When Buck and Ben-Judah were within about fifteen feet of the fence, one of the witnesses held up a hand, and they stopped. He spoke, not at the top of his voice as Buck had always heard him before, but still in a sonorous tone. “We will approach and introduce ourselves,” he said. The two men walked slowly and stood just inside the iron bars. “Call me Eli,” he said. “And this is Moishe.”
Okay, so the rest of this scene is surprisingly good. LaHaye does a good job creating a mystical atmosphere, and the witnesses speak only by re-enacting a story from the New Testament. There are enough layers of separation between the two parties that you can feel the distance of the powers that sent them. Reading this is a lot like reading an interaction a Greek hero might have with an oracle. This might be the best scene in the series so far, and only goes to prove my point that we really should have had an eye in this subplot starting in book one.
