Joab's Pagiel | Part 5

Back to Joab.

Preparation came fast and without ceremony. One day Joab was a farmer’s son standing watch at the wall; the next, he was in training before dawn, boots in the dirt, learning how to move, how to speak, how not to hesitate when things went wrong.

They taught him procedure before force. How to identify threats without escalating them. How to hold a perimeter. How to keep his voice steady when adrenaline tried to take over. He learned when to step forward—and when to stay still and let the situation collapse on its own.

The uniform followed soon after.

Once he was sworn in, the change was immediate. The badge wasn’t about power. It was about restraint. About lines that could not be crossed.

There were two reasons he became a police officer.

First, the training. These were not ordinary criminals. These were organized extremists who wanted blood. Joab needed to know how to handle that kind of threat without turning into the thing he was fighting.

Second, legality.

Without official authority, every act of defense could be twisted into vigilantism. Every intervention could become an arrest. The badge made the difference between protection and persecution.

It meant that when Joab stepped in front of someone, he wasn’t acting alone.

Joab was acting for the town.

This Amish community was a New Order Amish group.

Old Order Amish stick to very traditional Amish ways: strict technology limits (no phones in the home, no electricity, horse-and-buggy transport), older school of thought on salvation, and very conservative practices rooted in long-standing custom.

New Order Amish split from them in the mid-20th century and tend to be more open to limited modern conveniences (like phones in the home, tractors, some electricity), have formal Sunday school and Bible study, emphasize personal faith and assurance of salvation, and often prohibit alcohol and tobacco, while still living plainly and using horse-and-buggy transport.

To clarify, Old Order Amish typically do not teach that a person can be sure they are saved and going to heaven; they focus on living obediently within church rules and often talk about hoping to make it to heaven rather than being certain. Many lean toward a works-oriented view where obedience and community life are central.

New Order Amish, on the other hand, teach salvation by grace through faith and encourage talking about being “born again” and having assurance of salvation — emphasizing a personal relationship with Jesus and clear confidence in being saved.

Yes, there are two sects of the Amish Religion. One is called "New Order Amish" and the older one is called "Old Order Amish."

When Joab was at home at night, leaving his 8 hour post to the next guy up named Levi Strubhar, Joab began to cry in hs bedroom because today was very hard, and he began to think that he was fated to die in the line of duty.

The KKK tried to invade the edges of the group, and brought guns, leading to Joab shooting & killing 14 out of 16 attackers. Joab was horrified at what he'd done, and even felt a huge sense of guilt.

When Joab returned home, he broke down. The attack had forced him to confront what he believed was his fate.He had never expected to die naturally. The genetically modified children were never meant to grow old.

Their futures had always been described the same way: no death by sickness, not by age, not by weakness. Because aging up unto elderhood and the ease of gaining a disease had been engineered out of them, it was assumed their deaths could only come through violence or some other harsh, unnatural end.Their bodies had been edited in vitro, while they were still embryos.

Aging was removed. Disease was removed. Fatigue, genetic defects, muscle failure—even death through old age—were cut away strand by strand. Then they were placed back into their mothers’ wombs and carried like any other child.

They were built to survive nearly everything except what other people might do to them—or sudden disasters like falling from cliffs or car crashes.Joab covered his face and cried, not because he was weak, but because he believed death still awaited everyone under the biblical curse.

If that curse could no longer take the peaceful form of dying from old age, then it would come in brutal ways instead. To him, there was no gentle ending left—only violence, accidents, or catastrophe.What truly broke him was the thought that this was how his life would end.

The KKK had tried repeatedly to kill the united front, and this time had been no different. Though he had survived, the attempt convinced him that death was circling closer. If God’s curse could not claim him quietly, Joab believed it would do so violently—and that realization finally made him collapse into tears.

It would have been different if he hadn’t been taught that death was inevitable. But he had been raised to believe that death always comes, no matter what, because of the curse. So he assumed it would find him eventually—and he feared that it would be forced to take him in some cruel, Final Destination–style way.

Joab didn't feel like he was gonna get any comfort, so he decided to just pray and say, "Father God, I might get shot in the head as my form of death in old age. It'd be extremely painful... I don't want it, but that's the only way in my opinion for me to die of old age... Um... I don't want to say 'In Jesus' Name, Amen' because it may occur..." And this was his prayer to God.

God was stunned by his... Idea of death. In Joab's mind, the bullet would blow up his brain, and thus end him brutally in a way he never wanted, but he thinks he would just be disconnected from the body. He always cried about how this way would not let him get saved, though.

He's not suicidal. God tells him "That's not gonna be what kills you." Which excited Joab, but then stressed him out as he assumed he'd go out final destination style. Final Destination Style isn't fun.

God told him "I'll protect you from death," And this calmed Joab.

When Joab went outside, the dogs were confused by his lack of scent. Genetically modified children had no scent, absolutely no bodily odor caused by anything from their own bodies. Joab ran to Pagiel's house that night, he didn't need a horse or carriage because he had super speed.

He was naturally ripped, and didn't even need exercise to accomplish it. He was tall, had incredible stamina, very handsome, very intelligent, a beautiful singing voice, and was trained to be very kind.

Joab had very long hair, he's very tall, about 8 '1 " in height, and was considered to have a very nice body and muscle tone. The scientists gave him a body type to prevent him from easily gaining weight.

To Be Continued...