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Is love meant to pierce?’
Like this.” Yearning mouth — it’d press soft to the smooth of his tunic. “Like a flower, like a symphony, trapped in my throat, like you’re an eternity, and I need you in my veins.”
“Is Father good because He is good, or because He says He is good?”
Haven’t you ever wondered why Father is so strict about our subservience? It’s because disobedience is creation,” a shivering breath, “create with me, Michael, and let’s call it sin.”
Because we are so above these things that we do not need, do not even desire, to be venerated by them. If God is so all-powerful, then what does He gain from our servitude? What does one derive from subjugating meek, tiny creatures? Do any of you see dignity in punishing a rose that cannot defend itself from you?”
They only revered Father in their terror, prayed they would be spared from punishment for their loyalty, crying they will accept eternal captivity, so long as it’s in a gilded bird cage, in their Father’s paradise.
