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Who Is Like God
A selected passage from Book One of the Agape Trilogy.
Now she was older. And the more she learned, the more questions seemed to spring from the answers. She pulled her cloak tighter around herself and looked out over the valley once more. There was a longing within her that she could not name. Not a longing to leave Bergvalla, for she loved the city. It was her home, her calling, and her responsibility. But sometimes, especially in the early morning hours before the day’s bustle filled the streets, she sensed that there was something greater than all that was familiar.
As if the truth were not just something to be preserved behind walls, but something one must continue to seek with a heart that was still capable of listening. That thought sometimes made her uneasy. Bergvalla had been built to protect what was valuable. The walls, the laws, and the order had served the city well through the generations. Yet she sometimes wondered if people could become so preoccupied with defending the truth that they eventually forgot to live at its heart.
She didn’t know why that question had resurfaced this particular morning. Only that it had. She heard footsteps behind her.
