CHAPTER 6
I was about to respond when Seraqual's voice in my mind interrupted my thoughts. “Remiel, I could use some help please. When it's convenient.” An image of a flat, almost featureless plain on another planet came along with his words. It may have been flat but the sand was made it stand out as it was colored somewhere between searing and blinding shades of green, managing to give me a headache even though I wasn't actually looking at it.
“In a moment brother,” I replied, then turned to Lucifer, “Seraqual needs me but I have a question before I leave. I brought a rock with me when I joined you here and I noticed that it seemed to join with me as I traveled, then it and I separated as soon as I arrived. The experience made me wonder if it was the same rock I had started with or if it was a whole new rock. Have you noticed that when you travel with Lillith?” I had been pondering the experience while staring at the waters below me.
Lucifer shifted his weight, pursed his lips nervously and looked away. “Yes, I have.”
I waited, he didn't continue, “And?”
“And what?” he snarled
“Have you noticed if she has obtained more of your energy? You looked as if the separation from her caused you pain.”
“I am not sure.” His aura flashed and crackled, “Go to Seraqual, I have something to attend to.”
He disappeared, leaving me alone with my thoughts which I temporarily pushed away to send myself to where Seraqual was. The color was even worse when I saw it in person and I had to squint my eyes to try to moderate the harshness of it. “What do you need help with?” I asked
“This,” his hand swept in a large arc. “I don't know what to do with it. It needs to be shaped but I can't think of how.”
“Does it need to be this color?” I asked. Seraqual's specialty was landscapes and creating geography, if he was having problems with something this simple I knew something else was bothering him, but I couldn't focus on that while my eyes were being burned by that shade of green.
“Not particularly, I'm just so frustrated.” He waved his hand and the green shifted to a painless brown and I managed to open my eyes all the way again.
“What's the problem?”
“I cannot see it!” His voice was pitched much higher than usual and his hands were shaking, “The pattern, what it is supposed to be. I always know what it is I am do to but not now.”
Agitation filled his movements, his ebony eyes kept moving back and forth, searching frantically for some sort of clue or indication as to what he should do. His arms were in constant motion as well, crossing and uncrossing in front of him.
“Peace, Seraqual, I am sure it will come to you.”
In some ways he was the most fragile of us, at least on an emotional and energetic level. I guess you could say he had an artist's soul, he was easily affected by anything that was out of harmony. Uriel may have been the scheduler but Seraqual was the one with perfect pitch so to speak. He always picked up on the slightest discordant vibrations in the energy patterns around us.
“It's already out of harmony,” he murmured, rocking back and forth on his feet, “They just brought that thing to life and it's already affecting things. It blots out everything else!” His aura became erratic, spots of rich earth brown colors jumped and spun within canary colored streaks that raced around him. “The more of that thing Elohim makes the worse it will get. Can't you feel it Remiel?”
I'd been so caught up in my negotiations with Elohim and instructing Lillith that I hadn't really paid attention to anything else. Once he pointed it out to me I felt it. At first it just seemed to be a buzzing sound, like a mosquito or a bee flying around but as I turned my focus from the physical to the energetic and looked at the paths and currents of energy flowing around and through me the more I felt it. It was small but insidious. Imagine a clear pool of water in front of you, then you and a friend start waves that flow at different times. Notice how it looks when they collide with each other when that energy is being redirected and deflected in a chaotic fashion, causing greater and greater ripples that eventually disrupt the entire pool. That is the best description I can give of what I saw before me.
He hissed and his eyes grew wide, “Lucifer! Why must you make it worse?”
As soon as he spoke I noticed it too. A purple and sunset colored streak was entangled with the discordant thread and the colors seemed to be growing more intense.
“Well that answers that question.” I muttered.
“What question?” Seraqual asked.
I told him about transporting the rock and what I had felt. It seemed that he had indeed involuntarily given more of his energy to her while in transit or somehow had become more entwined with her than I had originally thought. “We need to tell Lucifer,” I said.
“What makes you think he will listen or care?” Seraqual snapped.
I chose not to answer, defending Lucifer was already becoming a full time occupation.
“Lucifer, you need to look at the energies around you.” I sent out to him, “Please, they are out of balance.”
