br/> "Im having a hard time with this poor, poor, pitiful me line, Count. Lucifer. What should I call you?"
"Anything you want, just dont call me later for dinner," Lucifer said. He looked Spyder in the eye. "The truth will set you free. But it might also hurt your feelings: You see, humanity isnt even on my radar. My quarrel is with Heaven, not you. "
Spyder looked at Lucifers palace, thinking over everything hed seen and heard. "Youre my friend. At least Count Non was. I dont really know what to believe right now. "
"Admit it. You want me to be a monster. Humanity has to find someone to blame for its crimes. The problem is that you never really believed Copernicus. You still think youre the center of the universe and that all creation revolves around you. "
"Youve been practicing this speech for a while, havent you?"
"Ill give you an another example. The snake in the garden of Eden?"
"Yeah?"
"It was just a snake. I was never there. Humanitys first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. Thats the reason I make you uncomfortable. Were so much alike. " Lucifer leaned closer, speaking quietly. "In Heaven I tempted mortals for Gods benefit. Its a hard habit to break. But I always worked on the little things. Lust. Jealousy. Greed. Humanity didnt need any help with the big sins. It was you who ate the apple and fell from grace. It was you when Carthage was raped and burned and the earth salted. It was you at Hiroshima and Wounded Knee and Auschwitz and at every lynching of every -hapless sharecropper who dared to meet the eyes of a white woman. "
"You must really hate us. If we didnt exist, youd still be in Heaven. "
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