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In reading your comments I see a differentiation between Christian, and "true to life characters" and Christian and "true to life" readers.  After 25 yrs in law enforcement, as a Christian, it may be unusual to find officers that do not indulge in profanity, but they do indeed exist.  Police are also victims of profiling.  There is also a vast difference in the occasional slip, and using profanity as your daily language.  Dan Calibrisi (sp) a conservative blogger as well as Christian writer has recently re-written his early novels without the "worldly" language, giving his readers the option of with or without.  I prefer to build characters who who do not use bad language but I realize it can be hard.  What would Jesus do?  Mike

Omnipotence and omniscience also contains the choice not to act while knowing what will happen.  Sin is separation from the Holiness of God.  Free will humans have a choice to walk with God and enjoy peace with God, and the peace of God.  Rejection of God's plan involves knowing that God wants your repentance and walk with Him not as a ruler but because He loves you.  Rejecting that plan is inviting separation from Him for this life and for the life to follow.  It is true that when we accept or reject God could say "I knew that", but we still made that choice, He did not dictate it.  Mike

Eph. 6 11, and following;  Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.…

The simple answer is free will.  God has always allowed man to practice free will since Adam.  Can murderers be forgiven.  Sin is sin to God, He cannot look on it in any form.  That is why Jesus came an died for our sins, a sacrifice acceptable for all sin.  If one sin can be covered by Jesus sacrifice then all sins are covered.  Salvation does not take the gravity of the sin into account, but only the purity of the sacrifice.  True repentance is the key to coming under the sacrifice of Jesus.  Repentance means to do an about face and walk away from sin, and toward Jesus.  God recognizes all who truly repent and follow Christ.  Paul the apostle could have been classified as a serial killer before his transformation.  If God removed all evil from the world He would be like a child playing with toys.  He is an all powerful benevolent Father who loves His children and has provided a way past the sin that those children have chosen.  We are all evil, absent the Holy Spirit, and are capable of heinous crimes.  Only by His Blood are we healed and welcomed back into the family of Christ.  God bless you for writing something that brings up such questions.  Remember if there was no war to be fought, why would we need His armor.  Mike

Allen, May I share this on my FB page?

Research?  I prefer reflections of a Redneck.

My name is Mike, I am retired from the Houston Tx. Fire Department.  I served 20 yrs and 8 mo. total. 6 yrs fighting fires and driving ladder trucks, and 14 yrs as an Arson Investigator, I retired as a Senior Investigator in charge of a group of 10 plain clothed peace officers who determined the cause of fires and then followed the investigation to arrest and prosecution.  I have been involved in management of corporate security as executive body guard, court bailiff, and plain clothes security manager for Texas Children's Hospital.  I would be glad to help with any fire or law enforcement questions if I can.  Thanks for having me. Mike

Thanks again for the invite.  I thought your message said chop shop, must be from working stolen auto fires and thefts. LOL

Thanks SolN, I am already learning.

Harrison wasn't quite sure what else to do, so he followed her last instruction.

Mitchell was still asleep, curled up on the couch with a blanket draped over him. Harrison wondered if he had done that himself, or if Glimmer had somehow covered him as he slept.

While he waited for her to do whatever she needed to do just then, he paced and tried to reorganize his thoughts.
In a little over an hour, he and Mitchell would be raspberry jam, and Glimmer would be inconsolably pissed.

Five minutes later, she came flitting back into the car.
"Well," she said, "I was wrong about one thing. If we hit that door, I'm dead as a dishrag."

Harrison was not sure what the appropriate response to that might be. "Where were you?" he tried.

"Milwaukee," she said. "We have a problem."

Harrison was stunned. "What? How fast can you fly?"

"Pretty fast," she said. "Listen, if we can't get this worm thingy stopped, we are seriously screwed."

Harrison felt a moment of head-rush vertigo. He raised his hands slightly to balance himself. "Wait," he said. "Are you telling me that you could have flown to Chicago any time—

"She snapped her fingers in his face. It sounded like a rifle shot. "FOCUS! The tunnel is magicked up! This is a major problem!"
 
Harrison felt sweat building on his forehead. He imagined he was probably getting pale. "Magicked up? What the hell does that mean?"

"I mean there's a spell in the tunnel, right in front of the door. You can see it shimmering. I'm pretty sure it's some variation on a shield curse, which pretty much means that if we make contact with it, we're toast. The worst part is, we won't even have to hit it all that hard."

She was talking quickly, though with relative calm. "So the bottom line is we either need to find a way off this beast or find a way to stop it."