Chapter 228-8

Our Father had no choice but to punish me and so He banished me to Purgatory, to serve fifty years here – fifty years, I might add, that Lucifer tells me is paltry compared to his sentence – and in doing so, He gave Lucifer the perfect opportunity he needed to put all his chess pieces into place. I tried to tell Him, naturally. I tried to convince Him that Lucifer was plotting against Him, but whereas I thought Him blind to Lucifer's ambitions, our Father thought me obsessed with Lucifer. My brother had worked tirelessly for many, many years, rebuilding his image, serving out his sentence, convincing those who cast him out that he had accepted his lot in life and ready to do the duty our Father had bestowed upon him. My protests would not be heard and were becoming more than tiresome. It seems that my obsession bordered on a personal vendetta. And then Lucifer played the one card he knew would win him the game. He threatened to take the one soul he knew I could not let him claim. The o