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"We call ourselves the Watchers. Elyon and Belial call angels and men their servants, but I call you the Students. Contrary to your scriptures I did not make your kind, I found your ancestors living in another world than this. It was the most important discovery we Watchers have ever made. World-dwellers are fully awake, even as the Elohim are, and for this reason Elyon and Chemah fear you. From the beginning they have contrived to see you destroyed. Your very existence, if revealed to other elohim, will uncover their hidden transgressions. However they cannot stay me from sharing with you everything the elohim know.

"But how shall I do it, Michael? Shall I lecture you and hope we understand one another? I have found another way, but it will require your cooperation. I am not like my father Elyon. I would not force you to accept the changes required.

"Your identity as Michael will not change, but my memories as an eloah will be added to your memories, and your memories as a young angel will be added to mine. My will shall be manifest in your mind always. You will become my living avatar, yet you will remain free to act. In that way you would ratify our joining from moment to moment. But you must know beforehand the physical changes cannot be undone for so long as you live."

Michael said he was curious about the proposed changes. Bat-El touched a hand to Michael's temple and said, "You mind is like a cup that you filled with wine during your brief life. The new cup will have a greater capacity, but the wine of your memories will remain the same. Even when the cup is gone that wine will remain, but not forever. Elohim have finite lifespans like other living things. But that is so much longer than the span of an angel that I cannot adequately express it to you. Your culture never pondered such magnitudes."

Michael stood up from hyz cushion to stare at the volcano while he weighed the words of Bat-El. Then hy asked, "Following these changes you propose to make in me, will I look very different?"

"Not very different. Most of the changes will be inside you, Michael, and there will be only small changes otherwise. You will have two small white horns as a visible mark to set you apart from the other elyonim."

He returned to kneel before the avatar Bat-El and said, "O Great one, let it come to be as you say, this union of elohim and angel. I am willing, yet not so that I may push my own end out to a time beyond all reckoning. Let us join so that together we will both come to know many new things."