See translations for Angelic at the end of the Chapter
The next day Jaenelle was impatient to hear a report from Azazeal, Lucifer and Daemon, but managed to tame her enthusiasm until late morning for the meeting they had arraigned the night before. Jaenelle asked the whole Coven to attend in case they had any ideas to share once Azazeal had given his assessment.
Azazeal and Cassie were the last to arrive in the bustling drawing room and as Cassie left Azazeal's side to join the audience with a slight blush on her face and he turned to Lucifer in bemusement. Only another angel would have been able to pick up on exactly what was on his mind.
"Don't worry," Lucifer said in hushed tones, "She'll talk to Elizabeth and I've already broken her in, so to speak."
Azazeal nodded but looked to be suppressing a silly smile and Lucifer gave him an impatient look.
"I…uh…"
"Oh, just tell me," Lucifer admonished.
"I called her Thila-Quasahi and…Oee-Tol."
"Yeah, and?"
"And Mad-Im."
"Oh, nice, I bet that went over well," Lucifer laughed.
"It's not funny!"
"Oh, sure it is, not while your doing it, but later on it's hilarious."
Azazeal just scowled.
"Like I said, Elizabeth will put things in perspective for her. Besides, try proclaiming Mo-Mar Carina in the throws of adoration and then later decide that an appropriate endearment in your moments of weakness is Carina Pir. That's a fun one! It gets a blush out of her every time. Elonusahe went over splendidly, as well!"
Azazeal was now suppressing laugher of his own.
"Besides, you've heard what our little host is calling me now haven't you?"
Azazeal shook his head.
"Ipzi-Adna-Tilb."
At this Azazeal really did break out in quiet laugher.
"See, I told you it's all uproariously funny! And no matter how inappropriate the Ladies think it is, we just can't help it. So let El strike me down if He wants, but I've found Na Hoath."
At this Azazeal nodded solemnly, trying to shake off the amusement, but was glad that Lucifer had distracted him.
Azazeal turned towards Jaenelle and the others, getting their attention with his piercing eyes, and then he began.
"First," he said, "Let me start by explaining what we did. Lucifer," and he gestured over his right shoulder at him, "used his power of…well…temptation, to bring out the thoughts and feelings of cruelty that Jaenelle and Daemon described to us and then he directed Daemon and myself to these individuals."
The whole room nodded in understanding.
"Then Daemon and I tested various methods of persuasion to determine how best to suppress these feelings and ideas. It is important to note, however, that as in our own world, we cannot eradicate these tendencies. To do so would ultimately mean changing the very nature of the Blood. You will always be a wild and dangerous race and you will always live in fear of those stronger than you. We are not targeting rage, desire, or aggression. We are looking for a specific kind of hunger for violence, one that is twisted by the craving to humiliate and control."
Again came the nod of understanding.
"We found that in the young and those with only a small taste of it, either Daemon or I can easily make them see how horrifying it really is using…our differing forms of persuasion."
However," he continued, "For those who truly enjoy it, who have started to take real pleasure from the suffering of others, the problem is that, unlike our world, you have no God, no ultimate judge, whom you fear or at least respect. In our world, it is simple to give someone like this a divine experience and change their life forever. But in your world, there is no authority to call upon, they don't even fear Witch or what Saetan could do to them in Hell, because they don't believe."
There was a thoughtful silence that went on for some time before Karla asked, "What about Mother Night?"
Azazeal gave her and Jaenelle a questioning look.
"Mother Night," Jaenelle repeated, "What if she really existed, what if we conjured her up and gave her a purpose. What if she punished those who forsake the Blood laws and Daemon, Saetan and I could merely be her invisible hands at work?"
"That would scare the shit out of people," Lucivar growled happily, "And what about me? I can be an invisible hand!"
Azazeal considered the notion, "It may work and if there's one thing I'm good at," he said smoothly, "it's creating a nice myth!"
Later when the group had broken up into smaller groups to share their ideas and relax, Lucivar caught Lucifer whispering to a wide-eyed Marion. He tapped Daemon on the shoulder and they shared a wry smile before he went over to save his wife.
"And what exactly is it so important that you sharing it with my wife in such a low voice?"
"You'll find out soon enough," Lucifer said with a mischievous smile and Marion did an impressive job imitating him. So much so that a wave of desire rolled through Lucivar with uncomfortable intensity and then he found himself being lead away from his own wife by Lucifer. He glanced down and the hand that was pulling him away and saw the gleam of one of Lucifer's wedding bracelets from under his sleeve.
"How's the protecting going?" Lucivar asked with a hint of a teacher's self-importance, "There's no more dropping her off mountain tops and forgetting her moon times, is there?"
