Beyond the Veil
“Have you nothing better to do with your time?” Lucifer asked as he waved the angel away with a polite, and obviously manufactured, smile. The old animosities were still in place, which was an odd comfort given how much else has changed. Calar gave me a dirty look and gated out of sight without another word. Daddy Dearest looked back to me after he’d gone. “Still the rebel without a cause, I see.”
“No, I’ve plenty of cause these days. Seems you left some rather large shoes to fill back on Earth....” I really hadn’t expected him to come down in person. It threw me off a bit. This wasn’t how I wanted to start off, but I couldn’t seem to help myself.
He smiled. “Indeed I did, and I hoped you might have grown to fill them by now, but it seems I’ve spit into the wind all these years.” Lucifer came to stand before me, his eyes narrowing, but the smile still clung to his lips. “Good to know I could count on you.”
Fifty years ago, a jibe like that might have had me scrambling to apologize, to make up for being a stupid twit in a world I wanted nothing to do with, but not now.MoreLess
“No, I’ve plenty of cause these days. Seems you left some rather large shoes to fill back on Earth....” I really hadn’t expected him to come down in person. It threw me off a bit. This wasn’t how I wanted to start off, but I couldn’t seem to help myself.
He smiled. “Indeed I did, and I hoped you might have grown to fill them by now, but it seems I’ve spit into the wind all these years.” Lucifer came to stand before me, his eyes narrowing, but the smile still clung to his lips. “Good to know I could count on you.”
Fifty years ago, a jibe like that might have had me scrambling to apologize, to make up for being a stupid twit in a world I wanted nothing to do with, but not now.MoreLess
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