#Chapter 52: Preferential Treatment

Who is Lilith? I opened my mouth. Closed it. Opened it again. Closed it. Did I just mention Lilith to Asher? I replayed the conversation in my head. Oh, no. I had. This exhaustion must have been affecting me more than I thought. I was getting too careless. I trusted Asher so I let my guard down. “Um,” I said eloquently. I tried again, “Lilith is…” Would it be so bad to tell the truth? Lilith herself was remaining strangely quiet on the matter. So I tried asking her directly, speaking in my mind, “I messed up. What should I do, Lilith?” “If you tell him, you must be sure,” Lilith said. “You must consider all consequences.” Lilith brought forth some images into my mind of a figure with my shape and form strapped to a doctor’s table, being experimented upon. “You are special,” Lilith said. “You called me forth earlier than I would have otherwise appeared. If that truth is discovered, people would want to know why. They will learn about your pregnancy, and share this anomaly.” F