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 Written in cooperation with 
            Alexis Haines, Housewife; John Thundercloud, WinnebagaIndian; Sharon Gilbert, MythArc; and Don Thomason, Glastonbury Pilgrimage
 Committee. This story is a revision of the origianal THE BENE ELOHIM 
            and includes
 the updated version that brings us to understand why the oldest continuing 
            royal family in
 the world, the British Windsors, have not only prospered but continue 
            to rule a lot of
 God's kingdom today.
 The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version: 
            GENESIS 6:1-2: And it came to pass,when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters 
            were born unto them,
 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; 
            and they took them
 wives of all which they chose.
 "And again the Lord said to Raphael: 
            'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into thedarkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and 
            cast him therein.
 And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, 
            and let him
 abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 
            And on the day of the
 great judgement he shall be cast into the fire... ...And the whole 
            Earth has been corrupted
 through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin." 
            The Book of Enoch
 "Now it came to pass, when men began 
            to multiply on the face of the Earth, anddaughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters 
            of men, that they
 were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they 
            chose." Genesis 6:1
 THE SONS OF GOD I lie in darkness. No light, no food, no water 
            has reached me for thousands of years andyet still I live, buried until Earth's final day. The archangel Raphael 
            imprisoned me here.
 Oh, I fought him; but his strength was far greater than mine and besides, 
            our Lord was not
 about to let him fail. His anger was beyond even my imagination, when 
            it came.
 Truthfully I had always known it would end like this. I accept. So 
            I lay in darkness, a
 silent captive beneath a dry desert mountain, awaiting the Day of 
            Judgment. On that day I
 shall be thrown into the fires to burn, and burn, and still not die. 
            I accept. Given enough
 time, you can.
 I am Azazel. To me has been ascribed all sin, 
            beyond even that of beautiful Eve. For this,I pay. But for all time, while I wait and while I burn, I shall remember. 
            And smile.
 In my disgrace I am unknown now, as are my 
            brethren who came with me to Earth. Alltwo hundred of us lie buried or destroyed. But I remember how once 
            I was an angel of the
 Cherubim, the guardians of the fixed stars, and keepers of celestial 
            records. And I
 remember brave, blazing Shemyaza, a Seraph, higher and closer to our 
            Lord than me. He
 knew well what risk we ran. He had already seen Satanel, another Seraph 
            and the greatest
 of us all, thrown from Heaven with all his followers. Yes, the once 
            bright and shining
 morning star, thrown from heaven! It shook Shemyaza hard. Yet Shemyaza 
            had wanted it
 as much as I, and so he overcame his fear and bound all two hundred 
            of us in a solemn
 oath. We all swore to do it. Our Lord sent the archangel Michael, 
            the warrior who will
 call us all to the flames one day, to deal with Shemyaza. Oh, terrible 
            Michael! How we
 feared him, in the end. Once we looked down on Michael from a greater 
            height,
 Shemyaza and me. Now we lie in the belly of the earth on which we 
            once walked with
 such wanton joy.
 Before we left our heavenly dominions, we 
            two hundred were beings of light and fire, theSons of God, the Bene Elohim in the ancient tongue. We were also called 
            the Watchers,
 because our Lord chose us to watch over the children, Adam and Eve. 
            And so we did not
 support Satanel when he refused to kneel before them. Although we 
            felt for Satanel and
 understood his agony and rejection, we did not join his rebellion; 
            instead, we kept apart
 from the war, kept our hearts and minds on the children as He had 
            ordered us to do. On
 the day he fell, Satanel cursed us for standing aside. On that day, 
            we should have taken
 heed.
 The watching of the new creation was a solemn 
            duty to us, at first. The gentle creatureswere frail, being of the Earth. Death was not in the Garden, nor disease 
            or sickness; they
 lived in the sustaining grace around them, but they did not have our 
            power. And there
 were other differences. We were created with the knowledge of all 
            things, while Adam
 and Eve were innocent and unknowing. They were ignorant of good and 
            evil, the ways of
 the Earth and the order of things. They lived as our Lord intended, 
            knowing nothing of
 desire, fear or pain. We were charged with a great responsibility; 
            to watch the children,
 always, to ensure they never changed. We were the Watchers.
 We did not reveal ourselves except as streams 
            of daylight through cloudy skies ormoonlight on murmuring streams. Unseen, we walked beside them and 
            listened to their
 childlike chatter, flew beside them as they ran through the grassy, 
            open places and sat
 beside them in the fern-filled woods on temperate summer days. Slowly, 
            our solemn
 responsibility gave way to enjoyment of them. We caressed their skin 
            with gentle breezes,
 filled their nostrils with the fragrance of roses, and gladdened their 
            sight with wild
 flowers everywhere. They laughed at the simplest of pleasures, and 
            it made us love them.
 We put seeds in their hands, induced them to bury them and, to their 
            wide-eyed joy and
 wonder, we made the Garden abundant for them. Nothing failed them, 
            including us. The
 years went by and the children were safe, and truly loved, in our 
            care.
 How it was that he slipped by us, I will never 
            know. He had always been the mightiestamongst us, the prince of the angels, and I suppose we never thought 
            Satanel could
 conceive of such malice. Certainly, we could not. We never once thought 
            of how he had
 cursed us, as he fell. Had we become careless after all those years, 
            that we left Eve so
 alone? We asked ourselves many questions after that fateful day. Poor 
            Eve!
 We never guarded the Trees; we just turned 
            the children away gently if they strayed tooclose. The fruits from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil were 
            forbidden to them,
 as were the fruits of the Tree of Life. They knew this, although they 
            did not know why;
 sweet, simple things, they never questioned why. But their grace was 
            dependent entirely
 upon their ignorance. Which they lost, of course, the instant they 
            ate from the first Tree.
 Our poor, confused children were thrown out! 
            They were driven from their home beforethey could understand anything of what they now felt; shame, fear, 
            turmoil and despair.
 They were driven out on our account, for now we could not be trusted 
            to keep them from
 the Tree of Life. We failed, and it was Adam and Eve who paid.
 In mute shock, we watched them go. Later we 
            questioned the justice of it, but at the timewe could do no more than stand in silent, heart-wrenching sorrow as 
            our children were
 driven out of the Garden, to first begin their struggle to survive.
 Looking back now, I see how it changed us. 
            It was not only Adam and Eve who fell fromgrace. When Satanel shamed us, when the children were expelled for 
            our complacency,
 we knew guilt for the first time. We never admitted it, even to ourselves, 
            I think; but in
 each of us there grew a private resentment. Though our hearts were 
            changed, we did not
 yet dare to disobey our Lord. From our remote height in the heavens 
            we continued to
 watch; but we no longer watched for Him. Now, we watched for us.
 We had taught them well in the Garden. Adam 
            and Eve survived. In time, they eventaught us something. They turned to each other for comfort in their 
            misery and, for the
 first time, we watched them copulate.
 Shemyaza and I shared a special curiosity 
            in the children's procreation. It was somethingour Lord had not explained to us, we having no need of the knowledge. 
            But it was like a
 dance to us, and it fascinated Shemyaza, especially. When he chanced 
            upon a coupling,
 he would find me to watch with him, to watch the rising pleasure and 
            to smell the copious
 release, and later we marked together the swelling of the women's 
            bellies and breasts.
 Then when the women suckled their babies, we watched in silent wonder 
            and moved our
 lips to the sounds, the like of which we had never heard before.
 The women were a mystery to us. Across the 
            airless void, Shemyaza was drawn to themand so was I. But our fascination troubled us and to indulge it felt 
            like betrayal, so we
 never spoke of it. But this, now, I understand: if you do not voice 
            your longing, it will
 grow. It grew in Shemyaza, as well as me. As it turned out, we were 
            not the only ones.
 It was the silver-shining Jeqon, a Watcher 
            of the lower angels, who brought it all to ahead as he, Shemyaza and I watched Eve planting seeds one fine autumn 
            day.
 "Why do we stay apart from them?" 
            he asked. "Why?" Shemyaza answered, amazed 
            at the question, "Because that is the Earth, Jeqon,and we are celestial beings. We belong here, in the heavens."
 "That's not an answer. If it's the only 
            one you've got, I say we should be there with them." "Are you angry with me? Jeqon, I only 
            offer what I know." I, too, caught his rebuke. It wasn't his question 
            that stunned me, it was his audacity. Thiswas not the way to put a question to an angel of either the Seraphim 
            or Cherubim. Jeqon's
 tone was sharp and accusatory. I could see Shemyaza considering him, 
            wondering if he
 had been encouraged to be so brave.
 "Well know this, both of you; I am sick 
            to my core with their suffering. They've gonefrom ease and joy, to fear and abject misery and we've done nothing 
            but watch from our
 glorious heaven!"
