Not letting Lazarus walk me out, I got the hell out of there, letting denial take over for a while.
Chapter 10
Lazarus~
The doctor in me wanted to dismiss all of Bodhi’s claims, the man in me had wanted to chase after Lissa, and the rest of me was confused as fuck.I’d always been pragmatic, and I had always dealt with disorders that could be proven by tests, observations, and experience, but this was something completely out of my norm, and I could admit that logic was barely hanging on by a thread here.
Which was why I was standing in front of this goddamn door.
I knocked once, and when I heard an amused voice give me permission to enter, I grabbed the doorknob, opening it carefully out of habit.While the patients here really didn’t have the right to privacy, we liked to let them believe that they did for calming reasons.Everyone needed a safe space, and we did our best to provide that here.
As soon as I entered the room, I unwisely shut the door, making myself at home in the corner while Bodhi looked relaxed on the bed.Since there was no evidence of him being dangerous yet, he had a few luxuries that the patients on the third floor didn’t possess, but they weren’t much.Still, one of those luxuries was a chair nestled in the corner of the room, and so I took a seat without invitation.
“From the beginning of time, they’ve always been a lot stronger than men,” he remarked absently.“They’re vital to everything that will ever exist, and they don’t even know it.They are needed in a way that they’ll never understand, and the power that they possess is unlike anything that any man will ever be able to hold in his hand.”
“You’re talking about women,” I surmised.
“Aside from the obvious that they give life and keep the human race alive, their connection to God is one that dates back to Eve,” he went on.
“Meaning?”
“It is said that Eve betrayed both God and Adam when she entered the Garden of Eden, yes?”I nodded because who didn’t know that story.“And as a vengeful God, He exiled them, leaving them to struggle in lieu of all the promises that God had been willing to grant them.”
“What’s your point?”I asked, his riddles irritating me more and more.
“Have you ever wondered why God didn’t just kill Eve or take her from Adam, leaving him to wander the earth alone again?Why did He let Adam keep her?”
“Truth be told, I’ve never thought about it,” I admitted.
“Before Eve, Adam hadn’t known what it’d felt like to feel truly alone,” he explained.“Wanting His first child to have more than what’d been promised, God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’, and that’s what he did.However, once Adam had experienced Eve, can you imagine what it would have done to him had God taken her away from him completely?Even in His punishments, God recognizes what can happen when things go too far.”
“What’s that have to do with Lissa?”I asked, because it was her that we were talking about, and we both knew it.
“She speaks like she’s not powerful, but she is,” he answered.“She’s more powerful than she could ever fathom, but out of the two of you, you’re the only one who knows it.”
“How can you be so sure what it is that I know?Or don’t know for that matter?”
