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335%u201cGood. Come on then. We need to take her to John Tucker the undertaker. Nancy will use her gift to keep her unconscious. We must dress her first.%u201d The Dean told him.They were gathered in the basement of John Tucker%u2019s funeral parlour: the Dean, Nancy, John Tucker, Dawn%u2014his employee and lover, Ken, Jasmine, and one other%u2014Ken%u2019s dead wife. Edith and Jasmine were laid out, side by side, on the large marble table John used to prepare the dead.%u201cWe are going to exorcise the Devil, itself, from out of Jasmine. We need the loan of your innocent dead wife to do this right. It is the Devil that killed her so we can use her empty vessel to trick him into leaving Jasmine and move into her body. Once he is there, we can trap him there, and he will return to his domain.%u201d The Dean explained.%u201cI don%u2019t believe in God, the Devil, angels, heaven or hell,%u201d Ken said.%u201cNo. Nor do we, Nancy said. %u201cThere is but a single creator of our reality, the mischievous but dreaming deity called, Mol. The Devil is a facet of his mind. If we satisfy his creativity and play our part to amuse him and his followers, then what we are saying will happen.%u201d%u201cI%u2019ll go along with whatever you say if it brings Jasmine back to normal. You know she wants to rob a bank?%u201d%u201cNancy knew and was going along to stop it. The Convent will donate the rebuilding cost. She earned millions for the Church. She has no need to rob the bank.%u201d The Dean told him. %u201cOkay. Let%u2019s get started.%u201d%u201cYou need to remove your clothes, please, Ken.%u201d Nancy told him. He looked at Edith and at Jasmine both naked, both un-moving on the cold marble.He removed his clothes. Nancy took them and gave them to Dawn.The Devil Drops By