Piers, Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality 06 by Piers Anthony

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Chapter 9 - HELL

"What now?" he asked Lilah, after a suitable orgy of celebration over his sudden fortune.

"Now You must establish Your mastery over Hell."

"Isn't that automatic, now that I have the Office of the Incarnation of Evil?"

She shook her head in negation. "You have dispatched Lucifer; You have not proved You can fill his boots."

"Oh? What happens if I don't prove it?"

"You have a thirty-day grace period. If in that time You do not demonstrate Your fitness for the Office, You will be dispatched to that fate Lucifer intended for You, and he will be restored as Incarnation of Evil, unless some truly evil mortal preempts the Office first."

Parry was abruptly serious. "You knew this-yet you supported me?"

"A demoness can be a fool; that is one of her few similarities to mortal souls. When I came to love You, I could do no other. Thus I did not warn Lord Lucifer of his danger."

"His danger?"

"He could not banish You to Hell without first separating You from the soul with which You are bound.

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know but may on occasion forget."

"The soul with which-" Parry repeated blankly. Then it came to him. "Jolie!"

"In the drop of blood on your wrist," she agreed.

"But she went to Heaven long ago, didn't she? Once you made it impossible for her to be with me?"

"No, my Lord. She merely retreated into her drop and slept. She cannot leave You until her onus is abated-and because she is in balance, she cannot be relegated to either Hell or-"

"Say it. Say any word you need, while you serve me."

"Heaven. She must remain with You, until her balance is changed. She is with You now, though she cannot manifest."

"She is not suffering?" he asked anxiously.

"No, my Lord. She knows nothing now, and will not until she wakes again, which may be only when You retire."

Parry was relieved. "And her invisible presence caused Lucifer's spell to bounce?"

"Your spell did that, my Lord. But Lucifer knew of Your spell, and was contemptuous of its feeble power against the magnitude of his magic. But no amount of magic could send Your wife to Hell with You, so your spell assumed far more force than Lucifer reckoned."

"Like an iron bar hidden in a loaf of bread," he agreed.

"Yes, my Lord. Had I warned him, he would have severed Your hand first, thrown it away, then banished You with his magic."

"But she was with me in Hell when we visited. How-?"

"That was not the same. You may go to Hell of Your own volition, and she may travel with You, because that is not damnation. But she cannot be damned eternally. Lucifer inadvertently tried to do that."

And Lilah had known. "So I owe my salvation-" He paused, reconsidering. "My present situation to Jolie-and to you. What an unlikely collaboration!"

"True, my Lord.

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