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I wanted to knock but so stopped me He sounded really busy, the sound of his keyboard audible through the door I didn’t want to disturb hiht have seeh at the ti he was listening to

He is/He’s the shining and the light without whom I cannot see And he is, insurrection, he is spite, he’s the force that ustusI was okay It was the first ti It was a nice change really Lifting o and leaving their impression inThe needle was thuainst the label

Rallying allright leg to the player Putting it out of its misery

Slipping the record back into its sleeve, returning the precious, vintage, vinyl to its alphabetical slow in the row, I selectedcloset and headed for the bathroom

I did a quick sweep of the co sure Rachel wasn’t about I would retreat and give her space The coast was clear, and I booted it to the bathrooer of fine, secondhand clothes on the hook set into the back of the bathroom door for this expressed purpose

No sooner had I sat back down at the desk, showered, dressed, with breakfast in hand, then a e, standing out against the white background in hues of pink Close to red but not quite thereRachel: You up?It was technically possible that I was still logged in from the day before I decided to be niceMe: Very much so Just had a showerMy words came up in dark blue The color and font selection were meant to be default as well as randoht I heard youMe: Who else ht it be at this time of day?Rachel: Noon?Shit, it really was too I couldn’t re Nearly nine hours in a row There was definitely soed to soothe ured, I mean, I usually hear you much earlierMe: So you can avoid That was a surprise Not that I wasn’t happy to hear it If nothing else, everything would be a lot more pleasant for both of us if we didn’t act like alking through ato knock yesterday but you sounded busy I heard your musicIt was niceMe: GhostRachel: What?Me: The music It was a Swedish Metal band called GhostRachel: Metal? Like, Heavy Metal? It didn’t sound like itMe: They do things differently in Europe ;)I could hear her giggling through the wall It sounded really niceRache: It sounded fascinating I loved the instrumentation, particularly

at the beginning Oh, and the choral sections It almost sounded

like so I would hear in church Particularly with the Latin

in the chorus Was it about God?It would have been the perfect time to lie I don’t knohat else I would have said but I knew that the worst possible thing would be to tell the truth That the song was about Lucifer Or at least the idea of Lucifer Using it the way most LaVeyans, particularly in the later period, did, as a ainst absolute authority

We could very well use so with the royalty of France and suffered for it In the name of freedom and personal autonomy Lucifer just had a bit more chutzpaMe: The truth?

Rachel: If you don’t mind :PMe: It’s actually about the devil Or more accurately

Lucifer How the idea of Luciferis portrayed in Pop

Culture taught the singer, Tobias Forge, to think for himself and be

independent The light that helps er

of light In this case ht on the

truth in the darkness of liesThere was a long pause then and I could tell she was thinking The ‘Rachel is typing…’ coerFinally a responseRachel: Meetroom?Me: Of courseIt was like an old-school co into each other on the way to the couch Rachel was the first to laugh at our silliness Seeing her relax helped me to also