Rahab's heart lept into her throat when she opened the door and saw Crawly standing on the other side. She had always associated Crawly with the change in her life that had to lead her to being happy with a beautiful family and a loving husband.

"Come in stranger!" She said enthusatically.

Crawly was not here on a friendly mission to say the least but he could use some friendliness especially from the woman who had given it to him all those years ago when she hugged him despite his eyes. Before he knew it he was kneeling on a pillow before a make shift-table. Food was being served but Crawly didn't like eating so he obstained.

"It's honestly just terrible. In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. The man's name was Elimelek, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. Now Elimelek, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband." Rahab said shaking her head sadly.

Crawly had remembered the law about marriaging foreign women. He knew it had been divine work that lead to their destruction. He shook his head though and pretended to be somewhat sympathetic. It was harder for a demon than one might think.

"When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people." But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord's hand has turned against me!" At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her." But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. So the two women went on until they came here to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?" "Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara,because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflictedme; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me." So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning." Rahab continued and around the table the family friends echoed their sympathitic remarks. Crawly honestly was bored he had heard stories like this and honestly was disappointed to see no wine at the table.

"Ruth is honestly such a sweet girl. Cares for that widow all by herself. And without a man around. She even comes out to pick grains where the poor graze on our fields. If you ask me our son Boaz has eyes for her." Salmon continued chuckling into his cup.

"Oh stop Salmon. You will embaress the poor boy."

"Even offered her roasted grains. I tell you Rahab there is a spark between those two."

"Well even if this is true Ruth is still a lovely young woman. I wish more women had her positive attitude and kind spirit."

"Boaz might want to make a move soon." One of the workers raised up.

"Oh really? And why is that?" Salmon said raising an eyebrow.

"I saw Ruth with another man today. That nice fellow with the blonde curls. Soft angel skin. He is the one helping all the kids when the Famine came."

Crawly's heart did that lurching thing again. He couldn't mean-

"Oh, you must mean-oh what was his name again? Adian, Aaron, Raphael,-"

"Aziraphale," Crawly mumbled.

Rahab snapped her fingers. "Oh yes, that's it. Aziraphale such a nice chap."

"He is pretty young too which is why I suggest Boaz get a move on if he wants to snatch up Ruth."

Crawly highly doubted that Aziraphale was trying to start a relationship with a human female but if he was helping a widow and her daughter in law he won't be surprised. However, this meant that he could have an excuse to run into the angel and get him all nervous.

Crawly excused himself and asked for directions to Ruth's place. Someone teased that snake eyes was trying to get a move on Ruth as well but he shrugged this off before proceeding into the night.