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"Sorry I'm late," Uriel said.

"Can I get you anything?" Gabe said.

"No, that's okay," Uriel said, sitting down. "I got stuck talking

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to Lot's wife. You know how she is. I couldn't get away. Are
we to Programming yet?"

"No," I said. "Saraqael's reporting on the decorations." I
nodded at her to start.

"Okay, well, I've got the rainbow-" she said.

"And the lamps and the chairs for the elders," I said quickly.
"What about the Book of the Judgments?"

"Yeah," she said, " `written within and on the back side and
sealed with seven seals.' I don't have the wax for the seven
seals yet. I didn't know what color you wanted me to get."

"Red," Phanuel said.

"Black," Uriel said at the same time.

"What does the Planning Committee report say?" I asked.

"It doesn't," Sara said. "I was kind of thinking gold to go with
the crowns and the trumpets."

"Fine," I said. "Gold."

"Shouldn't there be a motion?" Phanuel said.

No, I thought, but I said, "Sure. Do I have a motion that the
wax for the seals be gold?"

"I so move," Sara said.

"I second," Gabe said.

"Discussion?" I said.

"I think black would be more appropriate than gold," Uriel
said. "After all, the breaking of the seals is supposed to signal
the coming of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."