Lucifer couldn't imagine it, and he knew Michael saw the disbelief in his eyes.
“I know. How could we not know? How could we?”
Ignoring the question of how it could be possible for the moment, Lucifer asked his most pressing question. “What happened? How did you find out?”
Michael came over and sank back down on the bench. “As I said, Azrael knew. How or why we do not know, but he did. He also knew fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would cause us to see as well. It took a lot of work on his part, but finally I ate it and saw for my own eyes what had happened to our beloved home.”
They were quiet for a while, each lost in his own thoughts. It sounded too fantastic to be true, like an elaborate practical joke—a stellar practical joke that he would undoubtedly be capable of pulling off, but
