We did speak, eventually. I had misunderstood the nature of his silence for a very long time. In truth, he wished to spare me from something painful.
[ To beings such as them, bound by purpose, what could be worse than being deemed useless? His existence served no purpose, as a substitute for someone who would never need one.
There is an element of cruelty, he thinks, in tasking Lucifer to create his own replacement. In not telling him what he had truly been tasked with.
But in the end... Here he is, fulfilling the role he had never been expected to play. ]
He did not realize that I overheard him asking and the answer he received. So I learned the truth when he did, but not how he felt about it...not for millennia.
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[ To beings such as them, bound by purpose, what could be worse than being deemed useless? His existence served no purpose, as a substitute for someone who would never need one.
There is an element of cruelty, he thinks, in tasking Lucifer to create his own replacement. In not telling him what he had truly been tasked with.
But in the end... Here he is, fulfilling the role he had never been expected to play. ]
He did not realize that I overheard him asking and the answer he received. So I learned the truth when he did, but not how he felt about it...not for millennia.