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"For centuries this tablet was carried about on Earth inside a chest of wood. Once a year Bat-El would speak with the high priest through the slab. Now the chest has been taken here to Kemen to keep it safe from invading armies, but the temple in Adjara is far from complete. A man named Lael of the tribe of Levi is the high priest now, milord, and he wanders Haaretz with the chest and the tablet. Lael bore also the Golden Gift and he rendered it to me after I sought him out, for such was Bat-El's verbal command to him, again through the black tablet. Lael was expecting me to come."

"So the Golden Gift was put in your hand by this Lael," said Belphegor, "and the tablet was nigh, yet you made no move to destroy the relic as you did Lilith's headband just now."

"Milord, had I made the slightest move in the direction of the ark Lael's archers would have shot me."

"In any event you would have wasted your time even as you are now wasting mine. It is a small thing for Bat-El to construct another object and link to it."

"Your pardon Lord Belphegor, but I see you are unaware of a critical thing that we B'nei Elohim have long known. Frequently Bat-El sends us east of the Wall of God where he and Binah are forbidden to open a fold-door, and we have begged to use an avatar as Michael was wont to do in the times of old. But that one was destroyed by dragonfire, and Bat-El says he cannot make another."

Belphegor searched his memory and realized that Bat-El, in fact, had not plagued Kemen with an avatar since the days of the dragon. He found it puzzling that he had never focused on that before, and wondered what scheme Bat-El might be carrying out in his full view, as yet unnoticed by either himself or Elyon. He demanded of Jashen, "Does Elyon explain why he can make no more avatars?"

"Milord, he has said avatars must be made in a non-living portion of a sun that an eloah can nevertheless safely reach. And only a female can compress herself to create such a free space. It goes without saying that Bat-El is now male."

"But Binah is female,' Belphegor replied. "Nothing prevents her from creating an object that can survive a plunge into a sun, and – hold! I see this is all a feint! Binah has no covenant with Keter. It is she who will send an avatar to another star and break the interdict!"