Heather Terrell - 2 Eternity by Heather Terrell

Author:Heather Terrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty three

I thought we’d get a breather after that first night. That maybe we’d spend the next few evenings learning more about Nephilim history and the prophecy. That we’d launch into training after some rest and reflection.

After all, I had a million questions, even more than I’d already deluged Rafe with. I yearned for an understanding of how we came into being; who our birth parents were; the scope of our powers; the details of the prophecy; the nature and endgame of these fallen; how we’d find them; what they wanted from us; and, maybe most of all, what would happen if we failed. The list was endless, and the deeper I dug, the more questions I had. I longed for a tutorial at the feet of an angel, and I prayed I’d get one.

I didn’t. There were no academic lectures on Rafe’s agenda on Saturday and Sunday nights. There were no elaborate speeches scheduled for the late night hours. There was only grueling physical instruction torture, actually. Apparently, Michael and I needed to hone our bodily skills more than we needed to sharpen our angelic knowledge. Me especially.

“Up,” Rafe barked at us on Sunday night, after watching Michael and me race around the field and perform all sorts of exercises for nearly an hour.

Michael and I glanced at each other in confusion, and then back at Rafe. “We’re already up.”

“Not in the air, you’re not.”

Up Rafe flew, and up we went. As we penetrated the lower cloud cover, Rafe yelled out the names of the specific cloud types. He pointed out how the different layers felt on our skin and hair and arms, and showed us how to use that knowledge to gauge the weather and alter our speed accordingly. He also demonstrated how we could use those same clouds as camouflage in the sky. His instruction reminded me of a passage from the Book of Enoch where the humans first learned His mysteries at the behest of an angel.

As we rushed through the last cloud layer straight into the upper atmosphere, Rafe shouted back at us, “The fallen are stronger than you, so you’ll have to use all the nuances of your natures to outmaneuver them. No offense, Ellspeth, but you’ll never outrun them on the ground. You’re too slow and too” I could almost hear Rafe suppress a laugh “too intellectual.”

Knowing full well that Rafe actually meant clumsy, I retorted, “Are you sure you’d like me to be the Elect One?”

“He chose you, Ellspeth. Not me,” he answered with that old, impish grin.

That shut me up. I hadn’t given much thought to being handpicked by Him. Why He picked me immediately became the number one question on my growing list.

I heard Rafe’s voice through the wind whipping by my ears. “We’ll have to practice in the skies, where we might get you an advantage. Michael, since I need you by Ellspeth’s side, you’ll have to be airborne as well.”

Rafe instructed us to stay in the air above the ring of fir trees, to hide the use of our powers.

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