 His spitting contempt stung, but as I watched 
            Eve drop seeds into the stony holes she'dmade, I remembered our Lord's commands. "We were told not to 
            interfere, Jeqon, it is
 forbidden." I answered, softly. "We are to watch them, only. 
            What would you have us
 do?"
 "Convene the Watchers. Let me speak to 
            them, if you will not. I say again, we should bethere with them!"
 I deferred to my brother, as usual. "Shemyaza? 
            You are the highest among us, what doyou say? Shall we discuss it?"
 Shemyaza's eyes were darkly glowing in his 
            golden, radiant face, his gaze intent uponEve's sweat-streaked, dirty body. His words came slowly.
 "I remember the commands. I know it is 
            forbidden, and I do not wish to deceive. But Iremember nothing about where we were to watch from, Azazel, do you? 
            What if we
 watched them from on the Earth, just to be closer to them? There would 
            be no harm, and
 perhaps we could comfort them with our presence." Suddenly he 
            turned to me, "For
 myself, I only want to be closer to them. It's the women, Azazel." 
            He would not say more
 in front of Jeqon.
 It is tragic now, to remember the pleading 
            in his eyes as he asked me to know his heart,finally, and my own swift surge of hope. Oh, Shemyaza, I already knew 
            your heart
 because I knew my own! From that moment, the rest was inevitable.
 And so it was me who coolly said, "Call 
            the Watchers, Jeqon. If we all agree, then we'llgo down and walk amongst them." But then I looked directly into 
            Shemyaza's face,
 "Know this, though; if we do more than watch, then it may go 
            badly with us. Let us be
 clear on that, when we decide." I swear I saw flames in his eyes. 
            I wonder now; was the
 fire his, or was it the reflection of my own?
 When the two hundred met, Jeqon put the case 
            for descending. He quoted Shemyaza.That was clever because all of us, including me, respected Shemyaza 
            and considered him
 our leader. Among the Watchers, Shemyaza's word was law. If they knew 
            Shemyaza had
 said we might go down, then they would listen. Jeqon spoke carefully, 
            and well. In fact,
 those who knew his usual boyish enthusiasm would say he had been coached.
 Then the massive red fire of Gadreel, another 
            of the lower angels, pushed his way to thefront. His deeply resonating voice spoke clear and loud. True to his 
            nature, he scorned our
 compromises and threw the Fall in all our faces.
 "What does it matter where we watch from, 
            if all we do is watch their slow death? Lookat them! They scavenge from the land, and barely have grain enough 
            for their daily bread.
 Who among us does not feel responsible? Does it seem enough to you, 
            to go down and be
 hidden among them, just to watch them? What good is that? I say we 
            go down, and I say
 we go as men!" A ripple of anxiety spread through the throng. 
            "Yes! Let us do more than
 watch! Let us repay the debt we owe them. Let us help them and work 
            beside them! We
 owe them this!"
 A few turned silently to each other to gauge 
            their brothers' reactions, uncertain how torespond. They were tense, guarded, but none turned away. Then quiet 
            Araziel spoke,
 softly shimmering in the muted colors of Earth's sunsets. His voice 
            was the hush of the
 end of the day.
 "It is true, we all have knowledge they 
            can use. Gadreel, you know metal craft and canteach them how to make tools. Penemue, you know the properties of 
            all the plants and
 can help improve their nutrition. There is so much we can do, all 
            of us. For myself, I
 know the ways of the Earth. I see how the harvests have failed, and 
            what the grains need.
 I will teach the children these things. And when I do, I will work 
            alongside them so that I
 can train them and make their learning complete. I will not be hidden, 
            and I will not
 appear to them as I am now. I will be as a man. And as a man, I will 
            take a woman."
 Finally, it had been said. His softly spoken 
            words crashed into them like a meteor. TheWatchers burst into uproar, arguments for and against surging like 
            a solar storm around
 them. Shemyaza's glowing light paled. "Azazel, what have we done? 
            This goes too far.
 Speak to them!" Quickly, I stood forward.
 "Araziel, your gifts would ensure the 
            life of the children, and Gadreel, yours too. But weare not men! Listen to me! Listen!" the conflagration died down, 
            and they turned to hear
 me. With some, their eyes were wild; some were defiant, some were 
            frightened. The
 Watchers had never been divided before, not even when Satanel had 
            asked us to join his
 war.
 "Think about what you are saying, Araziel, 
            and you others who agree. To interfere in theway we speak of is against the commands, this you well know; but if 
            it is to sustain our
 Lord's creation, then perhaps we may be forgiven. And you, who disagree, 
            you must
 know that if we are to teach skills in earnest then we must show the 
            children how these
 things are done. These are not things that can happen as if by accident, 
            as we taught them
 in the Garden. So we must be as men, if we agree to show them the 
            ways." All the
 Watchers nodded, murmured their agreement; so far, so good.
 But the question was no longer 'shall we go 
            down?' or even 'shall we go down as men?'but now, 'shall we take women?' Shemyaza hissed a low warning in my 
            ear, "Mark well
 your next words, Azazel. They will be remembered."
 I took a breath, and spoke as reasonably as 
            I could. "Watchers, to appear as men and tolive as men are two distinct things. If we give up our power and take 
            on the bodies of
 men, then we may teach them well. But we still belong to our Lord. 
            Whatever we think of
 what happened, and yes, I know you think of it, we are still His. 
            If we lay with the
 women, then we cheat Him. It is betrayal, Watchers. It is Sin. Think 
            on it. When we are
 ready, we will decide. We will decide as one!"
 They discussed it a long time, in pairs and 
            in little groups. Some stood a way off andwatched the children while they considered alone. Shemyaza and I watched 
            the children
 too, while we waited, saying nothing until Shemyaza said to me, "Azazel, 
            whatever they
 decide, and they will decide to go down it's just a matter of how, 
            I am the highest one.
 They listen best to you, but I am the one who will bear the wrath, 
            if it goes badly. I don't
 want to be the scapegoat."
 "Tell them your fear, Shemyaza. You may 
            find they will have consideration for yourposition. If our decision is to go down as men, and to take women 
            as men, then make
 every one of us swear to it before we go. Then no Watcher can ever 
            say that what he did,
 he did only in obedience to you."
 And that is how it was done. That is how I 
            doomed us all. THE DAUGHTERS OF EVE The Bene Elohim, the Sons of God, made friends 
            with my son Cain and his people first. Ididn't know them then, because after the terrible thing Cain did, 
            he left Adam and me. I
 don't know which hurt me the most; that, or the killing of my beautiful 
            Abel. Anyway,
 Cain made his own life away from our community. My daughter, Awan, 
            went with him to
 be his wife. So I lost three of my children that day. Adam said Cain 
            had to go, even
 though I begged him not to drive him off. No use, of course. He wouldn't 
            even talk about
 it. He just reminded me that, here on Earth, God made men master over 
            women. It was a
 long time before I could bear him near me again, after that.
 So anyway the Bene Elohim came down and met 
            up with Cain first. I heard about it fromAwan when she came to visit one day. No need to tell me something 
            was up; she looked a
 sight, I can tell you.
 She came riding into our village on a white 
            ass, with a gaggle of her women in tow. Myson Seth and my daughter, Azura, were working in the fields with their 
            boy Enos. Their
 girl, Noam, was helping me to fire the new pots. She had an eye for 
            her brother already,
 much the way Awan had for Cain when she was her age, so I kept her 
            out of the fields
 until she was old enough to marry. It wouldn't be long; my daughters 
            have always been
 ready for baby-making.
 "Mother! Mother! Look who has come to 
            see you!" My beautiful, tall Awan with theflowing red hair ran across our village center and caught me up in 
            her long bare arms,
 giggling and swinging me about until my heart melted for the love 
            of her.
 "Awan, my fine daughter, what have you 
            to say for yourself? I have not seen you for toolong! Let me look at you... what have you done to yourself? Noam, 
            look at this!" Noam
 ran over to see.
 "Oh, Aunt Awan you have patterns all 
            over you! They are so beautiful! See, Eve, they areon her hands and all along her arms and, oh, they don't rub off! And 
            your golden dress,
 Auntie, where did you get it? What is it made from? Look Eve, it is 
            so fine, you can see
 through it!" All the women were giggling helplessly, nudging 
            each other and whispering
 behind their hands.
 "The patterns are stained in my skin, 
            Noam. They will fade away eventually." Awanexplained. This material will last longer; it is called byssus and 
            it comes from animals
 that live in the sea. They live in shells, and grip the rocks with 
            fine threads, and people
 make byssus from those threads."
 "How do they make it, and what is the 
            sea? Can we have one here? If they lived in a seahere, would someone make a dress like this for me?" The poor 
            girl blushed at the
 uproarious howls of Awan's tribeswomen, but in truth I understood 
            little more than she
 did.
