Abe chased the fleeing greeks deeper into the tunnel but tripped... oww! his hands scraped the rough rocky floor in the cave and his wrists ached. he stood but the light of the fire behind him only showed a split in the cave and he did not know which way they went. the left side seemed to have a dim light so he guessed they had a fire there and went in that cave... but soon the cave darkened so he realized the source of light was not from the cave he had only seen some reflection of the fire behind him. he felt scared he would stumble again and started crawling BACK to his team, thru this tunnel. luckily as he moved his right hand forward, his hand felt a CROSS of smooth moist metal. it was exactly two inches wide and extended one onch longer like 3 inches long of which one inch beyond the intersection and an extra inch longer the opposite length. he lifted it and heard a metalic scraping as its chain dragged on the ground. so he put the chain over his head and felt the moist metal hit his chest... and drop down his shirt! the chain was broken... it continued down his right pants leg and clinked on the ground so he lifted it again. he gripped it in his fist. as he moved forward the moist cross felt warmer... not the warmth of the palm but a miraculous warmth. what did it mean? suddenly it felt VERY hot and a pale cloud appeared he could see a transparent ghost! just a bit opaque and the shock of a ghost in the form of a man combined with the heat caused him to drop the cross. then the pale ghost vanished. safe he raised the cross with his fingers... and as he wrapped his hand around it so it would not fall again he again saw the ghost and started to speak with it. the ghost told the story of its death in a battle between muslims and christians when a muslim boat brought warriors to the balkan peninsula. when he died he was prevented from entering heaven and hell to stay on earth and do a mission as a ghost. the ghost pointed abe to the exit so abe went along a tunnel. he heard the sound of tiny thin streams flowing down the cave wall. when the floor dipped down his foot "splashd" in a puddle so he stopd. did the ghost fool him? he raised the miracle cross and called "ghost of muhamed". the ex-prophet was forced to submit to God and came.
the ghost confessed tricking the christian because he still hated christians despite his mission to undo his false teachings called islam, so he had pointed to the puddle as a mean but harmless prank. now ghost led abe the correct direction... but a fox blockd the cave. abe waved the miracle cross so the fox floated away leading them to the exit. the ghost also exited and began its mission to teach christians that the detail in quran that the book of jesus is good is correct but his other teachers were just "intended to pull the pagans to one god" but he must undo the contents of his false teachings. abe pointed out that christians already believe and he would accomplish his mission if he would appear to muslims... they could not kill him since he is a ghost and his message would match that section of quran so some would reject the false parts.
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