Nephilim and the Nun

•Chapter Tweny-four•

Adina
...I was back at the basement but this time, he wasn't the one in chains. It was me and I was all alone, surrounded by eerie silence and a blanket of darkness. My body hurt and ached from being in the same position for so long, with my arms chained above me and stretched tunt, my legs also chained to the ground and spread so wide that I had no leverage to move them.

The beads of sweat rolling down my naked body, coupled with the musty smell of my environment and the stench of dried blood filling my nostrils made me nauseous. A head-splitting headache attacked me as I struggled to remember how I'd landed in this situation. The dull pain at the back of my head wasn't helping matters. The more I cracked my brain to remember, the stronger and more unbearable the pain became but then the memories began streaming into my head.

I'd been captured. I could recall the exact moment I was thrown into the car but that was all. I couldn't recall my captor.

While I was still lost in this misery, I saw the faint rays of light coming in from a far, just as I heard the almost silent thuds of footsteps heading towards me. The closer they got, the more the light illuminated my environment and the more my heart thudded from the fear of the unknown.

A cold shiver racked my entire being, causing goosebumps to break out on my skin from the fright of what was to come and my impending fate. Soon, the entire basement was illuminated and my eyes that were downcast were staring at the boots of my captor. My heart thudded loudly in my chest, scared to know who my captor was.

It can't be him. Please, don't let it be. I prayed Fervently, unwillingly to relieve my old horrifying nightmare.

But when the man in front of me spoke, my fears were lost, giving way to surprise as my eyes darted up to meet with those icy blue ones.

"I have you just where I've wanted,"

It wasn't Lucifer, it was Uriel...

My eyes slowly opened, but the bright rays of the sunlight streaming into my room through the opened window were quick to assault me, causing a moment of color blindness as I squinted them shut before slowly opening them to get used to the brightness.

My heart was still racing, reeling from the strange dream I'd just had.

It was Uriel, but he looked so malicious that he scared me. It was as if he had no previous knowledge of me and I was only a stranger to him, more like a prey. But then, he had blue eyes, the same icy shades like Lucifer's.

The more I thought about the dream, the more confused I became. I tried letting it go but I just couldn't. It seemed so strange and different from all of my previous dreams where I'd seen Lucifer and Uriel differently. This time, it was as if they were the same person.

I shook my head, refusing to believe that. Lucifer had no physical resemblance to Uriel, not even in the less-subtle details. And their personalities were so far apart.

I rose to a sitting position, slightly massaging my temple as I felt my head getting hot from all of these baffling and insane thoughts. Thankfully, my stomach rumbled from hunger pangs and I found an excuse to displace these thoughts and get on with my day but the dream was still lingering in a corner of my mind.

I pulled myself out of bed and cleaned up before heading to the kitchen to make a quick breakfast. It was my day off from work so I had the whole day and the entire night to do something I liked. Truly, there was nothing I wanted to do more than to paint. I'd recently gotten some cheap acrylic paints and I was ready to try them out. Also, I'd been so busy lately that I hadn't settled down to let my creative instincts get to work. So I was excited to begin.