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  • CA: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 1, September 7, 1950: Cold Open EXT. CHARRED GROUND – DAY Embers glow red across the scorched ground, smoking beneath the massive bulk of the HUSK OF AYAT. The central structure rests heavily on five gimbaled thrusters. A hatch drops open on the underside. SAR LAILAH drops to the ashen ground. Her attendant, BODEA, hands down heavy canvas bags of comestibles and a light, narrow WATERCRAFT. Bodea leaps down to join her. LAILAH We need to get much further away. You are valiant, Bodea, but I doubt you should wish to be burned. Bodea nods. Grabbing the ropes, the two Shalemites drag the watercraft and their supplies away from the ship. EXT. LAKE EDGE – CONTINUOUS They reach the lapping water of a dark lake. Behind them, a deafening ROAR shatters the silence. The Huskโ€™s five motors ignite, bathing the jan and wan in a harsh orange light. Piloted by the unseen Ayat, the colossal vessel slowly lifts into the night sky, leaving Lailah and Bodea alone in its fiery wake. FADE OUT.
  • CB: (Director’s Note: Because there is only one line of dialogue, the actors and the camera do the heavy lifting here. The physical strain of dragging the watercraft and lingering shots of the glowing embers will naturally stretch the opening scene to the 90-second target without feeling rushed) ACT I EXT. BLUE VEIL FALLS – DAY (MONTAGE) SERIES OF SHOTS: Location shooting captures the treacherous journey. A) Lailah and Bodea abandon a battered raft at the roaring lip of BLUE VEIL FALLS. B) Below the cataract, they fashion a new raft from dark timber. C) They plunge through violent, white-water rapids. D) The river calms, carrying them into a stark, stony desert. Ponderous, ox-like beasts graze the banks. Local farmers stare in silent awe as the raft drifts past. LAILAH (V.O.) (Measured, regal) From the roaring of Blue Veil Falls, and running the unrunnable rapids, we were borne into the deserts of Kemen. We sought that which Ayat commanded the House of my father to seek, yet we found only withering heat.
  • CC: EXT. KEMEN DESERT – DAY (MONTAGE) The sun beats down relentlessly. Lailah and Bodea sit on the raft, exhausted, wiping sweat from their brows. LAILAH (V.O. begins when they arrive pier side and depart their raft) For a full season we sojourned in the city of Sessai. Thence overland unto Murzi Bog, and the war-torn Isle of Danya. We took ship to Medon. Yet in all these lands, no answer was found. EXT. TANNEDI MARKET – DAY The montage ends. We fade in on a bustling, crowded marketplace. Stalls overflow with green produce and vibrant silks. Lailah and Bodea, cloaked and weary, walk the narrow, dusty thoroughfare. The heat is visible, shimmering in the air. Bodea stops, leaning against a stone archway, fanning herself. BODEA I realized something today, Your Highness. I was born and dwell in what the humans of Earth call the “hot place” where the land wraps around to become the sky, and the sun is really a lake of fire the size of a province. But even so, this must be the hottest place in the hot place.
  • CD Lailah stops, her posture remaining rigidly upright despite the oppressive heat. LAILAH Bodea, I have taken unto myself a certain philosophy of necessity. If the weather of Kemen cannot be altered, then there is no wisdom in lamentation. Lailah pauses, wiping a bead of sweat from her neck. LAILAH (CONT’D) Nevertheless, this brings me little comfort. Nor yet ease. They resume walking, navigating through the throng of merchants. BODEA Sessai, Murzi Bog, Danya, Medon… and now Tannedi. Are we chasing a phantom, Princess? LAILAH We are chasing Ayatโ€™s charge. You know her command to my father king of Shalem: We seek a man that feels himself estranged within this world, as though it were but a shadow or a figment, for in truth so it is. He must hunger for another world which is the true source of all that is here perceived. Until such a man is found, our journey does not end. Bodea sighs, stepping aside to let a merchant pass. BODEA Yet I wonder, where on the Gudrun Road does one find a worshipful infidel?
