The Prison of the Angels by Janine Ashbless

Author:Janine Ashbless [Ashbless, Janine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sinful Press
Published: 2017-11-30T18:00:00+00:00

11

ACHILL

He is the only thing visible in the darkness; a serpent thicker than my own leg, glowing like heated gold. He’s between my thighs and knotted about my calves; he circles my torso and nestles between my bare breasts. My spine is arched and my ribs compressed, but I clasp his neck between my hands and stare into his malachite eyes. His smooth scales rub my bare skin, and I feel the waves of muscle flowing beneath. I am the staff bearing aloft the brazen snake Nehushtan. I am the World Tree, Yggdrasil, holding the universe aloft. I am an ape crushed in a python’s embrace.

I relish the pressure. It feels good between my legs.

“What happened, Samyaza? Tell me!”

“Let me go. Let me go.” He writhes, his every motion squeezing me. “Let me die!”

“What did you do? We were trying to free you!”

“And I told you, you must not. I told you!”

“Because Ragnarok?” I am near breathless because of his coils constricting me as we wrestle, but I’m not afraid of him.

“Ragnarok. Armageddon. Call it what you like. The end.”

“So you thought you’d kill yourself instead? Coward!”

“Let me die!”

“You don’t want to be free?”

“Leave me in darkness!”

“Did you like what they were doing to you under that mountain? You flake—you’re the one who started all this. You led the Fall of the angels. You can’t give up! You will fight!”

“Do not mock me! I knew. I saw. From the beginning. It is all necessary. If we are freed there is a second War in Heaven.”

“I don’t believe that’s inevitable. You’re the smart one—the one with vision, Azazel said that. So find a goddamn solution! You have to help us!”

“There cannot be peace between the Host and the Fallen.”

“Yes there can. Make them. If humans can learn to keep the peace, then you lot can too.”

“You expect Heaven to compromise?”

“It’s done nothing but compromise for the entire history of humanity. Every evil left unstopped; every atrocity unpunished. So, yes, it’ll compromise.”

“Daughter of Earth, you don’t understand. You think you want peace? But if we are free then you become slaves. To us and to our children.”

Slaves, concubines, pets.

I guess I’m slow on the uptake. “But what about your brother Watchers? Are you just going to abandon them in prison?”

“It is the sacrifice we make for your sake. For all Mankind.”

“What?” I force his head down. “Did they get the memo? When did they agree to that?”

“It is necessary.”

“Says who?”

“I knew.”

“That’s not your choice! You don’t get to drag other people down when you sacrifice yourself!”

“It was my choice. I made it a long time ago.”

“For God’s sake, Samyaza!”

“For your sake.”

I catch my breath. “Oh, no. Please don’t. You can’t mean it…” The horrible truth finally dawns on me. “Azazel; Penemuel. You really did sell them out.” I didn’t just mean the things with the ravens and the nets. “You utter piece of shit. You sold them out seventy thousand years ago!”

When you persuaded them to start interbreeding with human beings.

When you started your eugenics program.

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