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Chapter 2
Giving the devil askeptical glance, God asked, “She really agreed to go?”
Satan responded. “Only when I permitted to let her dog go too.” Looking down the wishing well, shrouded in mist, he could see Ava trudging through the snow towards the cabin with the dog still clinging to her back.
God nodded. “Did you tell her what must be done?”
Satan straightened and looked at his creator. “No.”
“Lucifer... you had one job and that was to tell her what must be done!”
“I couldn’t! Dog or no dog she would have refused to go! I told her once she settled in the cabin that instructions would be sent. It’s the best I could do given the circumstances.”
“Tsk.” God shook his head. “I never would have thought you, of all beings would become weak over a female!”
He lifted a shoulder of indifference. “I’ve taken a shine to her, what can I say? She’s done my bidding for the past ten years without so much of a quibble, I’ll miss her...”
God squinted at this show of emotion, it seems his plan had worked and perhaps the demon had a heart after all. “Please tell me you at least told her about the weapons. It’s imperative that she knows what they are capable of!”
“In... In a round about way....” When Satan saw the look of outrage on God’s face, he continued. “Look, when I agreed to right the wrongs that is happening in the land of the living, it was my understanding that we would take care of our own ‘senders’.” He flicked a feather off his shoulder in disgust. “It’s really no skin off my ass if the living wants to destroy and destruct the earth, just means more souls to add tomyinventory.”
The outrage on God’s face turned serene. He knew Lucifer was right. “Then why did you agree to this mission?”
Leaning over the edge of the wishing well, Satan breathed a sigh of relief. Ava was standing on the porch of the cabin, unhooking Bones from her back. Turning back to God, he said, “You know why. Only you can grant her life back... and on that note, why did you send her to me in the first place? She never belonged in Hell, and you know that.”
“Because I knew this day would come. I thought having a heaven and hell would be enough to sway most and at one time it was...” God sadly shook his head. “...but no more. The living have become so self absorbed, and the ones in power are destroying the earth. She was sent to soften your heart.”
“Oh, come now, I wasn’t that bad.” When God sent him a look, Satan held up his hands. “The look says it all. Now enough about me and my misgivings, who are you sending?”
God turned and looked at the angels going about their day. Some were tending the gardens and others were teaching the new arrivals the ways of Heaven. And then there was one who was sprawled out in a hammock blissfully swinging between two weeping willows snoring off the bender he’d been on for the past week. “That one.” God waved his hand, and the hammock flipped.
Together, he and Satan peered into the wishing well as the man started freefalling to the ground below.
Awoken by his sudden downward spiral, the angel screamed his lungs out as he descended to earth.