  • CE: Suddenly, a SHOUT rings out over the din of the market. Lailah and Bodea both turn. Precisely where the road divides lies a rather large shop filled with stone idols and objects associated with worship. Within the shop TWO MEN are locked in a loud, bitter dispute. The older one is dressed in a merchant man’s finery. The younger appears a bit ragged, and dusty from the field, but he is fiercely defiant. Lailah narrows her eyes, stepping closer to the shop to listen. FADE OUT. (End of Act I) Screen Time: The travel montage will eat up about three to four minutes of highly visual storytelling, backed by music. The discussion of the heat and the quest will take about three minutes of measured, deliberate acting, leaving a solid one minute buffer for the argument to escalate before cutting to the sponsor. Act II will be our longest block (8:30 runtime). This act must hook the audience immediately after the GenMat commercial break. We need to open with our focus entirely on the dispute between the two men.
  • CF: INT. TERAH’S SHOP – CONTINUOUS We follow the shouting into a small, dimly lit shop off the market. Racks of wooden idols and totems cover the walls. TERAH (60s, shop owner) stands behind a worktable, chisel in hand. His son, AVRAM (30s, nomadic garb), paces fiercely before him. AVRAM Father, thou cuttest down the cedars which Ayat planted! Avyah sent rain to water them. Imran made the Lake of Fire to shine upon them. Avram grabs a piece of scrap wood from the floor, holding it up. AVRAM (CONT’D) Thou growest cold, and with a portion of thy firewood thou raisest a blaze to warm thyself and bake thy bread. Yet with the remainder, thou carvโ€™st an image of the dragon, and bowest thyself before it! Azul! Avram slams the wood onto the table. AVRAM (CONT’D) Thou givest adoration unto the one god who had no part in the provision of the wood itself! Why Azul? Because he is thy god. And wherefore is he thy god? Because he was the god of thy father Karnebo. So praise be unto Azul, and contempt upon the others!
  • CG: Avram drops to one knee, mocking Terahโ€™s posture of prayer. AVRAM (CONT’D) Thou bowest thyself before this image and criest, ‘Azul, deliver me from this cold season.’ Yet it entereth not into thy mind that this deaf and dumb block, which thine own hands have carved, is a vain thing. Terah sets his chisel down and points to a small carving on a shelf. TERAH Behold there the image of Amathlai. Thinkest thou that I take it to be truly thy mother? Avram holds his peace, answering not a word. TERAH (CONT’D) These images do no more than direct the heart and mind along paths of devotion. The chime of the shop door interrupts them. LAILAH and BODEA enter. The father and son fall into a tense silence as the strangers slowly walk the perimeter of the room, examining the racks of idols. After a full circuit, Bodea draws forth a heavy satchel. Slowly she begins to lay forth gold tiles, a staggering fortune set openly for the street to see. Terah and Avram stare in shock. Within moments, shadows darken the doorway.
  • CH: FIVE MEN OF VIOLENCE cross the threshold, drawing swords. LEADER Stand away from the gold, both of you, and depart quickly. Lailah turns to face them, her posture perfectly calm. LAILAH Suppose we do not? With a sudden, mechanical shift, Lailahโ€™s cloak falls away. BLACK-FEATHERED WINGS unfurl from her back, stretching across the cramped shop. The thieves flinch, but the Leader grips his sword tighter. LEADER Then we will take thy heads, and have the gold also. Immortal thou mayest account thyself, yet if thy head be severed, thou shalt die even as any wan. Lailahโ€™s eyes narrow. By a motion of perception deeper than conscious thought, she identifies the Leader. From her side, Lailah draws her weapon: Shahar Haruach. (DIRECTOR’S VFX NOTE: The weapon is a burning torch, but via high-contrast optical printing, the flame is held out as a matte. The result is a roaring, absolute BLACK FLAME that seems to consume the dust and light around it.) Lailah thrusts the black flame forward. She smites the Leader once.
