Wind chimes fluttered and clattered with beautiful melodies as Sarah walked through a series of shining white gates into paradise. Utopia surrounded her with disturbing perfection almost like the taste of something so sweet it’s unpalatable. Most of all she felt like she was being stalked by some serene watcher, but that was heaven for you. Or maybe it wasn’t?
“You’re back” she looked up to see her lurker. He was tall, blond, and had blue eyes, wearing smart white pressed pants and a white button down shirt tucked away neatly, the spitting image of an angel.
    “Peter” she called to him coyly “all ways a pleasure”
“You went down to earth without authorization” he stated matter-of-factly, wings fluttering as he swooped down to her level from above. “again.”
“What’s it to you” she retorted
“Look you can’t keep doing this, what if something happens while you’re out.”  
“Well what happened while I was away this last time?” she said angrily.
“Well he replied while you were once again going through processing in purgatory an unclaimed was located”
“Shit!” she held her head, angry with herself. Ignoring her peter continued.
“Apparently we have an unclaimed that‘s been lost for almost twenty years, and you missed it.”
“Status…”
We’ve already chosen our” he paused to find the right word “….negotiator”
“What! Who!” This information sent her reeling.
“Just some girl, ‘compelled by the greater good’, sent to win their trust. No need to send some champion yet when we can have someone near them win him over for us, thinking it god’s will. Really you send one angel, have him say it’s for god and those mortals will do anything for you.”
“Dammit, I missed all this?” she slowly regained her cool and lit a cigarette from the pack she held in the right-hand pocket of her skirt.
“What’s that?” Peter turned to see what she now held more fully “hey you can’t have that! Where’d you get it?”
“Around” she strutted off tauntingly further into paradise, abandoning peter at the gate he guarded for eternity.
In Boston a detective was missing a pack of cigarettes.