Beëlzebub Lucifer

Lately, I’ve taken to waking up early…before everyone else, that is.  Most of my brothers usually wake up just in time to Eat Breakfast (which I make since they have absolutely no skill at all in the Kitchen), and then rush off to their job.

But I like to go on the balcony and watch the sun rise.  A part of me can’t understand how the God who is capable of so much cruelty is also capable of such beauty…but the rest of me just likes watching it.

It seems as though time slows during the sunrise…like the petty little arguments and snarls of life, mortal or immortal, fade away in the presence of the sun, slowly lifting its bulk up over the horizon.  The sky itself is struck with emotion at the sun’s coming…perhaps it is embarrassed at having been so dark for so long, perhaps it is joyful at no longer being dark, perhaps even it welcomes the sun.

Footsteps and a wild stirring in the mindscape alert me to Belial’s presence; we’d finally gotten him out of that institution about a week ago.  He slowly makes his way across the living room towards the open door leading out to the balcony, and he curls up on a chair near to where I sit.  Other than the ever-present ripple of his madness in the mindscape, he is completely silent in both worlds, looking out through my eyes at the rising sun.

The normal sounds of New York life float up to our ears, clearer to Belial’s than to mine.  He reaches out to hold my hand, seeking comfort from all the noise; I let him hold it.  Belz goodfeel?  he wonders.

Yes, I agree.  I don’t bother trying to attempt his style of speech without Satan nearby.

Pretty colors? he asks, showing me an image of the sunrise as he sees it; the image is colored as much by his emotions as by what is truly there.  Strangely, the buildings don’t seem to exist for him, although for me, they all but block off my distant view of the sunrise and Central Park.

Yes, I agree again, and both of us are silent for a few moments again.

Then he surprises me, sounding almost lucid for a change.  All should do; peace-moment make goodfeel, stop evilbad/worldproblem nolookup.