  • CI: A wide aperture is carved completely through the midst of his body. He collapses as the camera dollies closely on Lailah, leaving the worst of the carnage unseen. But even she looks momentarily astonied at the uncontained power of the weapon. A SECOND MAN lunges. Lailah sweeps the Windgate down upon his head, and again the camera tracks away judiciously, leaving only the collapse of his lifeless body to be seen. A THIRD MAN strikes, his blade meeting the black fire. The flame consumes his sword down to the hilt, eating the metal as though accepting it into its own substance. The thief stares at his empty hilt in terror. He drops it, turns, and flees into the market. The remaining two thieves follow, scattering into the crowd. Lailah lowers Shahar Haruach, the black flame still licking noisily at the air. Lailah does not pursue them. Instead she turns her gaze back to Avram. The hissing black ball of flame dissipates. The bodies of the two thieves lie in the shop, motionless. FADE OUT. (End of Act II)
  • CJ: Act III. BODEA steps carefully around the carnage, and her expression is unreadable. BODEA Last year in Shalem, the order of things was reversed somewhat; for we were they that overawed the customers, and took unto ourselves their gold. Lailah allows her black wings to fold away beneath her cloak (spring-loaded props, filmed in reverse). LAILAH I think I made common cause with the Fallen Angels only that I might draw the attention of my father. For he seemed much preoccupied at the time. BODEA Then verily the design hath succeeded. For His Majesty hath taken notice, and behold, here are we both. TERAH, trembling uncontrollably, collapses to his knees. He presses his face to the floor, believing he is in the presence of two of his carved demigods made flesh. AVRAM remains standing. He looks down at his groveling father, his face twisting into a countenance of profound disappointment with his father. He even steps a bit closer to Lailah, despite having seen what she could do, offering no fearful obeisance.
  • CK: Sar Lailah watches him. Avram’s defiance all by itself confirms his worth beyond all doubt. She nods to the Hashmal Bodea. BODEA (Regal, echoing) In the name of El Elyon, God Most High, Lord of Heaven and Earth, I bid thee go forth from thy fatherโ€™s kin, and dwell in the other world. Upon Earth shall God make of thee a great nation, and multiply thy bounty beyond all measure. Thy name shall become great among men. And Lailah steps forward, taking up the second portion of the recitation. LAILAH God shall bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee. Mortal men and women in every place and in time yet to come shall receive great blessings through thee. These are the words of the Lord of all the Earth. Lailah stops within arms reach of Avram. LAILAH (CONT’D) What sayest thou unto all these things, Avram son of Terah? Avram looks directly into the searching dark eyes of the princess. He does not blink. AVRAM (Firmly) Nay. And a heavy silence fills the shop.
  • CL: It takes a long moment for the sheer audacity of the word to register with Lailah. LAILAH Knowest thou who I am? AVRAM Thy face is known unto many, Your Highness. Though my father, I think, hath never beheld the daughter of Kar Melchizedek. LAILAH Well spoken, Avram. Traveling with me is Hash Bodea. Together we have crossed the breadth of Kemen, over land and water, and even through the air, seeking such a man as thou art. Thus was I commanded by my father, for God Most High spake unto the king face to face. Avram nods respectfully. He reaches down, taking Terah by the arms, and gently lifts his trembling father to his feet. AVRAM I admire thy desire to do well in the eyes of thy father, Princess. And I wish thee well therein. But my own father is infirm of body. He earneth not enough to sustain himself and my mother. Avram makes a brief hand signal toward the street. AVRAM (CONT’D) As I love mine own life, I can in nowise turn aside from my father for all the days that he is a wayfarer in Kemen.
