5B

5B

The body of Marsayas and two of the len in his party fairly bristled with arrows. Jemima, Keturah, and Susanna slipped daggers between the ribs of the angelic strangers to finish them. Atara, Keziah, Dinah, and Leah then dragged the three angels to one edge of the plateau where the men tending the flocks of animals helped cast them over the side, still living or no they cared not.

Belphegor saw that Marsayas had failed him and that he had ran out of time. The fold-door, which always resembled a glass or crystal ball taller than a man owing to the way it bent light, snapped out of existence. Belphegor's first attempt to seize the Ark had failed, and the Laelites knew the Ark was a prize much sought by none less than a seraph.

A grieving Sariah sought to revive her husband, but his life had already slipped away. She held his body throughout the night and when the white sun became visible over the rim of the Wall of God the sons of Lael buried him where they had made camp.

By that evening the shock of what had happened to them faded. None of the Brown Beards, if any had survived, crawled up to the plateau to renew their attack. So the three sons of Lael began to dispute which one of they would take up Lael's office of high priest and chief.

Jemuel sank to his knees and said, "O living God of Abraham and Yishak and Yakob, if you will, make known what man of us shall be high priest and hear your voice on the Day of Atonement."

When there was no answer Elam moved to remove the cover of the Ark of the Covenant with his bare hands, but he was knocked to the ground as though by lighting. Jemuel made no move to repeat the error. But when Rosh touched the Ark Bat-El did not smite him, so Jemuel considered his petition to be suitably answered.

Then Rosh took the White Scroll and found the place where his father Lael had added his own words to the words recorded by Leliel, the daughter of Michael and Lilith. And Leliel had written upon the scroll in characters unknown to Rosh, but the husband of Leliel, Jashen, had copied the words of his wife as Hebrew that Lael might understand them. This same Jashen had been seen by all of them, and he figured throughout the White Scroll. Rosh marveled that he never died.

Lael had added his account of bringing a remnant of the southern tribes to Keman, and daily he had inscribed their journeys in Kemen as though the scroll were a journal.