“You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.”

“You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.”

“The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.”