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She shook her head.


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"Why The World Didn't End Last Tuesday" by Connie Willis



"Good. Publicity?"

"That's Rafe," Gabe said.

Which I knew. I was getting rattled. It was three forty

"I forgot to bring my list," Penemue said. "Do you want me to
go get it?"

"No," I said. "Do you have the judgments lined up?"

"That's ProgrammingтАЩs job," he said. "I was in charge of
getting the seraphim and the four horsemen."

"Do you have them?"

"All but Pestilence. And does anybody have a pair of scales
that Famine can carry?"

"I've got a pair of scales for measuring the hills and the
mountains, but I think they'd be too big," Gabe said.

"What about the balance Nebuchadnezzar was weighed in?"
Phanuel said. "Isn't that around somewhere?"

"I think Daniel has it," Uriel said. "I'll ask him."

"Good," I said. "And you've got the seraphim?"

"Yes. They wanted to know what they were supposed to wear."

"White raiment," Sara said. "That's what everybody else is
wearing, the elders and the souls that were slain for the word
of God and the choir. Speaking of which, I need to know how
many chairs the choir's going to need."

"Penemue?" I said.

He shuffled through a tangle of papers. "I must have left my
list at home."

"I just need to know about how many," Sara said.