Conversation

“Please touch the staff, sir, it’s cold as the dickens. It reflects no light or heat at all, just like the needlegates, or my mother's jar. Only Ayat herself or maybe Avyah could make something like this. That's why Bath Kol says it's a Class One artifact.”

"Give it to me, boy."

Alfred Shoenherr set down the cardboard box he was carrying. Warner touched the end of Windgate to the box but nothing happened. He flipped the staff around and tried the other end. Nothing.

"How does it work, boy?"

"Ayat and Davar work it together. All we need to do is wave it around. That's the whole point of the Last Rite, sir, didn't you know? We come together in a time of sorrow and see visible proof God is still active and present with us."

"Prove it, boy. Get rid of this box."

“What’s inside, sir?”

“Old clothes and shoes. Never mind what’s in there, boy! Just make it disappear using your alleged Class One artifact.”

Warner and Shoenherr were startled by the sudden noise as Nico lapped the box into nothingness. #QK