A smile creased my lips as the murky waters cleared from my mind, a mind that should have been disturbed and irrational after what I'd been through yet despite that my head was as focused as it ever had been.

A man reaps what he sows?

I repeated it to myself over and over again. Why hadn't I seen it at the time? Why hadn't I worked out that what it meant was that whatever was handed out could also be given back...I had the right to wreak my vengeance in any way I chose. Maybe that was what I couldn't understand from God...maybe he had been trying to tell me that the mightier the vengeance the more satisfying it would feel. I had no doubt that was how he felt as he dealt out his retribution to those who chose to worship what he called false idols.

I laughed out loud...we were back on the same side. He had pushed me to the limit just to stir my emotions, to make sure we were together in our aims. I had to understand that to truly be myself I had to be completely and totally free of all my burdens. He was telling me...he was ordering me...to seek revenge and to get that I knew I had only one option...I had to find Tom.

I didn't sleep at all, the very thought of Tom saw to that, his presence infiltrating deeper inside me than it had at any point in my life, far more than on any of the occasions that I had tried to kill him. I became conscious that killing him then wasn't meant to have happened because I knew that what I was doing was commiting a crime...I didn't have anybody telling me that it wasn't a crime, that it was right...not like now, now God was on my side. He was my driving force to justice and I had ultimate faith that he would show me that I feared no evil. The valley of the shadow of Tom's death was beckoning and his demise would make the whole world rejoice...

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