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With the last spark of divine energy left, I formed a golden ball and struck. I let this piece of myself enter my Haye and wrap itself around her darkness, her divinity. At that exact moment, I locked all her memories of her previous existence and of us into this sphere as well.
Then I closed my eyes. I heard her panic, how she looked around in a rush, not knowing who she was and what was happening to her. I had given her a future without this pain and taken away my own happiness. Nevertheless, I knew I had done the right thing when I took away her consciousness at the moment of her first scream.
"What have you done?" Michael shouted behind me.
"I have prevented this moment from repeating itself because she will be able to live as a human without memories of her true self, and I will no longer look for her," I breathed powerlessly. The pain was already unbearable. How could I bear it for an eternity?
I opened my eyes and looked at my beautiful Haye one last time.
Michael stood in front of me. His face was burning with rage.
"Do you really think you can trick me?" he spat in my face. "I hereby decree she will not be reborn as a normal human being for all eternity but always as a mythical woman. Mortal and yet only partly real. Doomed to write history. And you, you will be banished to the underworld with your traitor friends."
The underworld. A dark place that lacked any brightness. The God of the First Light, bound to the darkness, without its mistress. Michael surpassed himself in his cruelty. Only the knowledge that I couldn't meet her down there gave me some comfort.
Michael approached me with a raised index finger.
"Don't think this is the end," he sneered at me. "You will be appointed protector of Lilith's daughter without ever meeting this woman, and she here..." he pointed to the still raging fire in which her body was turning to ash. "She will cross this daughter's path in every one of her damned human lives. Let's see how long you can stay away from her."
He called his troops to him, and he sent them back into the sky one by one until he was the only one left on the pitch. He looked at me with a grin.
"I always win!" Michael's confident laugh was the last thing I heard before the darkness swallowed me. It swept me away into a new life that would have been nothing to me without her. I would continue to exist, but nothing more. Entrusted with a task that allowed me to see her occasionally.
How long would that last? I didn't know.
There was only one thing I was sure of: Michael was never allowed to win.
