What you're about to hear is based on actual events.

Listener discretion is advised.

It is no accident that he still walks the earth.

He is but a pawn in the struggle between good and evil.

A pawn that was once oily black and clutched tight between the devil's leathery fingers.

But it is now pearly and quartz-like.

A tool that God himself has snatched and transformed for the use of good.

Joshua Blayy has lived two lives.

Lives played out in the shadows of the universe's ultimate forces.

He is relieved to be free from the dark one.

But this light is so bright.

So bright and relentless that he fears it may melt him before the enormity of his transgressions have been evaporated.

He can see it quite clearly in the eyes of those he meets, that they believe him to be a false prophet.

And that is all right with Joshua.

For if he were to be forgiven, to be cleared and left to walk his own path,

he would be nothing out of the hand of the devil or God.

He knows that he will be swallowed by the children who haunt him.

The mud caked forms he sees from the corner of his eye near everywhere he travels,

crawling from the puddles, striding out from the rivers.

They are coming for him.

And all he can do is cling to the Lord's fingers and hope that his hand continues to move him up

the board.

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