Prologue

Michael and Gabriel hold our child in chains. Elohim watches in consideration, but says nothing else. The Council of Angels gather around and watch. No one says a word as they await for their father to speak. Though I have shown compassion and patience in the past, I do not feel patience or compassion at this time. We were betrayed, and as most of his brothers said, they would do it all over again. Human wives were not allowed because of the catastrophes such a careless marriage produced. Angelic wives were. They knew the rules, and yet they broke them. “My dear son, you have betrayed the Council of Angels and Us. What have you to say for yourself?” The prisoner looked down and began to cry. Suddenly he bounced up and tried to break his chains. “You murdered Inanna! Now she’s dead!” He seemed irrational, his eyes wild and broken. “You’ve killed her! Right in my arms. Her blood covered my hands, and it’s all your fault! And when I tried to save her, she was grabbed from my arms and dragged to the place of the unnamed!” “We have not murdered her.” I spoke in a calming voice that quelled Our children. “Your love for the human girl was what killed her. You disobeyed our rules, and she died because of your lust.” I didn’t want to punish him, neither of us did. But he had to for his own sake.

At that, he screamed. “Why did you take her from me, Mother? Why didn’t you kill me instead? I would’ve gladly died for her sake!” “Your union has brought about offspring that will destroy the world. The Nephilim walk about the world destroying humanity. It’s only a matter of time before they make deals with the unspoken to destroy Heaven as well. Your lust has brought about the end of the world.” Elohim began to speak our united punishment. “For your punishment, you shall forever walk about Adamah, without being seen by humanity. Since you lusted after humanity so much, you will be with them forever. You are forbidden to speak to them, but you must forever watch them. They will wither away before your eyes, but you will remain.” He spoke with justice and, unsurprisingly, love for His fallen child. I could hear in our shared mind and feel it in our shared heart. My husband went on with our shared voice: “Your name has been stripped from you until the end of your punishment. And your children will be wiped from Adamah in a Great Flood-- a Great Flood which has already begun.” As he began to fade away, he screamed and screamed. Love drove humans to sin, but angels were created to be immune from sin. We created them to ignore sin, but our first example of an angel gone bad was the unnamed from Sheol. Temptation; however, can turn even the purest angel into a human being. He only had to do one thing to return to Heaven: he had to end his love for Inanna. 0 P.D.