Some Velvet Morning

<h2><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Another Tale of the Blue Panda</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></h2><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This gravestone was for a woman alone. Me. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I read it carefully as Hero's wings encircled me and Ariel still held my hand. </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sacred to the memory of Rev. P. A. V. Ransom Rector of this parish</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then there was a date and beneath it one unexpected and three utterly astonishing words: </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Archaeologist</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Apostle of Peace</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And underneath those a sickle moon with a star a cross and a Star of David in a row.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You will do this </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>came the words into my head. 'Do what?' I asked perplexed.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Your destiny</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You will do this</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was the only reply. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bella Ransom returns for her greatest adventure: to find the First Temple of the Hebrews and see if it can bring peace into the world. No dogs die in this one promise. </span></p><p></p>