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“Azriel is furious.”
Okay—not the best way to start the meeting. Learning that one of the first three angels ever created was not mad, but furious, was a little bit more than scary.
Sariel counted the list off on his fingers. “Two Mothers found, Lucius bond with the Queen, her loyalty to him, and the defection of a substantial number of angels.”
“And you’re certain he knows all these things,” my mom asked, holding on to hope. I felt the dread building in the pit of my stomach.
“Not the circumstances of how the Mothers were found, but the other, yes, I am certain.” Sariel answered. “He looked for you, hoping to find you as a child, when your strength would have been at its weakest. You are an adult, with a beloved angel by your side. He is unsure of just how powerful you are.” Sariel went on, as he tried to make me see the silver lining.
“I have no control over the powers I have. Last night I was scared to death.” Lucius grabbed my hand and calm washed over me like a cool breeze.
Sariel turned his attention to Lucius. “He fears Lucius as well, having been the greatest of Authorities and a trusted angel of the Almighty’s. He knew that banishing him from heaven did not make him a fallen. He had not wronged or broken any laws or ordinances. Azriel overstepped his boundaries.”
I was still not convinced, even with Sariel’s certainty. There was too much unknown: my powers and lack of control of them, those of Amara and my other sisters, if they even had any. I was deep in thought and realized that all conversation had stopped and everyone was looking at me.
“I’m sorry what?” I asked, giving the meeting my full attention again.
“With no way of knowing how your powers work you have the ability to destroy everything.”
“What do you mean everything,” I asked, knowing full well what he meant.
“If you are as powerful as the prophecy proclaims you can destroy everything; the earth, its realms; the universe that holds it all.”
We all sat around and let the words sink in. It was Amara who broke the uncomfortable silence.
“Why would the Almighty do this? Give one person or any number of people the ability to destroy what he made.”
“Earth and its universe was not the first created, nor the last. Once all is created the Almighty leaves, moving on to create the next universe. Only two angels are Its constant companions. The Almighty has returned only once to a universe after its creation—ours, to rid it of the nephilim children fathered by angels. The half human, half angel children were killed and their fathers bound in darkness until the rapture, to suffer until the end of this earth’s time. The prophecy of the Mothers did not exist until after this time, to guarantee that the Great Creator would not have to return.”
“Why?” I asked.
Sariel speech was mindboggling. Worst in some way than the news of me having the ability to accidently destroy the universe.
“The why was not shared with us,” Lucius said, taking my hand. Outwardly I was doing my mom proud with my calm exterior, on the inside I was a wreck. There was no way I could keep my rattled emotions from my angel.
“The Watchers rebelled, along with two of the three Seraphim. The Great Creator spared the world, all heavenly angels and fae, as they’d kept their promise to stay out of the affairs of humans.”
“So our world was given a second chance,” Amara said and stood up. “My sisters and I are to take over all the realms in this universe if something happened but whatever it is couldn’t have anything to do with Azriel. His plan was to find and destroy us after we were born. The fact that we were born at all says that something bigger is about to happen.”
“Yes,” Lucius and Sariel said together and then were silent.
“But we don’t know what that is.” Sariel said.
Chapter 10: Enid and Amala