Chapter 40
Galactic Standard Date: 152,096.07
Haven-1: Eternal Palace
Young Lucifer - Age 15
225 Years Ago…
YOUNG LUCIFER
"Lucifer," Mama called. "We're going to be late."
I gave my Nehru jacket one last tug to make sure the collar was straight and hurried out of my room. Mama wore that frazzled, overscheduled look she'd been wearing ever since I'd convinced Father to put her to work. Tending to the details of Father's lesser diplomatic missions kept her too busy to sit in her room and pine away for some loss she refused to speak of. She wore black, as she had every day of my life that I could remember, but she looked pretty today, with a bit of pink in her cheeks to draw attention to her unearthly blue eyes, so different from my own.
I puffed out my chest and jutted my chin into t
