I, Devil (a love story)

Chapter Seven: Azazel

The priest, Joshua, was in love with Noah. Sweet and tragic. An interesting facet to the problem but no closer to the center. I decided to take my notes and say farewell to uncle Pete. I wanted to get closer to Noah without alerting Meresin. I decided to dive deeper and just face the human myself. I'd have to risk not running into my brother, or if I did, I'd need an excuse.

I kept my sight on Noah as I left the funeral. I kept my feelers out in the ether to avoid Meresin. I know his vibrational fingerprint almost as well as I know my own. If he were cloaking himself while I was snooping around, something he is known to do, I run the risk of getting caught. Meresin is a sly bastard and being invisible, even to other angels, is his standard operating procedure. I had to be on my toes if I were to spy on his precious human project in person.

I considered visiting Noah in dreams but quickly found out his mind was on lockdown. It had Meresin all over it. There were artificial barriers put there. Black obsidian walls, my brother's handiwork. He wanted no other angel or spirit on Noah. The next safest place was present day, present time. I can move freely throughout most human timelines. However, the most unstable place is the near future. I can only move as far as what the majority of humans have decided is really 'real,' or really physical. That means I cannot move far into the future, just a few steps ahead of present day. It also makes predicting the future fifty fifty most of the time.

Noah was at a baseball field, which was surprising since he didn't strike me as a particularly athletic kid. He was with someone who I immediately read as not being Joshua. There was no baseball game, as I didn't read any other creature's vibrations as being present--except a few rodents under the bleachers. I could tell the other human wasn't Joshua as they were a doorway, and they seemed somewhat familiar to me.

A doorway, meaning she (likely a 'she') had children. Since I'm a entity without a body I don't have physical eyes to see what people look like literally. I don't care what people look like either, except that they often (though not always) reflect what their energy looks like. To me, all people are human. Physically, they're all just a spectrum of female. Penises are just very large clitorises. 

This is why 'men' have vestigial nipples. But, there is a point when a baby is forming that the Veil becomes closed; they cannot house a spirit, and they aren't gifted with a womb. I can see the vibration of doorways inside people pretty well. People with doorways are by nature more complex, beautiful spirits.

I felt dazzled by the energy of the person beside Noah. Immediately, I was more interested in what was going on. I also put my guard up, because it seemed odd that Meresin wasn't around for this. I hid myself with an extra layer of glamour. It was near real-time and I knew Meresin, or any of my brothers, could show up at any moment for any reason. I was safer in the past, where not all of my brothers could time travel and find me. In addition, being the Devil, it isn't just other fallen angels looking for me and demanding my time and attention.

The energy swapping back and forth between the Doorway and Noah was electrifying. They were flirting, and both were giving and receiving equally. Passionately. Oooh!!

I did another layer of masking and protection just to be safe. This was good. This was juicy. Did Joshua know, I wonder? Did he get over that crush from a while ago? Did Meresin know? It looked like love almost, but it was clearly too young to be tested and true. Love was a white energy, burning and cold at the same time. It was an energy like no other, and something I'm not privy to wield or have. It destroyed everything. It built everything. It couldn't be fucked with. But, it was a volatile energy and I personally love fucking with everything around it. I'm attracted to it, as everything is. Like any catalyst, you could guarantee something interesting was going to happen when you saw it.