" Cain was facing quite the predicament.

Nine years had passed of the allotted ten he and his brother has given themselves until they presented their offerings before God.

Unfortunately for Cain there had been a vicious spell of bad weather each and every year and always within the time slot he had dedicated toward a harvest!

For the first two years there has been storms and all of his crops and blown away with the wind.

For the third year there had been a heat wave and all of his fruits had shriveled into unnatural and inedible forms.

For the fourth and fifth year there has been monsoons and all of his harvest had been waterlogged and in no way salvageable.

On the sixth year a wildfire had trekked across the carefully cultivated land and he had been left only with fading ashes.

For the seventh year his crops refused to grow and then an earthquake had forced him to relocate his crops and therefore receive nothing. The eighth year had had him find that the new land was also prone to unnatural weather as a storm has swept across it on the very day he planned to harvest.

This year, this last year was his very last chance. He couldn't even use the produce he had gathered from the forest as it had been stolen each year, leaving only three hide and a single bowl of berries for him.

For a moment Cain contemplated giving up, asking his brother for help, but no! He was the older sibling and he had bothered his brother enough with the abnormal weather that he often experience, he himself would face his penalty for breaking a promise he had made with God - as was his due.

Soon the day that the brothers had arranged to give their lord their gifts arrived.

Their lord rested in a nearby field and the two brothers approached together.

Behind him Abel dragged a large cart that he had made himself, filled with all manner of animal produce.

Next to his brother Cain dragged his feet, his head lowered in perceived defeat and a grown marrying his face. On his back he carried a simple large palm leaf, secured within were all of his offerings to his lord. He recognised their meagre nature and was disappointed in himself, guilty with his apparent failure to provide for the one being he cared for the most, next to his brother of course.

Soon they reached their destination and the Lord looked with favor upon Abel and his offering. But on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry - because he had tried, tried so very hard, would no one acknowledge that? - and his face was downcast.

Then, suddenly, the Lord said to Cain, [ "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it." ]

Cain was confused, he did not understand what his lord was asking of him. But Abel did, and so Abel stepped back, squaring his shoulders as he did so,

[ "Cain, let's go out to the fields," ]

And Cain followed whilst God simply watched on.