The Sign
By: Kelly McDonald “It’s time for the Sign”, thought Jophiel. As the angelic figure contemplated his next assignment, he couldn’t help but marvel at what he had been commissioned to do. A glorious event was about to occur, affecting the inhabitants of countless worlds spread far across the cosmos. The divine creator had designed a signal to be given, notifying the mortal inhabitants on these many worlds the beginning of this glorious event. Now Jophiel would start it in motion. And he knew how critical his execution needed to be. He must trigger the Sign perfectly. On some of those worlds, divinity had simply revealed to their inhabitants that something would appear in their heavens, announcing the event. However, in other worlds, specific secondary events were also scheduled to happen in connection with the Sign. He must perform his own assignment perfectly to match those declared timings. Jophiel traveled to the physical place in the cosmos where the Sign had been constructed e...
