Every lightning strike produces a little burst of X-rays. Sometimes, this
makes Jean wonder what an X-ray of Lilith's head would reveal. Or, for
preference, her cleaned and dried skull on an examination table, of
course...
Jean does not concern himself much with Lilith directly. Clearly, he must
spend the plurality of his moral energy in countering Vapula, and most of
the rest in equipping the Host, guiding human technological progress, and so
on. But he spares some time to think about Lilith. "Lightning" is not a
perfect translation of his Word, you see; it's more like "forces of nature"
-- force contrasted with matter, including electromagnetic force but not
limited to it. And his Word centers on (or he makes it center on) the role
of those forces in shaping the raw chaos of mass/energy. It's all about
control, you see. And that's what Lilith flouts.
But about her skull:
Modern humans were not very numerous or widespread back in the days of the
Eden experiment. It didn't take long after Adam and Eve were expelled from
the Garden for every human on the planet to carry some of their genes. (In
fact, it took a remarkably short time, which Jean takes to indicate meddling
by someone ... or Someone.) And ever since then, all human faces have borne
more or less resemblance to those two faces -- faces handcrafted by God.
It's nothing big, nothing mortal paleontologists could notice at their level
of expertise. But Jean can see it; besides, he can just remember what
pre-Adamite faces looked like; he doesn't have to reconstruct them. Not to
mention Adam's face, and Eve's.
So every one of us has some resemblance to Father Adam or Mother Eve
haunting our faces. But not Auntie Lilith. If you ever saw her face to
face -- and in her proper body, not in a vessel -- you could see it.
Well, you could see it if you were Jean, or Jordi, or one of the other few
and ancient celestials who take an interest in the fine points of anatomy.
Otherwise, you'd just see that Lilith's face is exotically beautiful, which
is just what you'd expect.
But her face, too, was handcrafted by God. And it's unique. She has no
children of her body, only the "daughters" she sings up out of the Forces
she cadges. She hates childbirth; she punishes it.
But, for some time now, there have been other ways Lilith's genes could
enter the world. Surrogate motherhood. Human cloning. And more tricks on
the horizon. (No, Jean won't tell you what those might be.) What would
such a child be? It wouldn't be a Grigori Child or a Nephal, because Lilith
is human. A unique human, uniquely made by God, uniquely Worded by Lucifer.
The child would be unprecedented. Or children. And it (or they) would
certainly be part of an Infernal Plot(tm).
Jean does not know of any likely plot. But he realizes the possibility. It
doesn't occupy a lot of his time, but he does not forget about it either.
People stare at lightning in fear, or awe, or surprise, or delight.
Sometimes, the lightning is looking back. Studying their faces.
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