Oh, I'm glad you liked that paragraph... I was writing the story in a fairly linear fashion, when I got stuck (trying to get Doyle through that first doorway into the passage - it wasn't that he didn't want to go, I just couldn't find the words for how) so I jumped ahead and tried something different... that paragraph was the result & I was very happy with it.

I, too, had wanted to know what happened after Gods and Goddesses, so this is very welcome.

You and a bunch of others, it seems! See my comments to msmoat and myrebel cat.

Thank you!