could contact them as she found herself praying to God for the first time in her life.

"Mommy !" She heard William's voice !

Spinning around, she half-heartedly expected to see Barnabus, William and Sara run to meet her, but this Asgardian church was empty.

"Mommy !"

"Sara !" She ran from where she was told to stay. The voices were coming from somewhere and they were real ! She rushed across a great hall, lifting her long skirt to keep from tripping on it.

"Mommy ! Help us !"

Their tiny screams were coming from behind the wall ! Touching it, she felt the heat wafting up from one of the underworlds. Ares had done it ! He had committed her children to the underworld ! "I'm coming babies !!" she pounded at the wall as it gave way.Opening up, she started to stumble forward to the floorless pit.

"Angelique ! Don't go ! It's a trick !" Thor saw her and rushed to grab her, but it was too late. The lovely sorceress his mother once asked him protect was falling to the underworld !

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