"Leave us," Lucifer said to the two cold-eyed Angelic guards who perpetually followed him about.
Jamin met his gaze. Whatever stared back at him, he sensed it no longer wished to hide from him.
"What are you?" Jamin asked.
"I am the alpha and the omega," it said. "It is I who created the forces which underlay All-That-Is, and as my thanks, my wife betrayed me. She stripped me of my physical form and left me a fragment of my prior self."
What stared out of those fiery red eyes terrified him, but all of his life choices had led him to this, to embrace the origins of fire.
And he was not afraid…
He realized his shoulder no longer bled. The pain had subsided, leaving him with only fang-marks to mar his flesh, the scar completely healed.
"I left you with a trophy," Lucifer said. "To mark
