Lucifer Unchained (Lucas Johnson Urban Fantasy Thrillers Book 4) by Thomas Green

Author:Thomas Green [Green, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

ELENA and her girls didn’t have a transfusion. But they had a needle and a string, with which they sewed my wound and put me onto a semblance of a bed. Lillith sat on a bed near mine, huddled against her knees. She’d cried out all her tears, and now just stared into nowhere.

I focused on regaining strength, re-weaving the aether patterns I used to strengthen my body. We could not spend the night here. With a tired grunt, I sat up on the bed. “We need to move.”

Lillith didn’t react.

I rose, stretched, and then sat next to her, putting my arm over her shoulder. “What’s wrong?”

“The prophecy.”

“I know.” I formed a sad smile.

“And you told me. But I didn’t believe you. At first, I thought that you were the savior who would save the slaves in Ubar through a miracle. You weren’t doing that, so I thought you needed me to guide you to it… and then I read Azrael’s legend. I read every single text twice. By everything the legend says, he is the most powerful man in the world, as you said, the eternal legend who shaped the world into what it is today, the chairman and the founder of the Hand of God.”

“But the miracles aren’t there.”

“Exactly.” She took a long sniff. “When the Holy Land came under an attack, he didn’t fly there and smite the heathens by himself. Instead, he politically arranged raising of armies of multiple nations, which spent months marching there, a third of them died fighting, and then they marched back. And then eight more times.”

I smiled and hugged her tighter. “Is that why you stopped talking about saving everyone?”

“Yes.” She sighed. “After being crowned king, Charlemagne was lazy and drank too much wine. And then he met Azrael. The angel presented himself as a common priest, who was cleaning up the king’s table after one night of drinking. Hung-over, the king started babbling about his grand visions of how he would unify Western Europe, how he would change the world. Azrael told him that no one would follow a drunkard. Embarrassed, the king said the wine was stronger than he was, that he couldn’t help himself. To which Azrael asked him, what made him think he could change the world, if he couldn’t change himself. And Charlemagne understood, stopped drinking, and ended up unifying Western Europe, becoming one of the greatest kings in history.”

“And you thought that if I could free Evelyn, it would be the first step to rescuing the other slaves.”

She hugged her knees tighter. “But you’re not the savior. I am. And I can’t even save myself.”

“Azrael wouldn’t drown in self-pity though.”

“Right!” Lillith wiped her face with the back of her arm.

“Angels are brave.” I let her go and rose. “Come.”

She swiftly arranged her hair with her hand and followed me. Before leaving, I grabbed the bag with ice and the man’s arm. Inside the dome, people ran around, shouting, some crying. Many came here to hide from the fires.

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