Commitment - Predatory Ethics: Book II (15 page)
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Authors: Athanasios
She endured it the worst of the three because she hadn’t partaken of her natural diet for centuries and wasn’t used to its narcoleptic effects. The two males were familiar, one she hadn’t seen for decades and the other for millennia. To her surprise the smaller of the two was clearly in charge and the taller towered over the smaller man’s near corpulent frame of scarlet and black. She knew the opulent dress of the tall figure because at one time she had adored it and called it father. She was always besotted with the tassels and gilded lace he wore.
“So you understand, my sweet, you’ll have to come with us. There will be no arguments to the contrary, please no.” Her father’s voice still held an impossible compelling quality she was powerless over, yet she still managed to object.
“Why, what does He want with me? I already gave him Bernhardt, what more proof does he need of my obedience?”
“You did nothing, Fräulein Rothschild,” Hitler countered. “Her Hapsburg was put in his place as will you.”
“Melusine, please.” She graciously offered her first name, belittling the Fuhrer’s formality. “How do you think Lucifer knew about anything Bernhardt was planning?”
“How did you?” Asmodeus was quick to ask, propping up the floundering Hitler’s argument. “You knew nothing, that much is obvious.”
“That’s not true.” She fought on. “The moment I found out his plans I sent word to my Dark Lord.”
“The Templars have been planning to cheat the Leviathan out of his prize since they splintered into the Freemasons centuries ago. If you knew anything you would have, should have sent word then. It didn’t start with Bernhardt, he but continued a plot begun before Weishaupt was in short pants.” Asmodeus made ribbons of Melusine’s assertions, tied her up with them and left her with nothing further to say while Hitler grinned in satisfaction.
“Why do you meet with the Redeemer?” Hitler asked barely above a whisper.
“I but saw a need in the boy. A need for direction, guidance back to the Family he turned his back on.” She stopped at an upturned hand for silence.
“That is not your place. It is not for you to interfere, to come between a father and His son.” With a smile he concluded. “That bond is sacred.”
Melusine struggled to gather her wits, but it was nearly impossible to even form a sentence. Her father was surprised she was still conscious let alone talking. There were near two hundred dead all about them, their deaths, blood, and tortured souls had over saturated the three of them.
Asmodeus began murmuring and tracing damned patterns, sigils through the air. Normally they would have to come closer for his incantation to cover the physical space each inhabited but with the gluttony of released energy and stored power the massacre had generated he saw no need for frugality. They had accumulated enough energy to have gone to Hell and back dozens of times, yet he chose to squander the power needed, to use more than was necessary to bring them to their Lord. After all there would be plenty of it to go around when they returned to claim the world from the cattle who peopled it and to make their Prince, their Redeemer follow his destiny and bend the knee to Fate.
Epiphalogue
The eerie saw playing music continued to sound after Chief Bromden walked off into the distance and to his freedom. Adam read the credits over the big Indian’s running form but didn’t register what he saw. They were alphabetical with Michael Berryman portraying Ellis down past Scatman Crothers in the role of Turkle. It was perfect closure for the past year where he was fractured, broken and in pieces. Nitzche’s haunting song
Medication Valse
moved Adam to tears, and in the darkness of the rest of the closing credits, he let them stream down his face. Beside him Didier breathed lightly, and asleep, with his head tilted back on the edge of his seat. Adam was glad not to have to explain himself.
He just sat in the darkness while the half empty theater emptied completely and let his life sink in. He didn’t think on the realities inherent with being the personification of evil’s son, he only thought on what made his life worth living. It was all on the screen, in the past hour and a half, and change. Even in the nice people who brought him here.
He wanted to live his life without caring for an explanation of anything. That was for philosophers and theologians, and he was neither. He would find meaning in the transcendent, the unexplainable. He would find it while others lived as they wished, whether it was to fall asleep or to leave looking to find somebody and miss the experience that still held him.
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Book One: Predatory Ethics
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About Athanasios
Athanasios has been interested in religion & faith since childhood. This led to studying a bewildering variety of beliefs from pagan, wicca, judaism, christianity, islam, to hindu, buddhism, shinto, luciferianism & much more.
The interest made its own momentum & brought Mad Gods. His other interests include most entertainment, from film, to television & books.
He won’t try video games for the same reason he doesn’t keep his favourite booze in the house; he would do nothing else.
There was a short time that he was into World of Warcraft but that became the obsession he knew it would be. He had to leave it for a deeper & more engrossing one: Predatory Ethics with Mad Gods & Commitment.
His longtime work in the graphics field has given him the facility to do his own covers. He also creates custom covers for other indie authors @:
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