The next morning, Lucifer awoke, refreshed from the sweet sleep he'd had the night before. He turned over in his bed and smiled, glad to see Avan asleep in his own bed. If there was one thing Lucifer cared for more than anything else, it was his brother.
He crept from their room, humming a soft tune to himself as he walked outside into the brilliant morning light. He sat softly on the edge of a cloud and peered down, watching a miracle occur. God was giving life to his latest creation, Adam. Adam was what the angels call humans. In Angelic, human literally means "One who is loved".
Lucifer smiled and kicked his feet a bit, then spread his wings and glided softly around Heaven, humming the tune still and watching as others of his race rose from their beds to greet the morning sun. He sat quietly at the edge of another cloud and watched the birth of Lilith., who was created not of Adam, but of the Earth itself. He smiled at the beauty of such a creature, then stopped to think. Beauty? Angels had no comprehension of such emotions. Nor had they understanding of love and joy. To them, all things were the same...
Lucifer's eyes drew inward a bit and he winced in what could be described as disgust. "...Like puppets...Angels have no emotions...We live the same days over and over again...It's always the same. Nothing ever changes...Because we can't feel like those humans down there...Can we?" His pupils dilated for a moment, then he shook the feeling off and stood. Lucifer stepped from the cloud and dropped to Earth, sitting in the Tree of Life and tender stroking one of the apples, his thoughts drifting back to the day before.
The battle raged on for hours, but finally, it was Lucifer's sword that pierced the Devil's flesh and sent him writhing down to Hell. But now he remembered. A piece of the flesh had stayed upon the blade. It had crept slowly along and up Lucifer's body, then dug itself deeply into his soul without him even noticing.
The Evil was inside him.
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