"I am sorry, Father," Lucifer placed his hand over his heart as Abaddon had done, but did not kneel or bow his head. "Other duties waylaid me. I am only mortal."
Abaddon squelched the urge to point out that he, himself, had only just arrived. Lucifer tucked his snowy white wings against his back in a neat dress wings formation and waited, an obedience he knew the gifted politician feigned simply to annoy his father.
There was a pregnant pause…
"Do you know why you have all been summoned?" Hashem asked.
Pregnant … Abaddon gave Lucifer a furtive glance and wondered who else Lucifer had been 'gifting' human females to. Admiral Atagartis? No. The Mer-Levi had no problem reproducing since they had discovered a colony of sentient Leviathans descended from the same animal root-stock that Hash
