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Guardians of the Seal<br />
When Tara's doorbell rang, she wondered who it could be at that time of<br />
evening. Imani was not due to appear with her boyfriend till the next morning.<br />
She put down the book she was reading and adjusted her reading glasses.<br />
She then slipped into the fuzzy slippers Imani had got her and padded to the<br />
door lazily. She didn't notice it was opened until she stretched her hand to<br />
open it. Panic flooded through her and she turned to run into the house. As she<br />
swung around, strong arms caught her. She was about to scream for help<br />
when she looked up into familiar brown eyes. “Gabriel!” she shouted. “I<br />
haven't seen you since…” she paused to catch her breath. “You gave me such<br />
a scare; you haven't changed at all.”<br />
Gabriel laughed. “You still always try to say more than one thing at a time<br />
when you see me, Tara. That has not changed.” He held her a little distance<br />
from himself and gave a look over her. “The years have been kind to you.”<br />
She laughed and led him into the living area of the house.<br />
“You totally forgot us,” Tara said as they settled in a seat. “Not even once<br />
did you stop by in all these years.”<br />
Gabriel shifted in his chair into a more comfortable position. “I go only where I<br />
am sent; not my will, but His. I would have loved more than nothing else to<br />
come, but I wasn't sent here till now.”<br />
Tara sighed. She knew he spoke the truth. He was an angel after all and<br />
there were many important supernatural events he had to attend to than to be<br />
interested in the whims of a mortal woman who didn't see other mortal men like<br />
herself to love.<br />
“And how is the little girl?” he ventured.<br />
“Imani?”<br />
“Do you have any other?”<br />
Tara laughed. “Are we going to have a conversation entirely made up of<br />
questions? As you say, questions always lead to more questions.”<br />
Gabriel recalled that was the first thing he said to her and they both laughed.<br />
When they stopped, he went back to his question. “How is she?”<br />
“She is not so little anymore, for starters. She's a big woman now.”<br />
Tara was avoiding the question even though it was clear to him she knew what
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