“Simply look down instead of up,” Manny pushed his hands deeper into his pockets and hiked his shoulders up against a chill no one else probably felt. It was 99F outside.
“But the basilica is right here, and so beautiful!” Danielle exhaled wonder.
My point exactly, Manny thought, but did not say. Recruiting was a subtle thing.
Instead he nudged the water with his shoe, rippling the surface to distort the reflection of the edifice. Almost spitefully the puddle settled back into the sharpest mirror, and Manny half expected his superiors to appear in frowning disappointment at his dismal conversion pace.
“What it is?” Danielle responded to his sigh, her eyes still gazing in the opposite direction of the Netherworld, and therefore opposite to where he needed them to be.
“Nothing,” he muttered, deflated.
Her softly luminescent hand appeared. “How about we go into the church and pray about it?”
For Crispina‘s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
I like that. That wouldn’t have been the devil trying to lead her astray, would it?
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Hmm … who knows, eh? But it seems she’s ending up leading HIM to church … 😉
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Nice one 🙂
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🙂 Thank you! 🙂
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🙂
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Ooooh… I like Crispina’s comment. A thought that had not occurred to me but now I wonder!
Well done, Missy.
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Hmm … who knows … 😉 Seems they’re ending up in church so … 😉 (if he’s a devilish minion, he ain’t to good at his recruitment job … 😉 perhaps try for more angelic requirements … ;))
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Who knows, indeed? That’s the joy of being a writer, eh? How readers interpret our stories. So often they see things I had no idea I was being clever about… 😏
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I know, isn’t it fun!??? I think that is one of the most fun things about being a writer and being read – because there are so many more ways to interpret and visualize and perceive what one writes than what one might’ve intended or been aware of at the time of writing! 🙂 Here’s to ideas and imagination and the cleverness of minds! 🙂 xx
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Yes! Exackery! And guess what? An idea came to me as I was showering… gonna go put down my 31 words… 😉
Hear! Hear! 🙂
xoxo
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YEAH! Me wait to read! 🙂
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It’s almost there. One of those times when I would have liked 35 instead of 31… trying not to lose my gist 😉
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You didn’t lose nofin!
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You da sweetest!
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😀
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🙂
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