  • CM: A SERVANT enters the shop, leading TWO LIVING LAMBS. AVRAM (CONT’D) (To Terah) One for slaughter and meat. The other for sale, that thou might purchase the necessities of life until the next season, when I come up from the open range. Terah, still shaken, accepts the leads. TERAH (Whispering) Thank you, my son. Lailah nods in full understanding. She gestures to Bodea, and the two travelers from Shalem begin to restow the tiles of gold into their leather purses. Lailah refuses to speak another word of persuasion, taking great care not to tread upon the fortress of human dignity Avram has asserted. With the gold packed, Lailah and Bodea exit the shop, disappearing into the dusty throng of the Tannedi market. EXT. TANNEDI MARKET – CONTINUOUS The camera pulls high above the bustling market, leaving Avram and Terah behind. LAILAH (V.O.) I left him there in the heat of Kemen. And in all my journeys across the length and breadth of that world, I found no man at all who was remotely like unto Avram. FADE OUT
  • CN: The end credits and the final sponsor plug lasted one minute, followed by a ten second GenMat network ID and a fifty second preview of the next week’s show. One evening at supper Mikaela remarked to Ariel that she stood in clear need of a male companion to quiet certain persistent rumors passing among the refugees. The following morning, Ariel promptly purchased a stallion. Joshua Lange, who was courting Ariel and fumbling in the attempt, betrayed a momentary, sharp jealousy upon discovering a strange hair clinging to her coat; Ariel simply led forth the horse from which it had been shed. “Ariel,” he said haltingly, “you have traversed bounds of history and geography in ways that I can scarcely comprehend. What could a woman of your vast experience possibly see in a man of my humble station?” Dropping all pretense of formality that Lange had supposed was foundational to the great game of pitching woo, she said, “I am genuinely astonished that a man of your age has never received the Mommy and Daddy Talk.”
  • CO: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 2, September 14, 1950: In answer to Joshua’s inquiries pertaining to House Haivri rules of courtship Mikaela replied, “If you have a mind toward Ariel, then know that she is wholly free, and such customs are appointed by Ariel herself, and it will be your task to discover them, and truth be told, Joshua, therein lies the interest!” Joshua perceived that Ariel sought out his company in her turn, requiting his affinity in small signs that waxed at a stately pace. There came an evening when Ariel loosed some of the bonds of her corselet. She discreetly revealed something substantial of what a mortal man was set to receive when an elyonoth set her heart upon him in return. To Joshua’s mind the show of brown feathers settled matters. At her bridal gathering, Ariel received numerous gifts, a significant portion of which were horse bridles. On the day appointed for the wedding itself, Ariel tarried overlong mucking and tending the stables. Lange proceeded with his vows regardless.
  • CP: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 3, September 21, 1950: Rimmon arrived at the house of Uriel in Anshar, expecting to see one of the ophanim, an avatar of Davar. Instead of an orrery of wheels and eyes he found a young man by the name of Yeshua. Rimmon rebuked him for failing to grovel. Yeshua declared he was the living avatar of Davar. Rimmon said, โ€œThen welcome to the world of meat.โ€ Yeshua explained that Ayat brought him to the house forty days earlier, though he had gone ten days without food. When Rimmon suggested Ayat send angels with provisions, Yeshua quoted the Litany of Creation back to him: โ€œKemenites shall not put the gods to the test.โ€ Rimmon pressed him further, asking why Ayat would commit the human incarnation of her own son to hunger and solitude. Yeshua answered that Ayat assumed Rimmon would wish to meet a new seraph before he departed for Earth. Asked concerning his purpose there, Ser Yeshua replied only that Ayat had tasked him with ensuring human history unfolded more to Ayatโ€™s liking.
  • CQ: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 4, September 28, 1950: In 1870 a railroad spur finally penetrates the ring of hills enveloping Havilah, curving on a narrow shelf along the river in a self-merging terminal loop. To the confusion of the Stiffnecks the first train is not a soot-belching steamer but a sleek bullet express with self-leveling, banking cars. It arrives on no discernible schedule, with only its wheels making any sound, debouching passengers attending a funeral for a man whose grandfather isn’t even born yet. Mikaela mutters, โ€œTsk tsk.โ€ Cassiel asks her, โ€œWhat do you think, Mikki? Twenty-one or Twenty-two?โ€ Mikaela takes a longer look and pronounces, โ€œEarly-mid Twenty-first,โ€ inaugurating Pin the Decade on the Locomotive, a spectator sport unique to Havilah. The conductorโ€™s featherless bat-wings lie folded under a high-visibility vest, ticket punch in her hand, ready to demand fare from departing passengers. Mikaela asks, โ€œWhy have you now come, Charen?โ€ She replies, โ€œI would speak to the manager.โ€
  • CR: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 5, November 2, 1950: Jezebel was not really wicked, but rather a glamorous celebrity in the mold of Sarah Bernhardt, whose grand festivals devoted to Avyah (Asherah) were drawing frenzied crowds throughout the Levant. Elisha adopted the persona of โ€œElijahโ€ and challenged her priests to what was intended as a dramatic public contest of divine favor. Ardarel the angel of fire handled the spectacle itself, employing her talent to instantaneously consume Elijahโ€™s water-soaked altar in a pillar of flame. But the display spurred the crowd into a furore of Yahwist zeal that transformed into a riot, making an end to Jezebelโ€™s priests, musicians, and attendants alike. Elisha was horrified by the carnage his demonstration had unleashed and withdrew into seclusion, abandoning his Elijah persona with a tale involving a fiery chariot. By degrees the royal house and the priesthood orchestrated a sweeping historic revision, recasting the once-beloved Jezebel as a monstrous corrupter.
