"This Chantry is he the one that shot and recruited you?" Anna asked.
"Yes."
"Do you think we can rescue Kevin? Be honest with me Tyre! I want the truth!"
Her eyes were imploring and I wanted to tell her anything it took to give her peace, but I owed her the truth. "If it's only you and me then no I don't see much hope for Kevin or us. If Chantry let's Flint and Galloway help us then our odds of success raise up to about 40 percent. If Chantry commits the whole agency and the board agrees its 100 percent chance of success or as close to it as you can get.
Even then something could still go wrong Anna. There's no certainty in missions like this other than that something will go wrong."
Tears slid down her cheeks and I could tell that she was holding in a wealth of emotion. She nodded as if to say thank you for being honest with her.
"Anna even if Chantry says no I'm still going after Kevin."
She nodded again and her lips quivered as she softly intoned, "I know."
She glanced at the cell phone on the table and then back at me and tried to summon up a watery smile. "I'll just have to pray that he says yes and that everything goes right."
She slipped off the bed and turned to pray with her elbows on the bed.
"You're going to pray?" I asked.
She nodded.
"Do you think it works?"
She turned her head to me, "Yes I do! God sent me you didn't He?"
She turned back to her clasped hands and I felt shaken. It was hard for me to fathom that I could ever be the answer to someone's prayer and yet she clearly believed so. I glanced at the phone on the table as I listened to Anna pour out her soul with a fervency that was as real as the God she believed in.
There comes a time in everyone's life when the choice to accept more of the same is present as is the choice to do something different. Something fundamentally right.
I picked the phone off the table and slid onto my knees beside Anna. She glanced over at me and I showed her the phone in my palm and her hand closed over top of it with mine and we started praying together over the same plea before God.
Along with praying for Kevin I admitted my belief in God through His Son Jesus as the truth and author behind all of creation. It was a truth of fact that I had known for a long time, but had never personally sought out, much less asked for the forgiveness of my many sins.