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God.
“Well. Fuck.”
“Yep.”
Persephone sat down. “So how do we do it?” She looked over Nyx. “And apropos of nothing, Nyx, why do you have green veins running all over your body and green hair?”
“Green hair?”
“Emerald green,” Persephone confirmed. “It looks kinda sexy.”
Nyx rolled her eyes. “I knew about the veins… the green is because I’ve got Epiphenia inside my skin.”
“What?” Persephone’s eyes went wide with disbelief. “Epiphenia died. I felt her die. It shook through Hell like an earthquake. Her presence just vanished.” She shook her head. “That’s the last thing I remember feeling before they took my head. I think my last thought was, ‘Well, we’re fucked,’ and then things went dark for a while. When I came back together, Lucifer was putting me inside that statue.”
“It was Lucifer’s work?”
“Asmodeus.”
“Ah. He never could sculpt for shit.”
“True. But that doesn’t explain how Epiphenia is alive.”
“Nothing dies in Hell,” said Nyx. “Remember?”
“Yeah, but…” Persephone looked confused. “The whole purpose behind bringing her to Hell was to kill her.”
“And somehow she survived,” said Nyx, looking at the green under her skin. It reminded her of the young moss that grew on the stones of her temples. Cool, quiet, dense with life. “Or, at least, part of her survived. There’s a lot of power in me that wasn’t there before, except when Tribunal put it into me…”
Persephone sniggered. Nyx glared. Persephone tried to change her expression. “Sorry. Giddy with freedom.” She coughed twice and arranged her features into a more serious expression. “So, what do we do now?”
Nyx shook her head. “I was thinking something sneaky, but now that Lucifer knows you’re gone, he’s going to be looking for you.”
“Well. There’s no way to hide down here…”
“But there is a way to disappear,” said Nyx. “I can make us invisible to any Angel’s mind, including Lucifer. And I can make them not notice us physically, as long as we don’t do anything to attract attention.”
“Like breaking Ishtar out of Lucifer’s palace.”
“Like that, yes,” agreed Nyx. “Once we do that, the ones who saw us will keep seeing us, and can call others, even if our minds are invisible to theirs.”
“Then we leave no one alive,” said Persephone. “A quick strike in, take the heads of anyone who sees us, and run like Hell. By the time they heal, we’ll be out of sight and out of mind.” Persephone grinned. “So to speak.”
Nyx nodded. It was as good a plan as any.
“All right.” Nyx grinned. “Ready to have Lucifer completely lose his shit?”
Persephone grinned back. “Always.”
Nyx took Persephone’s hand and with a thought made them invisible to every mind in Hell.
Chapter 4
A.D. 1120
A rcana sat on the Dome on the Rock, looked over Jerusalem, and despaired.
In the mosque beneath her, she could hear the seven men who had volunteered to be Knights Templar setting up their possessions. Arcana wasn’t sure it was right to use the mosque as a base for the knights. But then, she wasn’t sure about much anymore, except that she couldn’t find a way back to Heaven, and that she desperately needed to get there.
It doesn’t make any sense, Arcana thought as she watched the sun rise. She could hear the light moving across the earth, could hear the music of the world and the worlds beyond the atmosphere. She could sense the movements of the humans below as they began their days in the city, and the ones on the other side of the world as they went to bed for the night. She could hear and see everything except for the entrance to Heaven.
None of it makes any sense.
A.D. 1105
“Are you sure?” demanded the merchant for the tenth time.
“Yes, by all that is holy, I am sure,” said Arcana with some asperity.
The two of them were in a small, airless room where the only light came slipping in between
“Well. Fuck.”
“Yep.”
Persephone sat down. “So how do we do it?” She looked over Nyx. “And apropos of nothing, Nyx, why do you have green veins running all over your body and green hair?”
“Green hair?”
“Emerald green,” Persephone confirmed. “It looks kinda sexy.”
Nyx rolled her eyes. “I knew about the veins… the green is because I’ve got Epiphenia inside my skin.”
“What?” Persephone’s eyes went wide with disbelief. “Epiphenia died. I felt her die. It shook through Hell like an earthquake. Her presence just vanished.” She shook her head. “That’s the last thing I remember feeling before they took my head. I think my last thought was, ‘Well, we’re fucked,’ and then things went dark for a while. When I came back together, Lucifer was putting me inside that statue.”
“It was Lucifer’s work?”
“Asmodeus.”
“Ah. He never could sculpt for shit.”
“True. But that doesn’t explain how Epiphenia is alive.”
“Nothing dies in Hell,” said Nyx. “Remember?”
“Yeah, but…” Persephone looked confused. “The whole purpose behind bringing her to Hell was to kill her.”
“And somehow she survived,” said Nyx, looking at the green under her skin. It reminded her of the young moss that grew on the stones of her temples. Cool, quiet, dense with life. “Or, at least, part of her survived. There’s a lot of power in me that wasn’t there before, except when Tribunal put it into me…”
Persephone sniggered. Nyx glared. Persephone tried to change her expression. “Sorry. Giddy with freedom.” She coughed twice and arranged her features into a more serious expression. “So, what do we do now?”
Nyx shook her head. “I was thinking something sneaky, but now that Lucifer knows you’re gone, he’s going to be looking for you.”
“Well. There’s no way to hide down here…”
“But there is a way to disappear,” said Nyx. “I can make us invisible to any Angel’s mind, including Lucifer. And I can make them not notice us physically, as long as we don’t do anything to attract attention.”
“Like breaking Ishtar out of Lucifer’s palace.”
“Like that, yes,” agreed Nyx. “Once we do that, the ones who saw us will keep seeing us, and can call others, even if our minds are invisible to theirs.”
“Then we leave no one alive,” said Persephone. “A quick strike in, take the heads of anyone who sees us, and run like Hell. By the time they heal, we’ll be out of sight and out of mind.” Persephone grinned. “So to speak.”
Nyx nodded. It was as good a plan as any.
“All right.” Nyx grinned. “Ready to have Lucifer completely lose his shit?”
Persephone grinned back. “Always.”
Nyx took Persephone’s hand and with a thought made them invisible to every mind in Hell.
Chapter 4
A.D. 1120
A rcana sat on the Dome on the Rock, looked over Jerusalem, and despaired.
In the mosque beneath her, she could hear the seven men who had volunteered to be Knights Templar setting up their possessions. Arcana wasn’t sure it was right to use the mosque as a base for the knights. But then, she wasn’t sure about much anymore, except that she couldn’t find a way back to Heaven, and that she desperately needed to get there.
It doesn’t make any sense, Arcana thought as she watched the sun rise. She could hear the light moving across the earth, could hear the music of the world and the worlds beyond the atmosphere. She could sense the movements of the humans below as they began their days in the city, and the ones on the other side of the world as they went to bed for the night. She could hear and see everything except for the entrance to Heaven.
None of it makes any sense.
A.D. 1105
“Are you sure?” demanded the merchant for the tenth time.
“Yes, by all that is holy, I am sure,” said Arcana with some asperity.
The two of them were in a small, airless room where the only light came slipping in between
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