The Book Of Lies [Editing]

Chapter 1 -- Prologue

Chapter 1 -- Prologue

               

Note: This is written in third person, and this will probably be the only chapter written in third person. I wasn’t sure how to start this, so I might as well explain this whole angel business before you go on reading. Apologies if this chapter is a little too short for your taste. 

P.S. This is dedicated to @OneToMidnight because

a) She's really cool

b) I love her work/books

c) She introduced me to Wattpad and now i'm obsessed :)

                Charlie Lyar was a fallen angel, punished to forever to take care of the Book of Lies. The Book of Lies is a book filled with all the lies ever told, from everyone and everywhere, hence the name. For everything said or done in this world has to have an effect. Every outcome per income. If a mortal was to read said book, they would open the book immediately to their chapter of lies, not being able to turn forward or backward to read other people’s lies, not related to them (said about them, said to them etc.).

Apparently God has a sense of fairness and privacy.

Charlie used to be a normal angel, but he fell due to the fact that he had trouble with honesty, as given in the name that he is the Angel of Lies. Being one of the youngest and most immature of them all, he basically had the mindset and body of a mortal 17 year old. This angel was careless and fun-loving, which are not good traits for an angel to have. He has been looking over the book of lies for almost 1224 years, but from then, he sort of stopped counting. Was no point to it, was there?

Looking over all the lies that everyone has ever told…gives you a sense of guilt and a heavy conscience, seeing how heartless people really can be. There also seemed to be a pattern of “I’m fine”s written along almost every chapter of liars.

If you were to be a guardian of a beast, a labyrinth, a princess or maybe even a great treasure, life would not be boring. Charlie however, was none of these things. Therefore, his years passed quite slowly and uneventful for him.

Angels live among us and above us. Some angels have wings, some don’t. Some angels only dress in white, some don’t. Some angels bear halos, some don’t. Kind of explains why Charlie continued on carrying his duty without much protest, since he could read all the books he want, watch people age and live on, see generations carry on, and meet a few interesting people now and then. He was the type of angel that could be seen, so he figured it wasn’t as bad to stay without much complaints.

This also kind of explains why Charlie Lyar, fallen angel, Guardian of The Book of Lies, was lounging around at a coffee shop in Manhattan.