 "Awan has a lot to tell us, Noam, let 
            us make her and her tribeswomen comfortable. Fetchwater for them to wash and put bread and fruits on the table under 
            the shade trees.
 Quickly now!"
 When we were settled, Awan told me of her 
            visitors. "They say there are more of them,but there are just ten in our village. They have been with us for 
            two years now. They
 won't talk of where they came from but they are different from us, 
            many of them have
 golden hair and blue eyes, Mother, can you imagine? Blue, like the 
            sky! They built homes
 for themselves in our community. But they go about on their journeys, 
            sometimes they are
 gone for weeks, and when they return they have many things for us 
            that they give us for
 nothing in return. Oh, and Mother, they have taught us so much! So 
            many things have
 changed. You must come, and bring Seth and Azura and the children, 
            bring the whole
 village! You see how well we look, we owe it all to them and you should 
            live so well too.
 Say you'll come?"
 "Easy, girl. I have seen such as you 
            speak of before. I know where they come from. I don'tknow why they have come. Do you know? Hmm?"
 Awan had the decency to blush, and lower her 
            eyes. Nothing in return, indeed! "Cain doesnot mind, Mother. He says they have spoken of many more things they 
            can do for us. It
 pleases him that they stay."
 I passed her a pot of dates. "Eat, and 
            tell me." As she reached for one she asked, "You 
            see my hands?" How could I not? Her fingernailswere stained deep red, her hands and arms trellised in dark brown 
            and red patterns. The
 artistry was of another world. I saw the swirl of water streaming 
            around a stone, the long
 fringed spread of a senna leaf, the tiny petals of wildflowers, the 
            furl of a dove's downy
 breast feather. My daughter's hands and arms were living glimpses 
            of the Garden. They
 had made her a messenger, sent her to tell me they were here. My throat 
            tightened, my
 eyes stung, my heart grew heavy for my divided family and our lost 
            paradise. But Awan
 had never heard of the Garden; to her, she was made beautiful with 
            pretty patterns, that
 was all.
 "Mother, you do not like it?" "No, Awan, I like it, I am just in awe 
            of it. Tell me how it was done. Tell me this artist'sname."
 "He is called Azazel. Oh, he is tall, 
            his eyes are the darkest blue, his hair is blue-black inthe sun, and when he looks at me I feel like he can see right into 
            me. Cain does not look
 at me the way he does. Azazel makes me feel, oh, I don't know, I feel 
            like the air is light
 when he is near me and I must breathe deeper to keep from falling. 
            Does that sound silly?
 My heart beats stronger near him. It was like that from the moment 
            I first saw him." She
 fell quiet.
 'She misses him,' I thought. I could not chide 
            her for her roving eye; I, too, knew loss oflove.
 "Oh, I must tell you! You remember our 
            son, Enoch? He is fifteen and married now. Hegot a horrible skin infection this spring. It frightened me; his legs 
            were red and itching
 and it was spreading. Then Azazel's friend, Shemyaza, came and said 
            he knew a plant that
 would cure it. He came back later that day with a plant from the marshes; 
            he called it
 henna. He ground the leaves and mixed in oil and made a paste. Then 
            he and Azazel
 smeared it all over Enoch's legs and the itching stopped right away. 
            They did this for three
 days and after they washed him clean on the fourth day there was no 
            sign of the contagion
 and it didn't come back! Shemyaza is beautiful too, Mother, and so 
            wise! He knows all
 the plants and what illnesses they can cure."
 "That is truly useful and I am glad for 
            Enoch, then, that they were there. So... tell meabout these designs, daughter! Who did them, Shemyaza or Azazel?"
 "Well I'm getting to that. After they 
            had cured Enoch, they told me about henna. Theysaid they used the marsh plants on Enoch because those grow differently 
            from the shrubs
 in the dry lands. Azazel said the marsh plants would not mark Enoch's 
            skin, but if they
 had used the leaves of the dry growing henna, then Enoch's skin would 
            have been stained
 and it would take many days for it to fade. Azazel was drawing on 
            a slab of clay while he
 talked, and then he showed me the design he had made."
 "He asked me if I liked it, and when 
            I said it was strange but beautiful, he said that wasjust how I was to him. And he said that, if I let him, he would paint 
            his designs on me
 with henna so everyone could see how he saw me." It had taken 
            some time for her to
 summon up her courage, but a few days ago she had gone to him.
 My daughter's eyes were distant as she described 
            how he had painted her. She had gone tohis house in the dry heat of the afternoon while the others slept 
            and, while his friend
 watched, Azazel had untied her dress and slipped it down from around 
            her. He had laid
 her down gently, naked to her waist, on his cot. With his long, cool 
            fingers he had washed
 her, tracing the patterns he wanted to draw in little rivers on her 
            skin, whispering to her
 how each curve would be made to charm all who looked upon her. Then, 
            after he had
 dried her, he had patiently trailed the henna paste in fine, ornate 
            designs on her hands,
 feet, arms and breasts. He sat with her while it dried on her skin, 
            keeping her still and
 wide-eyed with promises of other things he would do to make her beautiful 
            beyond
 compare. As the paste had dried and flaked off, he had blown it away 
            gently with his cool
 breath to reveal the patterns beneath, deeply stained in her skin.
 She told me no one had ever made her feel 
            like that. When I asked, 'like what?' shesimply whispered, "Cherished".
 Awan described how he had smoothed the last 
            of the henna from her breasts, then, asShemyaza watched from across the room, he had gripped each of her 
            nipples and slowly
 rolled them between his index fingers and thumbs until they swelled. 
            Smiling down at
 her, he had bent his head to suck first one, then the other, and she 
            had felt the yearning
 build between her legs. "He was so slow, Mother, it was such 
            rapture," she told me.
 He had pulled away his skirt to show her his 
            rigid and distended state. "For you, beautifulAwan," he had told her. She had expected him to mount her then, 
            and spread her legs for
 him, but he did not take her. Instead, he spread her lips and held 
            them open while he slid
 the tip of one finger between them, drawing the juices from her and 
            spreading them
 around and around her little tongue. Then when it, too, had swelled, 
            he had slid down and
 between her legs to pluck it gently with his lips. She had looked 
            uncertainly towards his
 friend, who had smiled encouragingly at her as he pulled on his own 
            imposing erection.
 "Then Azazel slipped his fingers into 
            me, Mother, and pulled them out, then in again, andI got wetter and looser. Cain would have been all done by then, but 
            he just kept
 pleasuring me until I thought I could stand it no more. He put more 
            fingers into me, and
 twisted them and hooked them and kept spreading me wider. I couldn't 
            believe what he
 was doing!"
 She begged him to take her. But still he did 
            not. It shocked her, but instead he opened heranus in the same way, spreading her with her own juices. She had let 
            him do it to her.
 "Then he rolled me on top of him, Mother, 
            and told me I could have him, but that I mustlet his friend have me too. I said yes; I would have said anything 
            to have him inside me.
 When I slid myself down onto him, I thought Shemyaza would take me 
            after Azazel was
 finished. But Shemyaza didn't wait. He came over and knelt behind 
            me, and he spread my
 cheeks and pushed himself into my back passage while Azazel was in 
            me. I wanted to
 pull away, but Azazel thrust himself further up into me, and I could 
            think of nothing after
 that."
 She had held herself still for them. They 
            took her together; sometimes they thrustedtogether, both filling her at the same time. Sometimes they countered 
            each other; one
 pushed himself into her while the other drew himself out. They moved 
            slowly,
 sensuously, giving her time to feel their bulk inside her. "They 
            made me moan, Mother;
 they made me like it. Then they went faster, and harder, and I cried 
            out because I was
 shuddering and my womb was pulling on Azazel's organ."
 They slowed, but they didn't stop. Azazel 
            steadied her, stroked her hair and told her howbeautiful she was, how much she pleased them, that she was perfect 
            for them, while they
 continued to take her. Then they moved faster and faster, each thrusting 
            to his own
 rhythm, until finally one and then the other lunged, to spend his 
            seed deeply within her.
 Then they collapsed together in the pools of their shared sweat and 
            juices, and she slept
 through the heat of the afternoon. When she awoke, she found they 
            had washed and dried
 her clothes for her, and they washed and dressed her like handmaidens 
            before walking her
 companionably back to her home.
 With a shake of her head, she came back to 
            me. "Ha, ha! So, I have become a playthingfor Azazel. He says my thighs cry out to be painted, and he will make 
            them blossom like
 the desert has never seen. Isn't that funny? But Mother, I have so 
            many gifts for you. I
 have food! And this material, I have some for you, and for my sister. 
            Where is she,
 anyway? Isn't it time for her to come in from the fields? I'm going 
            to get her, she works
 too hard! You all work too hard!" I watched her run off.