  • CS: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 1 episode 6, November 9, 1950: Havilahโ€™s annual barn dance descends into chaos when Ariel arrives. Her body radiates airborne molecules that light up the reward centers of beasts…and men. A flashback reveals the truth behind the notched sticks Ya’akov placed to segregate the animals. Ariel didn’t just calm the ringstraked and speckled cattle, her aura left Lavahn and his shepherds too euphoric to notice she was subtly stacking the deck in Ya’akovโ€™s favor. The marked sticks were merely a visual aid labeling the breeding lines so Ya’akov and Ariel could selectively pair them. In 1874 Arielโ€™s pheromones caused the town council to follow her around like lovesick puppies. Dumah silently watched the absurd parade and blew cigar smoke to disperse Arielโ€™s localized pheromone cloud, breaking the spell. Dumah, completely immune to the effect, silently herded the dazed politicians back into the town hall using a marked wooden stick, mocking the Torah scribesโ€™ misunderstanding of genetics.
  • CT: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 7, November 16, 1950: In the beautiful stone and glass house of Ser Uriel, Emperor Rimmon led Yeshua to a balcony upstairs and showed him a painted and varnished relief of Kemen carved into the gopher wood by a skilled artisan. Rimmon traced the borders of Elendal and Magodon, presenting that part of the hollow world as his exclusive dominion. Yeshua replied that Rimmon did not understand such ownership, noting he was a man inhabited by a sentient star which had formerly taken a dragon-form avatar. Rimmon answered that nonetheless, were Yeshua to give him the same deference he offered his mother, nothing more, then Adan would be granted to him to rule with impunity. Yeshua declined, asking why he should be satisfied to rule over a fraction of an artificial world that itself was smaller than Earth by a factor of forty. He added that Kemen was merely the first interstellar colony of humankind, and that even on Earth he was not being made ready to rule but merely to teach.
  • CU: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 8, November 23, 1950: Dr. Miriam Wahkan, known among the angels as Raphael, struggles to conceal her impossible healing abilities from a visiting U.S. Army surgeon. To preserve the secret of her โ€œveterinary primer,โ€ Miriam performs a grotesque imitation of frontier medicine before the physician, applying leeches, prescribing mercury compounds, and wrapping wounds in foul-smelling poultices while her molecular machines quietly restore the patients beneath the bandages. She falls back on quarantine, boiled instruments, herbal remedies, and exhausting bedside care. Meanwhile, Mikaela and Ariel host a delegation of the Loyal Opposition at one of Havilahโ€™s scalding geothermal springs. The negotiations proceed with elaborate courtesy and increasing passive aggression while all parties remain submerged in sulfurous water far too hot for ordinary bathers. At last the demons surrender the point under dispute and abruptly conclude the talks, unable to endure the heat any longer.
