The Hopeling

Ipsa hates reading human prayers.

Unfortunately, that's the task she's destined to spend an eternity doing.

An angel in the Prayer Reader Department, Ipsa must read a never-ending flood of earthly prayers before delivering them to the mysterious Answering Department. Unlike other prayer readers, Ipsa finds most humans-known as Hopelings in their world-to be whiny, their prayers forgettable.

Until she stumbles on one prayer she's not allowed to read.

That cryptic prayer sparks a connection wit...