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sleep.

Still, this dream was different.

He climbed to his feet, strapped the backpack in place, picked up
the duffel bag, and walked back through the park toward the two-
lane blacktop that wound west toward Pittsburgh. As always, the
events of his dream would occur soon in his present, giving him a
chance to affect them in a positive way. It was June. The gypsy
morph would be born three days after Thanksgiving. If he was
present and if he was quick enough, he would be able to capture it.

Then he would have roughly thirty days to change the course of
history.

That challenge would have shaken any man, but it was not the
challenge of the gypsy morph that haunted Ross as he walked
from the park to begin his journey west. It was his memory of the
man on the cross in his dream, the fallen Knight of the Word. It was
the man's face as it had lifted from the shadow of his long hair in
the final moments of his life.

For the face of the man hanging on the cross had been his own.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21






CHAPTER 1

Nest Freemark had just finished dressing for church when she
heard the knock at the front door. She paused in the middle of
applying her mascara at the bathroom mirror and glanced over her
shoulder, thinking she might have been mistaken, that she wasn't
expecting anyone and it was early on a Sunday morning for visitors
to come around without calling first.

She went back to applying her makeup. A few minutes later the
knock came again.

She grimaced , then glanced quickly at her watch for confirmation.
Sure enough. Eight forty-five. She put down her mascara,
straightened her dress, and checked her appearance in the mirror.
She was tall, a shade under five-ten, lean, and fit, with a distance
runner's long legs, narrow hips, and small waist. She had seemed
gangly and bony all through her early teens, except when she ran,
but she had finally grown into her body. At twenty-nine, she moved
with an easy, fluid mode l' s grace that belied the strength and