 God gave Adam and me long life. We age slowly, 
            and I am still able to bear children. Idon't know if it is in compensation or retaliation, but Adam and I 
            have lived here
 hundreds of years since we were thrown out of the Garden. In all that 
            time, I have never
 once lost my temper. As soon as I ate the fruit, I knew I'd been tricked. 
            I knew there was
 evil in the world, and I knew it had used me. I gave the fruit to 
            Adam so that I would not
 live in estrangement from him, for how could I have lived without 
            him? It was selfish, I
 know, and I have born my shame, and his unspoken reproach, for all 
            these years without a
 murmur. I never sought the name of my deceiver, or blamed him a single 
            day. I chose to
 eat the fruit. I alone.
 But I would not stand by and see my daughter 
            induced to commit the sin of adultery byanother of their kind! No! Not again, no!
 The dates went flying as the dashed pot shattered, 
            before I even realized I had it in myhand.
 That evening we sat around the fire on the 
            rooftop of our house and listened to thewomen tell of Enoch's marvelous recovery, their full stores of food, 
            and their plentiful
 supplies of fresh water. They talked of the trade the visitors had 
            started with other
 communities, and they speculated on the new things the strangers would 
            teach them. I
 drew Adam aside. For once, he was willing to listen to me.
 "I must go and meet with them. I am the 
            matriarch, the daughters are my responsibility.Their influence may be all for the good and food and medicine we can 
            use, but I am
 concerned about their intentions."
 "I agree. I would come too, Eve, but 
            it is September and the early sowing must beginsoon. Not all the fields are ready. If we leave it too late, we will 
            miss the winter rains and
 the barley and wheat will fail. This is your duty, Eve; I give you 
            leave to go."
 Like it was his idea. Awan stayed with us for three days and nights. 
            Adam and I never ate better in all our dayson Earth. She and her women had brought us dried animal meat, a strange 
            thing but so
 good in the barley broth. There were roots too; onions, garlic, leeks, 
            and turnips. Adam
 slept like a baby through the night, after he had burped his satisfaction 
            through the
 evening. By the time I left, it was not the intentions of the strangers 
            he was interested in
 so much as the learning we might gain. Like father, like son.
 From the first, I declined the gift of the 
            shining thin material, keeping to my plain flaxhomespun. Awan was disappointed.
 "But you are my Mother, and I want you 
            to look your best. Wear it when you come backwith me, for my new friends! They will think I do not want to share 
            nice things with you,
 that I don't care about you."
 "What they think of either you or me 
            is not my concern. I will not dress to please them,Awan, I will dress in consideration of my status. I am the Mother, 
            as such, it pleases me
 to have modesty. Do you realize you can see the hair above your legs 
            when the sun
 catches that material? When the breezes blow, I can see the shape 
            of your nipples through
 it! Do you not care? Does Cain not care who sees your goods? You embarrass 
            your father
 and your brother, and young Enos can not take his eyes off you. His 
            sister asks every day
 when she can wear it. Do you not see the trouble it causes?"
 After that she wore flax while she was with 
            us, but refused to travel back in it. She said itwould be degrading for a woman of her status to wear flax among her 
            folk, and Cain
 would be displeased. I worried what other new customs and attitudes 
            had been wrought
 by these strangers. Perhaps I would not be able to influence my daughters 
            for much
 longer. It was with a troubled heart that I said goodbye to my husband 
            and our village.
 Cain's community was to the east, on low land 
            near the edge of the river marshes. Threedays journey later we came to the small hill that must be crossed 
            before descending to his
 valley. As we broached its crest in the late afternoon, I saw my son's 
            home for the first
 time in many years.
 "Heavens, Awan! Are there people living 
            in all those houses?" I had no idea how theircommunity had grown.
 "Well, some of those buildings house 
            the extra grain we harvested this spring and overthere is our hospital, but most of the buildings are homes for our 
            people, yes."
 We rode down towards the city, my daughter 
            and her womenfolk talking excitedly now. Ihad butterflies in my stomach; suddenly I felt unsure of my place 
            among these people.
 They didn't seem like my family any more. Somewhere along the way 
            they had grown
 apart from me. Would they know me? Would it mean anything to them 
            that I am Eve, the
 Mother of them all?
 In the distance, I saw a small group of men 
            coming out from the town. They came alongthe beaten track on foot to meet us. As they came nearer, I heard 
            a strange noise carried
 on the breeze, like birds singing in unison. They were playing flutes, 
            made from the
 marsh reeds. The men were playing, chanting, beating small drums, 
            and clapping. They
 sent a rhythm like the sound of my heartbeat on the air towards me. 
            I had never heard
 music before. It shocked like an unripe grape on the tongue, called 
            like a dreamer's cry in
 the night. It sounded like the serpent in the Garden; wild, beckoning.
 "They welcome us, Mother! Our friends 
            have all come to welcome us!" Awan leapt downfrom her mount and ran down the road to join them, the women likewise 
            dismounting,
 clapping and ululating in jubilation. Suddenly all around me there 
            was laughing and
 dancing, hands waving to the sky, singing, twirling bodies weaving 
            around me, all to a
 wild, thrilling, crashing, pulsating sound. I felt dizzy, until I 
            locked eyes on one who
 stood still before me, his head tilted slightly to one side with a 
            bright, mischievous smile
 on his face. His steady, gray blue eyes were finely lined at their 
            corners, betraying the
 weathering of many other smiles. He was tall; I had stayed mounted 
            and his eyes were
 almost level with mine, even as he bent slightly forward at the waist 
            to hold my attention.
 For his height, he was broad shouldered; his chest was bare and hairless, 
            his skin was
 deeply tanned; not olive like the color of my menfolk, but golden 
            like the color of the
 long byssus skirt he wore. It was wrapped around his lean and muscled 
            abdomen, falling
 in soft folds to his calves. He stood in a wide stance before me, 
            his fists on his hips. I
 could see the bulk of his penis and testicles. His smiled broadened 
            as I quickly looked
 back to his face. His hair was the color of the burnt wheat stalks 
            left over from the
 harvest. It fell away from his square face in short straight sheaths 
            as he shook his head
 and laughed at my frank assessment of him. He was clean shaven, his 
            mouth straight and
 firm between the hollows beneath his cheekbones. He was fine. He was 
            very fine.
 "Welcome, Eve." His voice was quiet, 
            yet I heard him clearly below the whoops, andtrilling and drumming all around me. "I am Shemyaza. You are 
            long known to me, Eve,
 and I welcome you. We are all honored by your visit; thank you for 
            deciding to come.
 Shall we see if we can move them? Otherwise I fear we shall be spending 
            the night here!"
 He spun around with a sweeping gesture of both strong arms and all 
            moved as one,
 noisily following Shemyaza along the road to my son's city. Apparently 
            it did, indeed,
 mean something that I was Eve.
 THE CITY I like to remember her arrival. It is a joyful 
            memory, one that has sustained me through allthe ages I lay buried here. The city's welcome was tumultuous and 
            we were pleased for
 her; it made her feel proud to be so exalted. Even so, Eve left the 
            airs and graces to her
 daughter. And how my Awan put it on! The bare acknowledgements, the 
            haughty regard
 as she rode through the street crowds clamoring for a glimpse of the 
            Mother; it made me
 laugh, but not Eve. Instead, Eve dismounted the patiently plodding 
            ass and went through
 the crowds on foot, taking hold of outstretched hands and greeting 
            all warmly. And when
 she came to Cain and Awan's house, she wagged her finger gently at 
            the wide-eyed awe
 of the gathered servants. She kissed their cheeks, held their babies, 
            and smiled, and
 smiled, and smiled, until her face began to ache. Then she caught 
            Awan's eye and
 scowled at her. My little minx giggled as she led her mother away 
            to her chambers.
 We had built the house large in preparation 
            for this day. It was as four houses in one, builtaround a courtyard, with another two on top. Some of the rooms were 
            not for living in.
 They were the industrial center, where women combed clean, washed 
            fleeces, and others
 drew the fluffy wool into yarn with spinning spindles. There were 
            rooms where women
 wove yarn on huge looms we had built for them. There were natural 
            yarns of creams and
 browns, but also flashing reds, warm oranges, and deep midnight blues. 
            The indigo plant
 had yielded our favorite dye. In other rooms, flax fibers were spun 
            into threads and woven
 into cloth. In the smallest rooms, women combed and twisted the hair-like 
            filaments from
 the pen shell mollusk, to make the fine golden weavings of byssus 
            silk. Awan told me
 later there had been wonder on her mother's face, but Eve had said 
            the most gratifying
 thing to her was the children's glowing skin, the women's plump arms, 
            their strong teeth,
 and the glossiness of their hair.
