On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was exactly 600 years old, it began to rain. In mighty torrents. In time and space. Forty days and forty nights, until the waters rose to a level twenty-two feet above the highest mountain peaks. Every bird, every animal, every human outside the ark was destroyed.
This was no accident. Thatit happened, and when it happened and how it happened was just as God the Creator (now turned Destroyer) planned it.
