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"I only ask because it see people’s heads off Beating up people in bars Blowing up whole shopping districts Shooting people on the street in the middle of the day It sounds terribly fun to me The kind of fun that I’d expect to appeal to so people off the street your idea of fun? God gave you wings, so you have an everlasting get-out-of-jail-free card You can do anything you want because everything you do is holy Is that it?"
"Yes As ayour arels toholy water? I ood and dedicated ood What are you willing to die for?"
"To kill the people I ca the way"
"What if I told you that I could help you find what and who you’re looking for?"
"I wouldn’t believe you"
"Why?"
"Because I rode here with a gun to il?"
"Sounds like a coe Goth band"
"We’re an ancient order A coalition of celestial beings and hureatest enemy"
Get ready for the Garden of Eden Sunday school lecture
"Don’t try and sell me the snake oil you fobbed off on your Ghostbusters out there I’ve enerals Those idiots are too busy stabbing each other in the back to be ree co wooden table and picks up what looks like a piece of thick brown cloth When she gets closer, I see that it’s vellum
"Lucifer is a eunuch and his armies are buried at the bottom of Creation No, our real concern is the world’s true enemy, the Enerjik Kissi" I’m not sure I catch the first word, but she pronounces the second one "Kee-shee" She holds up the velluil has formed there One I’ve never seen before It’s not like the usual angelic or even Hellion symbols It’s practically a Rorschach blot, like someone spilled ink on the vellum, and then tried to wipe it off
"Let oes and sits at the wooden table "All little boys like stories"
As el and her ed to bolt or put up too , and surrender I go to the table and sit down across from her She spreads the velluil fades away
"At the beginning of time, the Lord God made a mistake Frankly, to so monkeys, we can’t fix that one So we turn our attention to the first great es of rough glass globes appear, like pen-and-ink drawings As Aelita talks, the drawings begin to glow
"When the Lord bought life to the universe, He did it by spreading His divine light throughout the dark He breathed His light into glass vessels that He hung in the sky like the stars that would coht And we helped to spread it throughout Creation Once, as the Lord blew light into a vessel, He blew in a bit too ht fell into the void and onto the worlds ere building That falling light was the beginning of life in the universe"
Like a Disney cartoon, the vessels on the velluanisht landed on the worlds So but boiling chaos Since the Lord was now enchanted by the life growing on His worlds, we never bothered to put anything into the far void We all now regret that decision"
She waves her hand and the vellues disappear, like lines on an Etch A Sketch She lays her pal blackness seeps across it
"As both angels and lower life," - she nods inelse In the chaos grew another sort of life, very els, but different Wells and soels,’ which is as good an explanation as your little brains can grasp"
I putand writhing like liquid obsidian It looks like the knife I have under my coat The knife is supposed to be bone, but I never found out what kind of bone
I say, "The anti-angels are the Kissi"
"Yes" She one As she talks, other i on the vellum
"The Kissi don’t hate life Life fascinates they The unpredictability of it The chaos of life When they found early hu one tribe create weapons Teaching language to another The Kissi were born in chaos It’s what they’re made of It’s what they consu sort of chaos to the Kissi
"Eons ago, there was a war between us angels and the Kissi that raged froates of Heaven Neither side won"
"Was Lucifer already in Hell? If you’d asked for his help, he h I don’t think he’d like a bunch of one, who else would he screith?"
"No one would ask the Prince of Lies for help Don’t be stupid"
"So, it was an option? But you didn’t go for it Isn’t pride one of the seven deadly sins?"
She looks at ht before she sets hold of herself before the big explosion
"As I said, there was a war Neither side could defeat the other, so we struck a bargain with the Kissi They could stay and, since humans were naturally chaotic creatures, the Kissi could satisfy their appetites for chaos and destruction within certain specific liil was created to monitor this truce
"The truce has held for ed The Kissi activities are beco more bold and reckless They openly attack hu and weapons trading So has upset the balance" She takes her hand off the vellu it up "When we heard that Sandht be the cause of the trouble"
"Wells calledabout?"
"Please don’t use profanity here" She sets the vellu about you, you fool You’re Sandman Slim The monster who killsin Hell? Fallen angels are still angels We notice when someone kills them You have quite a reputation in the celestial realms That’s why you’re here"
"I’m not a monster I’m just a man"
"You’re a eyht your talent for destruction back here to Earth That’s why you’re here In case you hadn’t noticed, this is a job interview"