de Rais watches some of the enormous mechanical horses that drew the Great Furnace across the red sand. powered by gaseous wrath and the trapped demonic essences of hell’s traitorous generals.
always an insurrection. always a rebellion. it was stamped into their very being, their history. who came to hell if not the rebellious, those who would fight against authority? but rules are etched into the substances of the firmament, top to bottom, and derived from the true authority of the Creator.
those who fell. not even capable of truth to each other. the power in being subordinate to the will that binds.
de Rais knew them all, of course. he’s scoffed at their carnal virtues, the freak degeneracies of ambition that gave them the arrogance to think they could topple the throne infernal.
his brother, their king, was one of the demiurgos, power beyond the ken of even archangels the Creator’s very light pouring through him, even in exile. to kill Lucifer would be to snuff out the suns, to destroy the silences in between words, to rend the fragile curtain over the firmament with grotesque damage.
