"Help
me," Lucifer gasped and held out his arms toward the people behind the
veil but they were just staring at him. Then he noticed the weapons in they
were holding. "Please, please," he held up his hands in the universal
sign of surrender, "I mean no harm. Just help me."
"It’s a trick,"
Persephone warned in a hiss. "He’s a liar."
Eve looked to Gabriel
and the two passed a silent nod before they looked at Persephone and spoke in
unison; "He never lies."
Then Eve finished their
share thought, "The Truth has always been his weapon."
Those words made the
sight of Lucifer Morningstar in his current desperate state even harder to
take.
Eve stepped forward to
stand just on the side of the veil, "Lucifer, what are you doing here?"
She asked in a soft voice.
The sound of his name
confused him as he tried to focus on the sight of the woman before him, "You
know me? Please help me. Let me in. Please. I will do anything you want."
The fact that he did
not recognize her face was understandable given his condition but still his failure
brought a tinge of pain to her heart. "Be quiet and listen, we don’t have
much time. If you cross the veil, if you come in here, no harm will come to you
so long as you do none, but you can never leave again. You will spend all of
eternity here. With us. Do you understand?"
No, he really didn’t
understand her words. All he did understand was that he could not spend another
night out here in the cold wasteland. He could not take another second of being
hungry, thirsty, and in pain. "Please let me in." Was all he could
manage to beg.
Eve stepped back from
the veil, "Come in, Lucifer, come in and be welcome but do not ever betray
us."
Lucifer stumbled
through the veil with no time to spare before full sunrise. He fell to his
knees and looked up at his savior through dazed eyes, "Thank you," he
whispered with all sincerity just before he passed out at her feet.
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