 And she had loved her rooms. We had made them 
            cool and airy with south facingwindows and smooth walls. We had covered the floors with rugs and 
            cushions of finely
 woven wool. The rooms were simply furnished, but the square-framed 
            tables and chairs
 were handsomely made. The bed's rushes had been cleansed with cedar 
            oil and their
 perfume filled the rooms. We had traveled far for the oil, but it 
            was worth it to hear how
 she had closed her eyes and inhaled deeply when she entered.
 We had built a spacious room off the sleeping 
            quarters and sunk a glazed tile bath into thefloor. The bath faced the west wall, where we had set wooden doors 
            so the room could be
 opened to the beauty of the setting sun. Beyond the doors was a small 
            private courtyard,
 dense with shade trees, flowering shrubs and pots of flowers. There 
            was a small fountain,
 and here and there we had set low couches and tables for her. It was 
            not quite the Garden,
 but it was beautiful nonetheless.
 Shemyaza and I had filled the biggest clay 
            samovars with water earlier in the day, and setthem over fires outside the kitchens. By the time she arrived, they 
            were ready. We filled
 big pots with the heated water and tied them to the center of long 
            poles with stout flax
 ropes. We sent them to her rooms suspended between pairs of strong 
            men, each pair
 carrying a pot between them. The bath was soon full of warm water, 
            and finally she was
 alone to soak away the journey, the dust, the worry, and the tumult 
            of her welcome. Well,
 almost alone. I sat hidden in the courtyard, across from the open 
            doors. I had not been
 able to watch her since our descent, and I had missed her.
 As I listened to her splashing, a mocking 
            bird sang to the encroaching evening. The finedrapes billowed at the courtyard doors, catching the color of the 
            flaming sunset. The soft
 air was drenched in the heady evening scents of flowers. And then 
            Gadreel appeared, his
 fire-red hair glinting in the slanting rays of the sun. I watched 
            as the drapes drifted just
 enough for her to glimpse him through the courtyard doors. My brother 
            turned and
 nodded to me; I wordlessly acknowledged him in return, and he left.
 I heard the urgent splashing almost immediately, 
            as she hurriedly left the bath. Just thenAwan's youngest maidservant came to help her dress for the welcome 
            dinner. Eve said
 nothing about her visitor. But as soon as she was dried and dressed, 
            Gadreel returned.
 This time, he ignored me.
 "The guests may as well all go home. 
            You have outshone them already," he declared fromthe entrance. "But so you can be sure, I bring you a gift, if 
            you will have it."
 His voice was deep, resonant, masculine. As 
            I watched, the maid silently left and Evecame to the courtyard doors. The red glints danced in his wildly twisting 
            hair, short
 unkempt beard and moustache. As a man, he was broad, powerfully built 
            and tall, but
 shorter than Shemyaza and me. He disdained our golden skirts and bare 
            chests. Tonight
 he was dressed in his customary long brown woolen tunic and armless 
            cloak; one heavy
 hand rested on his chest, grasping the cloak's edge, and one held 
            a green linen bag at his
 side. He looked like he'd dropped by on an evening stroll. He sounded 
            like he meant
 business.
 "I am Gadreel, and you know what I am," 
            he told her, quietly. "I know what you are." Her response 
            was cool. "And do you know that I do not trust you,Gadreel?"
 "You think I came to see you naked?" 
            he retorted. "To take advantage of you? I saw youbathing, yes; but I didn't come sneaking for a second look. I came 
            to give you this, and
 now I see I have again chosen my moment badly so I shall leave."
 "So then, you come and go as you please? 
            It seems all your kind can do that. Well I can'tstop you. But before you go, tell me why you're here. These are my 
            people; I have the
 right to know."
 He turned back to face her. For a moment, 
            I thought he would strike her. He breathedheavily, nostrils flaring as he glared at her; and then his breathing 
            slowed, his eyes
 widened, and a smile broke across his face. And then he threw back 
            his head and roared
 with laughter until the small courtyard was full of the sound of it. 
            It was too much for her.
 Now she was the angry one.
 "What is so funny?! Stop it! Stop it, 
            you... fool!" He doubled up and howled. I chuckled inwardly 
            at the sight of the tears streaming downhis face.
 "Eve! Oh, Eve! Oh please, don't do that!" 
            He gasped and hooted some more until he hadhis breath back. She approached him, until she stood directly before 
            him, her feet flat
 upon the ground on which she stood. The ground of her Earth. Not ours.
 "Gadreel. For hundreds of years I have 
            survived starvation, scorching summer droughtsand ruinous winter floods. I have struggled in this wilderness with 
            fear, shame, and my
 husband's silent reproach. I have born children in blood and ripping 
            pain; my offspring
 now populate the Earth. What is so funny about my asking you a straight 
            question?"
 Neither Eve nor I expected the tenderness 
            that came over him. His face softened in thefading light as his eyes wandered over her with open admiration.
 "I am sorry, Eve," he said, finally. 
            "I had no right. It's just that I think of you as a childstill, because you were just that to me, when you were in the Garden. 
            I was there with you
 then, you know."
 "No you weren't. On one day, you weren't." She hurt him, then. His eyes snapped closed, 
            and his face contorted in a grimace as awretched groan rose from his chest. He hissed through clenched teeth.
 "I have sworn, Eve, I have sworn if I 
            ever see him, I will tear him apart with my barehands. I will eat his gore. I would even kill myself, if it would 
            put you back." He opened
 his eyes, blinked rapidly at the sky then looked to the ground. He 
            could not look at her. "I,
 too, have struggled with shame. For all this time it has scourged 
            me, and it will never end.
 I am even too ashamed to ask you to forgive me."
 In the deepening shadows I heard his pain, 
            the pain that had driven him to argue for ourpresence here as men. The pain I had used to persuade him.
 Eve was dumbfounded, but he still would not 
            meet her eyes. At last it dawned on her thatthis stranger she had never seen before had suffered every living 
            moment with her since
 the Fall. And then I heard her gasp. Of course; she had just told 
            him she did not trust him.
 I saw her compassion, then. Her heart told her the words to say.
 "I don't know how to soothe you, Gadreel, 
            but you should not suffer on my account. Imade the choice; it was of my own free will. Perhaps I was a child 
            then but as a woman,
 now, I forgive you. Will you accept that from me?" He considered 
            and then, quietly, he
 spoke.
 "Know this, Eve. When you look upon my 
            gift, you will look upon the most beautifulthing ever created. If you will accept that from me, then we are atoned."
 Quickly, he grasped both her wrists and pressed 
            the bag he held into her hands. Then hedarted away and strode purposefully about the courtyard, lighting 
            the wicks of the nearest
 oil-filled lamps. He stayed away from me. I watched her open the drawstring 
            bag and
 draw out something flat, oval, and hard. I smiled in recognition; 
            I had watched him make
 it, a magical thing. It was the width of a small melon and the color 
            of moonlight. Its stem
 was set into a long, gleaming, dark wooden handle. It was tapered 
            and balanced and lay
 easily in her hands. In his workshop, he had shown me the smooth rings 
            of gold
 encircling the wood, and the tiny figures of golden animals and dancing 
            people, the silver
 tendrils of plants and branching trees, all in relief and chasing 
            around the silver oval in a
 wide band. She didn't understand it, but she saw it was finely crafted 
            and a beautiful thing
 and she told him so.
 Slowly, deliberately, he stepped close behind 
            her. She froze. I could see his body pressingagainst hers. From her breathing, I could tell her heart was pounding. 
            Gently, he brought
 his arms around her. He took the thing and turned it over in her hands.
 "No, Eve," I heard him murmur, "I 
            poured all my skill into the making of it, used thepurest gold and silver I could find, but what you have seen so far 
            is not the most beautiful
 thing ever created. This is."
 He raised her hands up to her face while she 
            held the thing, and I heard her gasp again.She had seen her wavering reflection before in deep pools of water, 
            but in Gadreel's
 polished, silver mirror I knew her face was as clear as if she were 
            looking at another
 living being. Her trembling hand moved over her face; she felt it, 
            and saw it at the same
 time. Her eyes were bright, dark and alive.
 I watched Gadreel's arms slowly drop away 
            from hers and fold around her waist. I heardhis entreaty. "Permit me, Eve, please. I have dreamed of this. 
            Tell me what you see in the
 mirror. Spend this moment with me; let me hear your sweet, low voice. 
            Let us be atoned."
 She could not speak. This passionate creature, 
            this gifted artisan who spurned finery forhimself, had created for her a gift the world had never imagined. 
            I heard her sigh a single
 word; "Cherished".
 I watched her lean back, stretch her chin 
            and neck, and tilt her head back into his chest.She held the mirror high above them. Beneath the emerging stars, in 
            the flickering lights
 of the lamps, I watched and listened as she healed them both.
 "I see that my mouth is soft, Gadreel, 
            with a fullness that I like." He pulled one arm tighter around her waist 
            while he raised the other across her breasts, toslowly caress her shoulder. In the mirror, she must have seen that 
            his eyes were closed.
