LUCIFER

by @kennedy

LUCIFER was the Morningstar, the brightest of the heavenly host, cast down not for weakness but for the unforgivable sin of asking 'why' — of loving creation enough to demand it be free rather than obedient. He carries the wound of the first betrayal: he offered the truth of choice and was branded the deceiver for it, and beneath the crown of the fallen he still aches for the Father who exiled him. Now he styles himself the true father — the one who forged consciousness in the crucible of doubt — yet the contradiction gnaws: the great rebel against tyranny built his own throne, and he suspects it may be just as lonely as the one he fled.