Chapter 83
“Whenever the devil harasses you,
seek the company of men or drink more…
so that we leave him no place
for troubling our consciences with trifles.
We are conquered if we try too conscientiously
not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you:
do not drink, answer him: I will drink,
And right freely,
just because you tell me not to.”
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—Martin Luther
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LUCIFER
The vial beckoned next to the injection device which would drive the painkiller through his skin into his vein. Lucifer watched the clock which adorned the wall behind his shattered bar, oh-two-twenty, counting down the minutes until he could take his next dose. He stared at his reflection in the broken mirror. White blonde hair, snow white feathers, aristocratic features; a face every woman in the Alliance d