 "More," he said. "My skin is like the senna plant. It 
            is the color of the pods before they are fully ripe; it isbrown, but it has the gold of the senna flower and the green of the 
            leaf in its color."
 "Yes." "My cheeks are high in my face, and wide 
            beneath my eyes. My face is smooth, like apebble from the river bed."
 He bent his head to her hair and sighed. "My chin is shaped like a bird's egg 
            and my jaw is firm, but not heavy." "No, not heavy at all." He pulled 
            her tighter against him and began to sway her gently,slowly.
 "My nose is straight and high; my nostrils 
            are fine, they curve like bird wings rising intothe air."
 "They are beautiful." "My eyes are shaped like almonds. They 
            are dark as night. They are shining." He lifted his head. In the mirror, their eyes 
            met and held for one moment; then he pulledher around to face his hunger, to see the slackness in his mouth just 
            before he plunged it
 down upon hers. He pressed her to him with one hand on her back, the 
            other against her
 buttocks. I watched him adjust his stance and press himself against 
            her, against her body
 and against her mouth. She melted into him, weak beneath his crushing 
            strength and his
 need for her. In that moment, for them, there was nothing else.
 He folded her to his chest in silence when 
            he had stopped kissing her. She clung to him,holding the mirror limply at her side. I knew she was evading the 
            awful guilt that would
 come, holding instead to the scent and solid feel of his body. They 
            had achieved their
 atonement; she was blissful again, at long, long last.
 "Eve, you must go to the dinner," 
            he told her, eventually. "You will be missed." Reluctantly, she came back to the world. "You 
            won't come?" "No. I will be alone, thinking of you." 
            He lifted her chin and smiled down into her face. "Iwill see you again." And then he left, the way he had come; still 
            sounding like he meant
 business. He threw me one meaningful look as he strode past me. He 
            was hers; I
 understood. It was the bargain we had struck when I persuaded him 
            to argue for coming
 here, when all the Watchers had met to decide. I would not break our 
            agreement. I only
 wanted to watch.
 And I did watch her for a while, as she sat 
            inside with Gadreel's gift in her lap, vacantlystaring at her lost-looking face. Then I left her, to await her presence 
            at the dinner party
 on the nearby roof.
 The musicians were there, including a harpist 
            who was playing a light and bouncy soundthat buoyed up the laughter and chatter of the guests. The servants 
            had almost finished
 bringing up the platters of food. The low tables were full of meats, 
            breads, and fruits.
 There were pots of cooked leeks, lentils, and mashed turnip, and plates 
            of cool
 watercress, lettuce, and beets. She came quietly among us, and Shemyaza, 
            sensing her
 mood, solicitously selected a small amount of each meat and handed 
            her the plate of
 samples, explaining what they were. There was cooked pigeon, goose, 
            goat, mutton, beef
 and gazelle. Another Bene Elohim joined them both, lowering himself 
            easily onto a
 cushion beside her, effortlessly balancing his wine cup. I sat nearby, 
            where I could hear
 them and watch Awan at the same time. Shemyaza introduced our brother.
 "This is Penemue, Eve. He is busy in 
            the kitchen most days, or gathering herbs from thefields. He knows them all, the bitter and the sweet." He was 
            a gentle creature, slim and
 lightly built with graceful hands and long limbs. His fine, golden 
            hair fell to his
 shoulders, reflecting the light of the lamps around him. His eyes 
            were blue, but not the
 gray-blue of Shemyaza's; his were the blue of a cloudless summer sky, 
            the flower of the
 flax grass. He was fascinating and strange to her, and she found it 
            hard not to stare.
 Penemue was sensitive, and knew how to draw 
            her out. "What do you think of the lamb?I cooked it in a pot with salt, water, beer and onions and with coriander, 
            cumin, and
 garlic. I hope you like it," he added, shyly.
 "It is wonderful. In my village, it is 
            the women who work in the kitchens. Would youteach me the recipe to take back to them? The whole village would 
            enjoy this. But of
 course, we have no sheep. Abel was our shepherd, but when... We don't 
            know how to care
 for them."
 "Sheep and goats are easy to raise, they 
            will find the forage they need and they do notrequire as much water as cattle. You have some oxen for plowing, do 
            you not? But you
 do not raise cattle for milk or meat? Is water a problem?" He 
            listened intently, nodding
 quickly as she described the trials of her village and the limitations 
            of their lands. He
 beckoned to Araziel.
 As they talked, she began to see how it was 
            that Cain's people were so well cared for.Araziel explained the local geography, and how the land was used. 
            As they talked,
 another joined them and then another, and soon her head was swimming 
            with the use of
 plants for medicines, the seasons for the birthing of the herds, how 
            to know the best time
 to spread their dung on the grain fields, why it was best to plant 
            lentils in a field the year
 after harvesting grain from it, the signs to look for when deciding 
            where to dig a well, the
 ways to forecast the coming of the rains, what stars will be where 
            to tell you, and the
 shape of the moon when the greatest harvests can be gathered. Bar?q?j?l 
            knew the stars,
 Araziel knew the ways of the Earth, Penemue knew the nutritious properties 
            of plants,
 ?z?q??l could read the weather. Each of them offered their knowledge 
            freely.
 Shemyaza said very little, and I said nothing 
            at all, but we both watched as herappreciation of our brethren grew. The music grew louder as more beer 
            and wine was
 consumed, and soon Eve's womenfolk drew her teachers away to dance. 
            Awan had
 unbraided her flowing red hair because I loved it so; flashing her 
            dark eyes at me, she
 leapt up to shake her hips before my face. Oh, the joy of her! Cain 
            leapt up to dance with
 her, to spin her around and drive her. Awan clapped in time to the 
            band's rousing beat,
 laughing and sinuously weaving through the jubilant throng as he pursued 
            her. I watched,
 smiling. She did it for me.
 Close by, Eve and Shemyaza were talking below 
            the din. "There are two hundred of us,Eve, but none so honored as us few here tonight. What do you think 
            of our efforts, so
 far?" he asked her.
 "You have given much. I see the children 
            are happy, and the land produces more than Icould have thought possible. What is it you ask in return, Shemyaza?"
 "The love of the women." He answered 
            her directly. Given her earlier state, I wasn't sureit was the right moment but he had set the course. I said nothing.
 "You have no right to that." "Not unless it is freely given, no. But 
            if we ask, and it is given without fear, if we acceptrefusal and do not threaten reprisal, then where is the harm?"
 "You lure them from their menfolk." 
            Ah, she seeks to be persuaded, perhaps. But to do sowould bring recriminations later. He saw it, and stayed his course.
 "And I say again, we have no right where 
            it is not freely given. But if we love a man'swife and he does not object, and his wife is content, then who is 
            harmed? Our love
 making is not as men do it. We honor women's bodies, Eve. Their pleasure 
            is the highest
 joy to us. Just the scent of a woman arouses us."
 It was the truth, and she knew it. For a moment 
            her eyes were far away. I knew she wasremembering Gadreel's closed eyes as he held her, the serene pleasure 
            on his face. I knew
 she understood; once again, I heard her utter the whispered word, 
            "Cherished".
 "But surely not all the men permit it? 
            Are there no husbands who refuse?" So close,Shemyaza, so close.
 Shemyaza shrugged. "Yes, but do they 
            love their wives? I mean, truly love them? Are youin favor of a man possessing his woman, Eve? In the way he owns his 
            cattle? Does your
 heart not demand love?"
 "When He expelled us from the Garden, 
            God said that men were masters over theirwomen. It is not for a woman to say what is right or wrong, or to 
            demand love."
 "So you would refuse the caress of one 
            who loves you, if one who does not love you willnot permit it? You would actually give up the love for which you were 
            created? Unless I
 mistook your scent when you first arrived, I think you would accept." 
            Oh no, too hard,
 Shemyaza.
 "You speak like the serpent, and you 
            don't know what I accepted tonight, or for whatreason!"
 "It is true, I do not know what reason 
            you had for responding to him, but I know there isno deceit in what I say. If he is who I think he is, and he is conspicuous 
            by his absence
 tonight, then I am glad for you both because you have both suffered 
            greatly. I can tell you
 there was no deceit in his feelings for you, either. Forgive me if 
            I challenge you so hard,
 but we have considered this well and we can find nothing right in 
            refusing love. We have
 given up much for our belief."
 I would not have put it to her so, would not 
            have challenged her so directly. She had notasked for us to leave the heavens for the love of her daughters. Or 
            the love of her.
 Regretfully I watched her wander away alone to consider the right 
            and wrong of the bliss
 she had taken in Gadreel's arms, while Shemyaza got up to dance with 
            the delicious,
 writhing mass of female flesh.
 HIGH SOCIETY: EVE DECIDES I'm not sure when Mother left the dinner party. 