Lucifer gave him an arrogant look, "I've learned quite a few tricks from the guardian angels to add to your lessons. She's well taken care of, don't you worry about that."
"You don't have to be so nasty about it," Lucivar said wrenching his arm out of Lucifer's tightening grasp and feeling a surge of anger.
"I apologize," Lucifer said, his expression softening, "I get testy when I remember how foolish I used to be about her safety."
Lucivar only nodded.
Lucifer was then snatched away from Lucivar by Azazeal with uncharacteristic rudeness.
Lucivar watched as they had a brief discussion and then placed themselves side by side near Cassie and Elizabeth and waited for them to turn around. When they did, both Azazeal and Lucifer graced them with a strangely boyish smiles.
Lucivar watched as Lucifer shouldered Azazeal, encouraging him to speak for the both of them, and then receive a blistering glare from Azazeal before he turned back to the Ladies with his smile restored.
"We miss the kids," Azazeal announced.
"Well, they're hardly kids any more," Cassie said.
"Irrelevant," Lucifer declared, "We want to see them."
Cassie could not help but find this cute and in fact, she and Elizabeth had been discussing the same feelings. Perhaps they were all connected in this, it was hard to tell sometimes if it was the angels picking up on their feelings or the girls being influenced by the angels but it hardly mattered in the end.
"We've been thinking the same thing, actually," Elizabeth said, "And we also mentioned to Jaenelle that more angels might make this a bit easier so…"
"Excellent!" Lucifer exclaimed.
"…we will probably cut our visit here short and arrange a meeting in our world for Jaenelle with a select group of angels. We'll be back here soon, of course, so there's no sense in delaying our project any longer."
So the rest of the day was spent showing their guests a few last interesting things before letting them get their things together to leave the next morning.
After breakfast the next day, the whole Coven turned out to say their good byes as many of them would not be around when Cassie, Elizabeth, and their angels returned. A few burgeoning friendships had been formed so the leave taking was not merely formal.
As Cassie and Elizabeth made their round of hugs, Azazeal and Lucifer watched with indulgent smiles, but made no attempt to approach anyone. The Blood were far more tactile towards each other than the angels were, but their open affection towards Cassie and Elizabeth had made the Coven forget that. In this social situation, however, their reluctance to touch anyone without a specific purpose, such as to heal or to move that person, made them appear strange. Everyone understood, they had noticed the same thing when they arrived, but it reminded them of how different they were.
Jaenelle, however, grabbed Azazeal and hugged him breathless, which he bore patiently. She then flung herself into Lucifer's arms, who obligingly caught her but regarded her with amused confusion.
"Thank you both so much!" She said earnestly.
"We haven't succeeded yet," Azazeal said, practically.
"But we will, I know we will." To which they angels only shrugged.
Before they left, among the other advice that Lucifer felt obliged to bestow upon people, he felt the need to corner Daemon and inform him that, "You're going to rut again soon."
"That's not possible, it's only been…"
"Trust me, it's coming. And, by the way, I told Jaenelle about a few things she should try out before then, you know, things to further your…re-education in the bedroom."
"Why would you do that?"
"That's what she asked," Lucifer said in honest bafflement at the coincidence, "But I explained and I think she gets it."
Daemon couldn't decide if he should kill Lucifer or just faint from the knee-buckling sense of desire mixed with dread that Lucifer's words created. Both options had their appeal, but instead he just put his fingers to his temple and tried to forget about it altogether.
Thila-Quasahi: Source of Bliss
Oee-Tol: Ecstasy of Everything
Mad-Im: Expressing God
Mo-Mar Carina: Be Crowned in Glory
Carina Pir: Glorious Brightness
Elonusahe: Exalted In Power
Ipzi-Adna-Tilb: Bends Into Obedience for Her
El: God
Na: I
Hoath: Worship
As before I have taken these words from an Enochian dictionary. Some words have been slightly modified for simplicity. In my imagination, angelic does not always have all of the verb tenses and words that we have. For instance in my angelic, Na would mean 'I, I am, me, my, myself, mine', while De means 'you, your, yours, yourself' and so on. Also Hoath means 'worship, worshipper, worshipping,' etc. so that the meaning behind the actual sound becomes more important. Also some words such as 'of, to, in, with, for' or even 'who, whose, you, your' may not always be used, again stressing the importance of what the speaker is trying to express rather than the sounds made.
Therefore, Na Hoath could mean "I worship" or "I am your worshipper" but in this chapter would mean something more along the lines of "The one who I worship" or "Whose worshipper I am."