Interlude 4
Last Interlude
In the end, it wasn't because of the Floods or the Plagues that resulted in Her being sent into the fiery pits of Hell. Nor was it because of the angel's tortured plights – Netzach's injured wrist, Uriel's retrograding esteem, Ambriel's panic attacks, Camael's wings. It wasn't even because of Her involvement in Samael's fall.
Well, these were all factors which lead to the culmination that left Heaven shaken to its core.
No. In the end, it was all because of an argument between God and His Wife. By then, He knew what She had done. Kemuel – not trusting her own voice to retell all of Her deeds – had written it down in a misleadingly innocent-looking book. It had taken Him far too long to finally reach the end of it.
Even then, He hadn't been able to bring Himself to confront Her, not yet anyway. He knew what He should do: lock Her away in Hell. And unlike His rebellious son, She would not have free reign in that fiery realm. No, She would be treated like the damned souls She so despised. Such was the punishment for defiling His Creation, His children – Their children…
But oh how She had yelled and shouted at Him: "Those little whelps don't even do anything. They just flit around and make annoying racket whenever they feel like it."—"How can you just sit there and act like you care about every single one of them?"—"Pathetic, the lot of them. They don't hold a candle to Samael or even Amenadiel."
Sometimes, when He was truly alone and separate from the rest of Creation, He wondered how it ever came to this. He still remembered the first time They laid eyes on each other. It had been love at first sight. But as He sat quietly watching soulmates interact in their heavens, He thought that maybe what They had felt for each other wasn't truly love at all.
It still broke His heart to lock the door and throw away the key.
—o~O~o—
[Excerpts from the Continued Records of the Silver City, as written by Metatron, the Scribe, and Tzaphkiel, Angel of Knowledge]
... by the time of Lucifer's "vacation" on Earth [refer to Chapter 2]. This, of course, meant that the Free Will granted to us [refer to Chapter 50 in Records of the Silver City] by Our Father greatly impacted our ability to leave Heaven – most accurately in the sense that while we still felt the need to have permission to be on Earth, it was no longer expressly required. In another sense, the angels whose jobs allow for direct contact (albeit under guise) with humans have more leeway as to what the miracle(s) bestowed upon the allotted human(s) entail [see Chapter 27]. And though this may not seem all that significant after several centuries of adjusting to the ambiguous notion of choice, it produces a question: what are we if not Our Father's Children?
To Question Him is to Fall.
That was what we were told after Samael's Rebellion and subsequent Banishment.
But with Free Will, we are allowed to question. In fact, Kemuel once suggested that He wants us to question, that He wants us to act on what we decide is right. And it is in that struggle – of knowing what is right despite millennia of simply being told what is – that the problem persists...
... that while Lucifer is on Earth, we are to avoid the human city, Los Angeles. It was not an Order, but an order nonetheless. However, when Amenadiel lost Faith in Our Father and fell from grace, that order from our elder brother was technically rescended as the seat of authority then passed to Kemuel, who shares it with the rest of the Heavenly Council [refer to Chapter 20 in Records of the Silver City] – the Council which has ever held more respect from the angels than Amenadiel had, despite his status. (It should also be noted that the seat of authority dictates only the angels, not the archangels. Even if the seat of authority could have been held by Michael, the General and Heaven's First Prince...
... as Remiel reported that several other universes followed this path and were wrought with despair. In the eventuality that we could not avoid this naturally, steps were taken to alter our universe's path. Israfel, Zadkiel and Kemuel were key in the plan [refer to Chapter 10], and according to Uriel they accomplished what they were supposed to. Those of Seer's Setting can only conclude that we have become our own universe – separate from that of any other before, though not entirely singular...
A/N: Here's that interlude, as promised.
Last edited: [1/18/2020]
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