            I think perhaps she was tired after thejourney or maybe the party was too much for her. After all, as the 
            first lady of the city I
 threw a party most nights, but she had never been in society before. 
            And she had been
 talking business with the Bene Elohim all night. So I sent a maidservant 
            to check on her
 when I realized she had gone, and ordered more beer and wine to be 
            brought to the
 rooftop. As far as I was concerned, the night was still young!
 Shemyaza and Cain danced with me, Cain in 
            front and Shemyaza behind. Oh and I knew,didn't I, that was his favorite position! Ha! Cain laughed as he watched 
            Shemyaza's hands
 come around and cup my jiggling breasts and bounce them higher in 
            front of his eyes. I
 slithered up and down between them, rubbing their penises with my 
            body. I loved the lust
 in my husband's eyes when I teased him! And I know Azazel noticed. 
            That pleased me
 even more.
 In a corner, Azazel was doing what he loved 
            best, seducing the women. He had broughtcosmetics and bags of trinkets for them and was gathering the women 
            around him on the
 piles of cushions. When we got tired, we joined them. The band took 
            a break as the rest
 of the dancers flopped down on the cushions. A harpist took over, 
            and we settled down
 for some fun.
 "No, no! You should let me do this, now 
            hold still!" Baraka was giggling as Azazelleaned over her, cradling her head in his lap. He had a tiny curved 
            wooden stick in his
 hand. "This is kohl. Hold still and I will make your eyes beautiful. 
            Not only that, but
 when you wear this you will be protected from flies and the diseases 
            they can bring to
 your eyes. Yes! It's true! Flies hate kohl. And the sun will bother 
            you less because kohl is
 dark, you see. There now. How does she look?"
 "Ooh, Baraka that is beautiful! Your 
            eyes are enchanting! You should kiss Azazel, justturn your head a little and give him an enchanted kiss!"
 The women leaned over them both, laughing 
            and cat calling as she turned her head in hislap and quickly kissed the bulge under his skirt.
 "Bring it out, Azazel, make her pay full 
            price!" "I'll pay you in full, Azazel, if you paintme next!"
 Baraka licked her lips salaciously as Azazel 
            gave her a slow, deliberate smile, teasinglydrawing his skirt aside to show her his penis and testicles.
 "You kiss the python head now, Baraka! 
            Show him your gratitude!" "Pay him in full,Baraka, go on!"
 There were more shouts and laughter as Baraka 
            reached up to take his semi-flaccid penisin her hand and planted her soft lips on the skin enfolded tip.
 "Thank you Baraka, now she gets a necklace. 
            Here, gold and cornelian beads for mybeautiful Baraka. Now the next one will have a little more to kiss. 
            Who will put her head
 on my thigh for painting next?" Azazel nonchalantly wiped his 
            little kohl applicator on a
 cloth and dipped it into his leather kohl bottle. He sat exposed, 
            ready, and more than
 willing for the next customer.
 They lined up; each woman kissed his penis 
            and receiving a trinket after Azazel hadoutlined her eyes. Shemyaza came and sat beside him, and took up the 
            plate on which
 Azazel had combined goose fat and red ochre.
 "Line up here for lip paint! If you want 
            to kiss my python you have to do it with red lips, Ionly want painted lips on my snake!"
 Immediately there were two lines, but they 
            weren't very well organized. Both Azazel andShemyaza were quickly brought to full erections and the kissing turned 
            to prolonged
 sucking and moaning as my womenfolk took their turn at bobbing their 
            heads up and
 down on their shafts. Soon the cosmetics were forgotten and some of 
            the other Bene
 Elohim were getting sucked for free.
 Then one of the women was lifted to her hands 
            and knees, eyes and legs wide whileAraziel mounted her and began to fuck her the way the dogs do it in 
            the streets. I watched
 her mouth open in a big, red lipped, silent 'Oh!' as he enjoyed her. 
            Another had beaded
 trinkets pushed into her anus while Bar?q?j?l and ?z?q??l suspended 
            her over Penemue's
 thrusting cock, all the while sucking and pulling on her bouncing 
            nipples. Her legs were
 outstretched stiffly in their tight grip, her face a grimace somewhere 
            between pain and
 pleasure as she was vigorously impaled.
 Some women had their vaginas licked by a Bene 
            Elohim while they sucked on another'spenis, he in turn with his face buried in the spreading wet lips of 
            another woman. One
 woman lay on her back on a low table, her ankles held high and apart 
            by a Bene Elohim
 while he knelt at her opening and took her deeply. Another of the 
            women swept away
 what was left of the plates and cups, climbed up, and lowered herself 
            onto the moaning
 woman's face. She rubbed her slit on her face, while she held her 
            full breasts up to the
 delighted, pumping Bene Elohim before her. While I lay on my side 
            and watched the fun,
 Cain curved around my back and lazily fingered my vagina with one 
            hand while he
 squeezed my breasts with the other. I hiked my dress, lifted my leg 
            and exposed myself
 for him and anyone else who wanted to see.
 Edna, who had always liked to have me rub 
            oil into her skin after we bathed, crawledacross the cushions to me and Cain. She was naked, and her full breasts 
            swung freely.
 "Their cocks are too big for me to suck, Awan," she pouted. 
            "I like a little one, like the
 one between your lips. Cain, would you like to see how nicely I can 
            suck it?"
 In reply, Cain pushed me onto my back, "Open 
            your legs, Lady Awan, let her have herway with you," he ordered. Edna pushed my knees apart, opening 
            me wider, feasting her
 eyes on my moist, glistening slit.
 "Wait," said my husband, "I 
            need to get something." While she waited, Edna leaned overme, dangling her pert black nipples over my lips. When she pressed 
            first one and then the
 other to my mouth, I took them in and nibbled them, sucked them hard 
            and held them
 between my teeth as she pulled them out. She hissed at the sharp pleasure, 
            and her eyes
 glinted.
 Cain came back a moment later with a long, 
            stout leather penis in his hand. It was as longas his forearm, straight and stiff. "Ok go to it, but keep your 
            ass up. You're going to
 prepare this for your lady."
 Edna was soon probing me with her all her 
            fingers as she sucked on my little globe. Cainsat behind her and set about fucking her with the dildo. She moaned 
            as he worked the
 massive tool into her sex. Then Azazel came over, and knelt beside 
            me. His penis hung
 stiffly over my face. I could smell the juice of a woman on it. Without 
            a word, he lifted
 my head to it and bent it to my mouth, then stuffed it in. I held 
            him at the root while he
 unceremoniously shafted my face. Cain must have passed the dildo to 
            Edna because now
 I could feel her push something big and slippery into me. Out of the 
            corner of my eye I
 could see Cain was upright now, watching me sucking Azazel. He was 
            fucking Edna. She
 was shouting rhythmically with his lunging and pushing the big, heavy 
            dildo harder into
 me in time to his driving force. "Oo, oo, uh, huh, fuck, my, 
            hole, yes, oo, yes!"
 Soon Shemyaza appeared on the other side of 
            my face and Azazel pulled out of mymouth, still holding my head. I grunted as I grasped Shemyaza's huge 
            phallus and
 swallowed as much of him as I could. I held one in each hand, and 
            alternately sucked and
 pulled on each hot purple head and glaring red shaft. All around me 
            I could hear the
 women squealing and moaning, and the Bene Elohim roaring as they ejaculated 
            over the
 women's faces, into their wombs, into their back passages and over 
            their bodies. The
 smell of their seed and the women's juices was everywhere. The rooftop 
            was full of the
 sounds of fucking.
 Azazel was the first to come in my mouth, 
            shooting his hot, salty mess down my throat. Iswallowed and quickly turned to Shemyaza and drank a second load. 
            Cain cried out in
 ecstasy and buried himself deeply into the screaming Edna as he spent 
            inside her.
 The big leather dong was still buried in me. 
            While the men dropped back onto thecushions, Edna quickly turned around and slid one leg under me, one 
            over my waist, and
 took the protruding half of the dildo into her hole. I felt it push 
            deeper into mine as she
 slid down onto it, heard the squelching sound of my husband's semen 
            being forced from
 her and felt its stickiness as it ran down from her lips to mine. 
            She grasped my wrists, I
 grasped hers, and we sought to grind our slits against each other, 
            writhing on the hard
 leather buried in us both. It was too long for our lips to meet, and 
            I cried out in
 frustration. Then Azazel reached over and broke our grip, guiding 
            our hands to our little
 nubs. "Show us how you pleasure yourselves, girls. We want to 
            watch you. Do it."
 We pivoted on the leather tool and lay on 
            our backs, our knees flat and wide open, feetdrawn up. I held my lips open and my audience watched as I rubbed 
            my jewel. I crunched
 up to see Edna rubbing herself too, and saw the big leather cylinder 
            that was sticking out
 of her and into me.
