Chance Bonner, once a very lucky boy, is depressed. He is nearing fourteen years of age, but his voice is still high and he is still very short. But not small, for he is developing a slight paunch which serves to make him even more depressed. And anxious. He has a mild but persistent curiosity about his birth parents. Not because he needs them. He wants a better idea of how tall he might expect to be. His deepening depression and failing self-esteem have estranged him from his closest friends. He feels isolated and ignored. ...
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Chance Bonner, once a very lucky boy, is depressed. He is nearing fourteen years of age, but his voice is still high and he is still very short. But not small, for he is developing a slight paunch which serves to make him even more depressed. And anxious. He has a mild but persistent curiosity about his birth parents. Not because he needs them. He wants a better idea of how tall he might expect to be. His deepening depression and failing self-esteem have estranged him from his closest friends. He feels isolated and ignored. He has stopped chanting the Buddhist mantra with his mother, who patiently awaits his return to the practice. Chance's situation is ripe for plucking. Ripe for plucking if you are the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven, whose primary mission is to prevent human beings from being all that they can be. He has minions. Many, many minions. He has a crack team working on the human boy, pushing him further and further into a spiral of self-doubt and hopelessness. Just as there are both personal and Universal powers for negative functions, there are powers, or forces, for positive functions. The situation is clear: a battle between positive and negative must be waged and Chance will be in its very center.
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