There was a pause before he responded, when he did it was in a tone I had never heard from him; quiet, concerned and with an underlying feel of remorse. “I did not expect this. I am not sure...,” he trailed off, lost in thought. “I need time.” There was another pause, “Thank you for telling me.”
“You are welcome. You may not have time brother, Seraqual is in a panic, the others are bound to notice soon and we need to inform Elohim. He will not take this well.”
“I am aware of that,” he replied in a more brusque tone. He was trying to hide the concern he had shown moments before, “Try to calm Seraqual for now. I will inform Elohim, do not concern yourself with me. Seraqual is much more fragile than I.”
“You will inform him? Is that wise? I think it would be better if myself or Uriel speak to him. He is not going to listen to what you have to say.”
“The balance is above us all,” he stated, “This may be the one thing that will make him back away from this course. Neither of us knew this would happen when we were creating her. If any of you discuss this with him he will see it as criticizing his creation, if I do it is I pointing out a flaw in what we both did.”
A disturbing thought came to me and I saw another one of those dark moments looming before me. I hesitated to speak, I did not want to strain my relationship with him. “Are we sure it is because of her as a creation and not due to what you gifted her with that she is out of balance?”
“I cannot take back what I gifted her and now that Elohim knows we can do such things he will do the same for her mate. I...”
He couldn't bring himself to apologize but the feelings that came along with his words told me enough. He didn't think he was truly wrong in what he had done but he hadn't been aware of the larger consequences of his choices. Contrary to popular belief, we are not infallible.
“It is your decision.” I said, “I will try to help Seraqual as best I can. I hope Elohim listens.”
“As do I. Thank you brother.”
I felt him shift and send himself elsewhere. I returned my attention to Seraqual.
“Well?” he asked.
“Lucifer is going to speak with Elohim,” I held my hand up, Seraqual had already started to speak. “He stated that if we spoke to him he would see it as us criticizing him, whereas if Lucifer does, he is pointing out a flaw in something they made together. He stated the balance is above us all and wants to try to stop Elohim from creating another.”
“Remiel, I know some of us are mad at them but I am more frustrated with than mad. We have all wanted to create things that perhaps we should not, but we have always chosen not to.” He started to pace as his aura dimmed and his voice dropped back to a more normal pitch. “The two of them, this, whatever this is, they both know it is wrong. They have to know! Why wouldn't they?”
“Perhaps they got caught up in the challenge of it, at least that is whatI think happened with Lucifer at first. Elohim, I am not as sure about. Some of the things he said, well, he's not entirely incorrect.”
Seraqual's body whipped around, his mouth hung open in surprise. “Not you too!”
“Calm yourself, I am not agreeing with Elohim's madness. However, I am beginning to grasp some of what he feels. Lil-” I caught myself, “Their creation asked me what we were. I had no answer for her.”
His eyes narrowed in disgust while his mouth looked as if he had bitten into something truly vile, “Why were you speaking to it in the first place?”
“To try to get some space between her and Lucifer so we could negotiate something between he and Elohim. Lucifer is overly protective and I informed him that it would be hard for her to make a proper choice as he wishes if she grew too attached to him. She is very intelligent and curious.”
“She is an abomination and should not exist at all!” He spun away from me and stared across the featureless plain. “So much work that needs to be done and we are preoccupied with their...their...recklessness!” He flung his hands into the air and the ground shifted almost knocking me to my knees. A huge crack appeared in front of him, splitting the earth with a deafening sound. It raced away from him and widened with horrifying speed.
“Seraqual! Calm down!”
Deeper and deeper the crack grew, steam started rising from the depths. He ignored me, his once muted aura flared with such intensity that it crashed against my own, other cracks started to streak out from where he stood.
“That is enough brother!” I never had to stop a brother from creating something or shaping a world before, but the damage he was causing was setting off a number of events under the planet's crust that was quickly heading towards catastrophic. I quickly shifted and reappeared in front of him, hovering over the ever widening canyon that originated at his feet and made one more attempt to reason with him. “You must stop this!”
Some semblance of rational thought started breaking through when he actually saw me in front of him. His eyes widened as it finally registered what he had done. “I? Did this?” He asked, shock making him take a step back in horror as his arms fell to his sides.