“Do you remember the story I told once about Elijah and the Baal prophets?” He frowned slightly. “The man who called down fire from the heavens to burn his offering and then afterwards butchered two hundred priests?” He remembered. He had been amazed that Hadassah could tell such a bloody tale. He straightened and put distance between them. “What of it?” “After Elijah destroyed the priests, Queen Jezebel said she would do the same to him, and he ran away because he was afraid.” “Afraid of a woman?” “Not just any woman, Marcus. She was very evil and very powerful. Elijah ran away into the
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