Lucifer's Emblem by Sarah Biglow & Molly Zenk

Author:Sarah Biglow & Molly Zenk
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

14

Miryam

“You are such a liar!” I ducked down and yanked my arm free all in one fluid motion. Zuri didn’t even resist me getting free from her Me-Strong-You-Weak game. “You expect me to believe Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, has time to train you to fight when your random Archangel Dad doesn’t? And when exactly did this training sesh, like, happen? Everyone gets their letters when they’re twelve and if you were at the Middle East campus you were nowhere near the Gates to Hell. I hear they’re in, like Jersey by the way.”

“Not everything is in Jersey.” Zuri rubbed her arm as if it were her and not me that had just escaped from an arm lock. “Except this time, you’re correct. The main Gate is on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge.”

I bounced on my toes and struggled to not laugh in her face. Since that would be mean. I may be a lot of things, but I’m not mean. “Prove it.”

Zuri’s eyes widened. “Prove the Gate to Hell is in Jersey? You wouldn’t be able to cross into Hell any more than a Fallen or Demon could go to Heaven. You should know that.” She crossed her arms over her chest. “Or were you slacking off when that was covered in Angelic History?”

I balled my hands into fists at my sides. “I’m not a slacker.”

“Prove it.”

I smiled. “I see what you did there. You turned my own words against me. Trying to get me to forget to call you out on your lies.” I twisted my hair around my index finger, thinking. “You know what? I don’t care. You can play your little Lucifer is my BFF game all you want. Being satanic is not going to get Dad to change your room assignment.”

“Lucifer and Satan are two separate beings,” she said as if it should be automatic knowledge. “Satan and the Devil are the same.”

“Do you know him too?”

“Them. Get your gender pronouns right. You wouldn’t last five seconds in Hell.” Zuri stalked toward our dorm room. She at least seemed to have figured out where that was in the school. I followed.

“Maybe I can just ask Lucifer for a sword fighting lesson.”

Zuri whirled to face me, her expression practically murderous. She grabbed my neck and pushed me back up against the wall. “Look, little girl, I’m done with your bullshit. Believe me or don’t believe me. I don’t care. Just remember when you’re insulting the Ruler of Hell, he’s an archangel, too—just like your precious daddy. Show some respect.”

“Lucifer is Fallen,” I croaked, not able to stop myself from laughing. It was a wheezy, weird laugh, but still a laugh. “He lost any and all rights to call himself an archangel after he started the War in Heaven.”

I laughed again. This wasn’t even funny. Zuri could probably snap my neck like a twig, but at the same time, she was the only one who had ever stood up to me. This was new and, okay, maybe a little bit exciting.

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