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When Lael's group were transplanted to Kemen the eloah Elyon was known as Kokabiel and Chemah was incarnated as Belphegor. After Belphegor came to Adjara by fold-door it took nearly an hour for his servant Malphas to locate him.

Belphegor crinkled his nose at the usual open sewage of human cities but after a time it was bearable. Hy amused himself watching construction of Bat-El's temple. Belphegor knew the Levites and Issacharites of the city were attempting to build a copy of the Jerusalem temple. From the progress they had made and the techniques of construction they were using, he estimated it would take at least a century more to complete.

Malphas found him watching a stone block weighing at least a ton being hoisted into position with the nearly imperceptible pace and inevitability of a glacier moving an erratic. He sank to one knee and said, 'My lord, the villa of the B'nei Elohim is near to this place.'

Belphegor motioned for his servant to rise, and asked of him, "the B'nei Elohim, are they to be trusted?"

"The ones at the villa are human," Malphas warned, "but they claim to be servants of all elohim, not merely Bat-El alone. The one named Jashen claims to be the herald of Bat-El and he assures me he will not waste your time."

Belphegor thought it augured well when the four B'nei Elohim waiting outside the house paid perfect obeisance as was due a seraph without even the requirement of being announced to them. When hy beheld the one who identified himself as Jashen hy saw his features called back to those of the original colonists brought to Adan from Earth.

Indoors Belphegor was treated with more decadent luxury than hy experienced even in Rumbek at the heart of his Larund realm. The wine was cold, the roast beef was hot, and the furnishings were of such fine make hy said to Jashen, "I had not thought such wealth existed in Adjara."

"Lord Belphegor, on Earth the lowliest among the B'nei Elohim enjoy better, yet it is not thought to be great wealth. It is only with long labor that we have made this place acceptable for us to dwell in Haaretz as we are accustomed. Yet we are only wayfarers in Kemen."

"And what are the B'nei Elohim that you become wayfarers in Kemen?" demanded Belphegor.