Decalogue: A Novel of the Beginning: Book 10 of the Kristen-Seraphim Saga

Do not love the dead. Do not hate the living. For life and world are one thing, and you are both, present in the second but the fullest presence of the first.

Now the jaguar stood up and swaggered her tail back and forth. "Some of you might imagine that my speaking with you is a miraculous thing, or the work of an occult force. It is neither. It's simply our new friend's technology, discovered and sharpened in the same way that we make better cars than we used to; better, safer, more energy...