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They were simply waiting… as they had done in Hell all this time.
What was a few more seconds?
“Azrael is going to kill me,” Micah sighed.
“Azrael will understand the tactical advantage we’ve just given her,” I said. “Can you take them all with you, or not?”
Micah nodded. “When you reach the pyramids, there will be a portal waiting for all of you.”
Missolis bowed her head. “We are grateful,” she said, “and we are ready.”
“I should get back so that I can make preparations,” said Micah, “and, you know, warn the others.”
“No weapons,” I said. “Trust me. They won’t hurt anyone.”
Micah nodded once more, then the cherub stepped back through his portal. As he did so, the Light that had allowed him to project to our location snuffed itself out. I walked up to Hekata who seemed strangely calm considering all she had just witnessed.
“You came back,” I said.
She shrugged. “I told you to trust me.”
“You were gone for a very long time. I thought maybe you had decided to rejoin Lucifer and the other demons.”
“I thought about it. But then I came across many demons, corpses all, wings and limbs jutting out of the sand. The Lucifer I was told about would not have let his people die like this. He would have torn a hole in Hell’s wall and marched us all toward salvation at his side.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I wish you hadn’t had to see that, but I’m glad you’re not amongst them.”
“As am I. But don’t think that this means I trust you, I still expect treachery; if not from you, then from the other sycophants we are about to join.”
“She’s right… they will hate us,” said Missolis, coming up to us both, her eyes burning in the relative darkness around us.
I nodded. “I know,” I said. “But we are each other’s best hope for survival. The angels will see that… if the demons do as well.”
“I’ll make them,” said Missolis. “I won’t forget what you’ve done for us today, none of us will.”
“I haven’t done anything except convince an old friend to let an army of demons into his house. He’s the one who saved our lives, though, only thanks to you,” I said, looking at Hekata.
“Our mortal lives…” she added.
“Right… we should get moving. And as soon as we get through that portal, I’m going to introduce you both to cake.”
In unison, Missolis and Hekata asked, “to what?”
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The desert was cold at night, bitterly so, but it was worse for the demons. These were creatures that until recently were immortal and didn’t have to care about such trivial things like warmth, and sleep, and the need for water. My plan had been to spend the night somewhere dark and enclosed where we wouldn’t be so exposed to the elements.
Instead, we were flying over the desert—a whole legion of demons led by a former angel.
Hekata insisted the Pyramids of Giza were close. Maybe for her, that was true. For me and the others the trip felt like an age. A small eternity spent flying over a sea of dunes, and dirt, and the hollowed out remains of the small settlements we came across.
In all this time, I hadn’t spotted a single human, nor had I encountered signs of them. No lights, no fires, there weren’t even aircraft in the sky. It was dark and eerily quiet… but the pyramids themselves eventually came into view, and it was then that I regained some hope.
Each of the monolithic structures was brightly lit and visible for miles. There were city lights nearby, twinkling in a manner that mirrored the stars floating overhead. Finally, civilization. Finally, humans.
They’re not all dead.
It was a morbid thought, and it came entirely on its own. I hadn’t wanted to concede to the idea that they might all be dead; those actual words hadn’t crossed my mind. But I had clearly been considering the thought, and it made me shudder.
