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“It’s no wonder you’re so worried about the gods then,” I said. “You will have to be around them forever now that they’re back.”
“Yeah,” he agreed, nodding. “Especially if you are right and Hades will take over the underworld once again. There will be no real Hell as I knew it to go back to. Not that I can go back anymore anyway,” he added, and his face twisted up a bit.Almost like he was in pain. But he didn’t seem to be outwardly injured in any way.
“So, you and your… friends,” I said, not knowing how else to put it, “you’re part of the whole Christian religion, right?”
“Up until a few weeks ago, we thought we were part of the only religion. Apparently, that was naive of us. Fuck, for all we know, all the other gods and goddesses exist too.”
I was having a hard enough time wrapping my head around what we knew for sure was happening. I wasn’t sure I had the mental capacity to add any more major players into the whole scenario yet.
“I was looking into all the so-called natural disasters going on. When I called my father, he mentioned them. I don’t watch much TV, so I really didn’t have any idea. It’s like everything I told you is happening. Almost all at once.”
“And we think it is just the beginning,” Bael said, exhaling hard.
“If I know anything from studying the gods most of my life, it’s that you’re right. They won’t stop. Not until they are being worshipped again. And I hate to think the kinds of things that will happen to people over this.”
“That the gods will hurt?” Bael asked.
“Yes. But also no. I think as it starts getting out, and some people start believing and worshiping, it is going to do what religion always does.”
“It’s going to set people against each other,” Bael concluded.
“Exactly.”
Human beings had an almost perfect track record for letting their beliefs come between them. It tore apart families and countries and entire empires. It waged countless, unending wars. It stoked prejudices.
And just when it seemed like society was finally starting to accept that there were other religions and they could coexistpretty harmoniously so long as people weren’t forcibly trying to convert others, they were going to get the old gods thrown into the mix.
“Do you have any faith in your kind?” Bael asked.
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “We don’t have a great track record with this sort of thing. Do you?” I asked, seeing as he’d been alive much longer than I had if he was immortal.
“Not a fucking bit of it,” he said, making my brows raise.
“Some people are smart.”
“Maybe the occasional individual, sure. You, for example. But all of them? No. Not a stitch of fucking faith in them. It’s going to be a nightmare for a couple decades. Maybe even a century.”
And he would be around to see it all.
“I’m sure you have more questions,” Bael said as I sat there, staring at the flames flickering in the fireplace, lost in my own swirling thoughts.
“Do demons… hurt humans?” I asked, not having been conscious of wanting to ask that until the words were out of my mouth.
“Some do, yeah. Can’t really possess them or eat their young if they don’t hurt you.”
“Oh,” I said, feeling my stomach twist.
“Not us,” he clarified. “We weren’t made for that.”
“You literally punish people in Hell,” I said, rolling my eyes.
“We punished bad people. People who hurt other people and shit like that. We would be no better than them if we did the same.”
There was a certain sort of logic there, I guess.
“I saved you, didn’t I?” he asked, his voice soft, making a shiver course through me.
He had.
