chapter Forty-Senven
PART THE THIRD
THE SINS
OF THE FATHER
While everyone's lost, the battle is won.
- The Killers, "All These Things That I've Done"
Gabrielle
remember everything now.
I had decided to walk after the performance. The music moved me, it was so beautiful and sad. But I was happy. We were happy then. You and I. We had learned to love this world, and we had not yet known despair. I had discovered something that could change our world forever, and I'd meant to tell you but I wanted to be sure. It was a wonderful secret, and I'd planned to tell you that we would soon be home in Eden.
I went past the courtyard and down the steps, and decided I would take the passages to visit our friends in Lutetia. But as I walked down, I heard something - a noise, something different. And I followed the noise to its source. The tunnels were different, and I realized I was no longer in this world, but in another. I was not even in the passages anymore.
I was on a different path.
I heard his voice, booming in the darkness. The voice of our friend and emperor. Gaius. The one they called Caligula. Addressing his people.
I turned the corner and I saw.
Their eyes glittered crimson and silver; their fangs outstretched. I saw their hunger and greed, and I knew all was lost. That Gaius was Lucifer, hidden among us, and that he had discovered the Paths of the Dead, and he would lead an army of the Fallen and demons to take this world.
So I ran.
I ran away, to tell you, to warn you, to warn us all about the betrayal that was in the Coven, that we had nursed and nurtured among us.
I ran.
And Lucifer followed me.