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She stepped through the wall like before, entering the past from the distant future. Her comfortable apartment became an old office in an old building in the capital of an old nation. Yesterday had a distinct aroma.

"What are you doing here?" The leader asked, surprised at her reappearance. At least this time she had come through on purpose, yet still dressed too casually. 

"I need a hero," she said.

He winced. He made a terrible hero.

"Not you," she explained.

"Oh."

He drew a long, reluctant breath, then asked, "Why do you need a hero?"

"Something unexpected has happened."

"So you came to the past to look for a hero?" He understood immediately her problem was fear and said, "Perfect love casts out all fear." 

He wasn't sure how he knew that until she reminded him it's in the Bible. "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:18."

He must have read it when he was a child.

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6," she said. 

He nodded. 

She was the one who was trained up, but here she was needing to be reminded. 

He didn't make such a terrible hero afterall.