  • CV: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 9, November 30, 1950: Apostle Joshua Lange preaches a Sunday sermon at Temple Derekh Mehushedet. In the Temple basement dining room, his wife Ariel greets him with their young two children, Samael and Remiel. As Remiel is two years older, Ariel suggests they separate their visits this time, to bring their ages a little closer together. They do this periodically in order that the children may become the same chronological age by 1930, as Mikaela has carefully planned. Ariel assures Joshua it will not affect her greatly, since angels can live for three centuries, though she will greatly miss him and Remiel over the next six days. Joshua passes through a storeroom into tunnels beneath the Temple, which rise twenty-five feet without rising, and advances six days up the timeline. At the rectory, Ariel, who is now six days older, greets him with a kiss. Joshua takes Remiel and Samael to bed. He then begins preparing his next sermon, as it will be Sunday again on the following day.
  • CW: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 10, February 1, 1951: Yeshua told Rimmon humanity must first learn to live peacefully with one another, and later perhaps fill space with their chatter, drawing the attention of Elohim beyond Rimmonโ€™s hidden court. Yeshua went on to say that should Ayat be granted access to the City of Stars, she would announce her discovery of the Students without mentioning the centuries during which she had been silenced. Rimmon refused, declaring Davar a disappointment from the moment of his conception, and insisting that revelation of the Students would bring intolerable scrutiny upon himself. He then resolved to press his one remaining advantage. Drawing a long infernal blade from within his tunic, Rimmon lunged at Yeshua upon the upper balcony. Yeshua bent backward over the railing as a great sphere of water appeared in midair beneath him. He fell into it as Rimmon watched helplessly, and the sphere vanished in an instant, leaving only ankle-deep water upon the floor of Urielโ€™s house.
  • CX: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 11, February 8, 1951: The eloh Imran took possession of a winged lan from Elendal named Isra’El to perform a compliance audit. When he crossed over to Earth, Isra’El took little thought for her personal safety. Zuriel had solemnly assured her Ya’akov ha’Ivri was more the son of his mother than the son of his father, a man who preferred the womanly arts of whispering and plotting to direct action on the hunt or field of battle. On the banks of the river Yarden there ensued a fist fight that became an all-night wrestling match. At one point Isra’El ripped the man’s raiment and saw Avram’s grandson bore the mutilation of males Imran had demanded in his bid to sabotage the experiment. So Ya’akov passed the spot check, but there remained the matter of the struggle itself. Before the night was over Ya’akov won the match, taking the name of the giantess as his own and winning a blessing as well, as the price for letting the defeated nephiloth wriggle like a maggot back into Hell.
  • CY: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 12, February 15, 1951: The five hunters mounted a rise, and there the fog became thin, and the blue of the sky showed itself again. This time their shafts went true, and one of the beasts fell. And when he saw that the younger men labored well, Takoda rode his horse to the highest place of that hill, and there he saw he was not alone. A white man-shape sat upon the ground. It was a smooth figure with no eyes nor mouth nor ears. And it was not white like the men from the east who are called whites, but white like the purest snow. And in its hand it held a dark rod. This it put forth, as a man gives a gift. When he had come near, Takoda dismounted, and he reached out his hand, and he took hold of the rod. Yet the figure did not move. It did not resist him. Takoda stood with the thing in his hand. Then he turned it, and as he did so, there came from it something like a flame, yet one utterly black. He set it to the ground, and it opened the hard stone as though it were soft.
  • CZ: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ season 2 episode 13, February 22, 1951: Metatron arrived in Havilah to perform his periodic re-certification of Migdalel College, but he displayed a deep-seated contempt for ishim, worsened by secondary students who repeatedly interrupted him at inconvenient moments. He threatened to revoke the Academyโ€™s accreditation. Mikaela, seeking leverage, attempted to uncover information that might compel Metatron to relent. Cassiel, now the Scribe of God after Metatronโ€™s elevation, revealed to the Dean that Metatron was not a descendant of Sar Lailah as he claimed to be, but rather a human draftee who had once been the man named Enoch in Genesis. Armed with this knowledge, Mikaela found Metatron in Havilah eating a sabich pita from an Assyrian Christian street vendor, his first such meal since his promotion. Mikaela threatened to reveal the truth of his origins, and his deception, to Tea Spiller. Metatron renewed Migdalel Collegeโ€™s accreditation and withdrew from Havilah, at least for the time being.