An Arrangement was Made

Chapter 13: Ignorance is Bliss

Adam screamed. He had been on one of his searches for Lillith when he came across a group of buzzards scavenging a corpse. The human had run full speed back to the garden. He was terrified.

The body had been completely split open leaving every single organ on full display. The buzzards yanked entrails out of the cavity like worms out of the dirt. There was blood everywhere. Despite the excess of carrion, the horrid birds insisted on fighting each other. Beaks and talons clashed in violent competition for the heart and liver. The softest parts of the corpse had already been eaten by whatever animal had killed the primate in the first place. Eyes, tongue, genitals, and most of the facial features were long gone. The only thing left for Adam to identify the corpse by was a few pieces of what he thought was blonde hair.

He refused to ever leave the garden ever again. The smell was like nothing Adam had ever smelled before. The putrid smell of death lingered in his nostrils for many days after he encountered the body. Anytime he thought about it, he would immediately heave whatever was in his stomach. How could any animal be so evil as to do something like that to another living creature? How could you take the life of another and then treat its body as nothing more than food?!

He wanted to go back there and kill every single one of those birds, but he didn't. He was too scared. Whatever had killed what he thought was his wife might come back, and he didn't want to end up being its next meal.

For months he barely ate or drank. He didn't know what to do now. He was completely and utterly alone.

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"Adam?" Sera called. Lucifer had covered his mischief well. Heaven had not discovered that the selfish boy had taken the human girl until many months after she had initially left the garden. The troublesome seraphim had kept her safely hidden away in his home like a stray dog. It had been his twin Michael that had discovered her living there.

Now that God was asleep, heaven was much slower to decisions. The newly appointed heavenly council had never made a decision of this magnitude before, and everyone was terrified of making a mistake. No one wanted to wake God up either. How do you tell the creator of time, space, and every known thing that in the 15 years he's been asleep, a teenager was able to take one of the humans as a pet without any of the adults noticing? That was the one thing that everyone on the angelic council could agree on. No one is to wake The Lord.

That did make coming to a decision of what to do much more difficult. Without an omnipotent being to decide for them, no one was certain what to do. None of them had ever had this much free will before and all of them were scared of their freedom. The debate of what to do lasted nearly a full year before a compromise was reached. They would make Adam a new wife.

Sera had been the one sent to earth to create the new woman. Her opinions of the earth were not positive. She disliked the wind. It was stronger than the gentle breeze that was always floating through heaven, and it stopped at seemingly random times. It was more difficult to fly in. She kept her wings carefully shut behind her. Her wings were as thin as butterfly wings and she didn't trust this earthly wind not to snap them.

She disliked the grass. The grass was not like the soft, pillowy clouds of heaven. It was pokey, itchy, and uncomfortable. Worse, it was filled with teeny tiny little spindly creatures that Sera did not like looking at. The feet of Seraphim were not made to touch grass. They did not have the thick, tough skin of humans.

"Adam?" She called again. This time, the human heard her. He ran from the tree he had been laying under and threw himself into her arms. Sera recoiled, but the human was so desperate for any kind of affection right now that he didn't notice how disgusted she was with him.