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to fight by your side, you would do well to use her tools wisely. Convince her that she should fight by your side until the end and the two of you will be able to do more together than the sum of your parts. The choices are yours.”
    Usually when one of these angel-types finished talking, there were a lot of questions that went unasked or answers that Eric still wanted to hear. This Michael fellow was alright. At least he sat down and talked eye to eye and said everything that was really going on. It did make Eric wonder if there was a ranking system with angels like their seemed to be with demons. Some angels he had seen seemed positively worried about what the Devil and his demons were able to pull off. Michael didn’t seem worried for thrones of heaven at all. It seemed that, if Michael was to be believed, that the only thing that was really at stake here was the condition of the entire human race. Satan wanted to take the entire bunch down to hell with him apparently.
    What had seemed like an easy choice according to Lucifer had been clarified by Michael. According to the leader of the demons, Eric had to either choose to keep fighting and die or join forces with the bad guys and rule. Michael seemed to suggest that if Eric chose to go the ruler route, he would actually lose everything. It came down to who could be believed and trusted the most. For someone who spent their life in a church pew that might be a really easy decision. Eric was not that person however.
    Michael seemed to be okay with Eric just like he was. If Eric was going to be true to who he knew he was, then he also could not just simply believe what these supreme beings said. He would have to go through each day, one day at a time, and make his decision walking. That is how he thought best anyway; on his feet with sword in hand.
    One thing still troubled him however. Satan had warned him that he would be on his knees in a battle very soon. That seems to suggest that Eric will be close to defeat or close to giving up; one or the other, if not both. Standing here in the aftermath of a vision with the scene still firmly intact, Eric could never imagine being brought to his knees on the field of battle if his legs were still attached.
    Was it possible that this Devil of devils and demon of demons was to be believed? Should Eric take Michael seriously that all he had to do was continue doing things the way he did them and expect more superhuman gifts? What about this stuff concerning Destiny? They didn’t know any more than Eric did what the woman would choose to do but Eric should attempt to convince her to fight by his side until the end; unto death? That did not seem like something that he would do and therefore – assuming they were so similar – he doubted Destiny would either. All the same, it could be promising if the two of them somehow could be blessed with more abilities together than they had separately. As the scene began to fade, Eric knew that he had a lot of thinking to do even after he woke up. Things just got even more confusing than they were before and that was more troubling than anything else.

Chapter 2
     
    When Eric’s eyes first opened, he couldn’t see a thing. It wasn’t like he had slept too hard or something like that. He could see only bright white lights. It wasn’t difficult to figure out that the bright lights he had seen during the vision were affecting his ability to see clearly right now. For lack of a better thought of how to deal with it, Eric decided to simply close his eyes once again.
    The next time he woke up, Eric could at least see well enough to know what was in front of him which was a big improvement. Unfortunately, the fact that he woke up again meant he had been asleep once again. The only good news there was that this was one of the few times he could remember that he slept for any length of time without seeing a dream or a vision of any kind. The bad news was that he could hear movement, which meant