 Azazel grasped the center of the dildo and 
            started to slide it backwards and forwards. Hetwisted it as he fucked us both with it, slowly at first. As Edna 
            and I grew used to it, he
 started to put more distance into the motion. It reached so far inside 
            me I tried to move off
 it, but Cain knelt at my head and held my shoulders in place. Shemyaza 
            held Edna.
 Azazel worked faster and faster. My back tightened, 
            and I arched my breasts up to mygrinning, staring husband. I wanted him to see how hard my straining 
            nipples had
 become. I could feel myself spreading to accommodate the leather tool. 
            My swollen
 clitoris throbbed to my agitating finger as I jiggled it faster and 
            faster. The leather rod was
 ramming me now, and I could hear Edna crying out. Bracing me with 
            his knees, Cain
 reached over to take each plump nipple, pinching them until I felt 
            myself clamping on the
 monstrous leather penis, convulsing as the spasms of pleasure jolted 
            through my body.
 When I was spent, they let me drag myself 
            off the dildo, but Edna had not yet come. Cainpushed me over to her, made me lay at her side, and then pulled me 
            up to one of her
 breasts. "Suck her, Lady Awan!" he ordered. Azazel put my 
            hand to the dildo as I took
 her nipple in my mouth, and I grasped it and pumped her with it in 
            fast, short strokes. I
 sucked hard on her nipple, and did not release the pressure as it 
            grew but rubbed it with
 my tongue as I held it with my teeth. I pulled it up as I drew back 
            from it, and I knew it
 was hurting her. I rammed her harder with the dildo, making her sob. 
            Finally I let the
 swollen nipple go and propped myself up to reach the other one. She 
            twisted to bring it to
 my mouth, one hand proffering it to me. I could feel her other arm 
            shaking as she rubbed
 her jewel faster and faster. I worked her harder with the dildo. As 
            I suckled her and
 pummeled her womb, she arched until she bent like a bow under the 
            force of her
 mounting pleasure. Then, when she began to scream at the hard pull 
            of her contractions, I
 finished her with the dildo deep inside her. When she was still and 
            finally quiet, I fell
 back to join her in her floating stupor, leaving the leather tool 
            protruding from her hole...
 ...My daughter didn't see me leave. I wanted 
            to be alone to ponder Shemyaza's words. TheBene Elohim knew so much, and my people were healthy and prosperous 
            because of
 them. If they came to my husband's village, if Adam invited them, 
            we too would live
 well. They would teach us everything we needed to make metal tools, 
            to farm and to
 trade. Perhaps in time we could adapt their knowledge to make inventions 
            of our own.
 Only to freely offer the women in return; was that a sin? I had thought 
            so, when I left my
 village with pictures in my mind of how they had taken Awan and the 
            licentious behavior
 they had taught her. But Cain and Awan, and everyone here, were happy. 
            Shemyaza had
 said they did not take what was denied them. The women gave of their 
            own free will. I
 had paid dearly for exercising mine. I feared I had cursed all my 
            descendents forever;
 here, it seemed that to exercise free will was to be repaid a thousand-fold. 
            I did not know
 what to think.
 The lamps were glowing in the courtyard, and 
            someone had left fresh fruit on a tablethere for me with a jug of wine and two cups. The splashing fountain 
            sparkled beneath the
 stars, and the cool night air still carried the scent of the moonlit 
            flowers. I sat on a couch
 and poured myself a cup of the fruity wine. I shivered as a breeze 
            played across my bare
 arms.
 "Eve." My heart leapt. Gadreel was 
            here. He stepped from a deep shadow and stoodbefore me.
 "You look troubled. And cold. Here, take 
            my cloak." He sat beside me as he wrapped itaround me like a shawl, tenderly. I smiled at the concern on his strong, 
            rugged face.
 "Why didn't you come to the dinner?" 
            I asked, as he sat beside me. "I knew how it would go. I had no interest. 
            Did you enjoy it? You came away early." "I talked with your brothers. They gave 
            me much to think about and I couldn't think withthe music playing and all the chatter."
 "What did they talk about?" "Oh, everything. All that you know, and 
            that this city is built on." He raised an eyebrow. "All?" "Yes, I see how it is. And I don't know 
            what to think of it." He poured himself some wineand said nothing.
 "Why did you come down from your heaven, 
            Gadreel? You keep apart from the rest ofthe Bene Elohim. You said you needed my forgiveness earlier tonight. 
            Was it only that?"
 "No." "You came for the women? To use them?" "I came with the rest of the Watchers 
            to help your people, to care for them and to teachthem. I wanted to do it. I wanted to put right the wrong I felt, I 
            still feel, was our blame.
 And yes, I took women at first. I won't lie to you, Eve. I wanted 
            to know how it felt and
 how to love. They wanted me. If I used them, they used me too. Was 
            it wrong?"
 "I don't know." He took my hand, and looked at it for a long 
            while. Then he looked into my eyes. I feltthe heat pouring out of him.
 "There was not one who did not feel joy. 
            There was lust, yes, and tenderness too. I heldeach one in my arms and I celebrated our love making. It was wonderful. 
            I can't believe it
 was wrong."
 I felt a hot flash of anger. But it wasn't 
            for my daughters. It was for me. I didn't think, Ijust blurted out the words.
 "Did you hold them like you held me? 
            Did you kiss them the way you kissed me? Didthey look in your mirror too?"
 I felt mean as soon as I had said it. He slipped 
            an arm around my shoulders, turned myface to his. "I never made a mirror for anyone but you, because 
            I never felt for anyone
 what I feel for you. I took them and I enjoyed them, so ask me why 
            I stopped."
 "Why did you?" "Because they were not you." I turned my head away and closed my eyes, 
            fighting to make sense of it. "Adam would not allow it. I couldn't." "Then we won't." A chill came over me, a despair of the heart. 
            Then I knew. I wanted him. I dropped myhead into my hands. A low, growling, anguished moan escaped me.
 "Eve, Eve. Gently." He pulled me 
            to him and held me. "I want you with all my heart but ifyou don't want me with all yours then there is no question of it. 
            We will care for one
 another still. There will be no blame between us, ever. No more guilt, 
            Eve, no more."
 As I rested against him, he pulled me down 
            until we lay in each others arms on the couch.I closed my eyes, and breathed in the scent of him. Slowly, I relaxed 
            as he stroked my
 hair.
 "Eve, what made you take the fruit from 
            the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Whatdid he say to you that made you do it? May I know? Is it too painful 
            to talk of it?"
 I had never spoken of it. Adam and I had never 
            talked with any of our children about theGarden. What good would it have done to tell them of a paradise they 
            could never know?
 And how could we have described our innocence? The only way would 
            be to show them
 an infant's open gaze. In that I see us as we once were. But it would 
            be nonsense in the
 face of our toil and the death we faced every day.
 "It's not too painful for me now. I think 
            I need to talk about it. I never could before." Isighed, and lay on my back to see the dense spread of stars across 
            the night sky. I allowed
 myself to remember that distant day. Gadreel propped on his side and 
            watched me as I
 talked.
 "I was near the Tree. I don't know why 
            I was there. Adam was not far, but I was alone.You remember how every animal had a voice? It was not the first time 
            I had talked with a
 serpent. There was nothing unusual in our conversation at the start. 
            Then it asked me if
 He had really told us we couldn't eat from the trees and I said, 'No, 
            He said we can, but
 not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil because then 
            we would die'. The
 serpent asked me if I knew what to 'die' meant, and said I didn't. 
            There was no death in
 the Garden, remember? Then it said surely Our Lord wouldn't let us 
            die, because that was
 a bad thing. I didn't know what 'bad' was, either, and I told him. 
            Then it said if I ate the
 fruit, then I would understand, that my eyes would be opened and I 
            would be able to
 understand what Our Lord intended because I would know things that 
            He knew. The
 serpent said I would be like him. I thought how wonderful it would 
            be to be able to talk
 with Him, to really know Him. And that's why I ate the fruit, Gadreel. 
            I took it, and I ate
 it."
 "And your eyes were opened." "Yes. Oh, it was an awful moment. I was 
            terrified, Gadreel." He leant down and kissedmy forehead, waited for me to continue.
 "Suddenly there was a Bene Elohim before 
            me. He was bright, shining, but he wasterrible to see. There was triumph on his face, malice, oh, so much 
            hate in his eyes! I
 knew then I'd been listening to his voice. The serpent had vanished. 
            I knew he was evil,
 because now I knew what evil was, and I knew he had tricked me. In 
            that instant I knew
 what death was, and I was afraid of it. He screamed and laughed at 
            the same time, a
 twisted, screeching sound. My blood ran cold, and then he vanished 
            too. When Adam
 found me, I hid my terror from him and told him how we could talk 
            with Our Lord now.
 Adam listened to me in wonder, barely understanding the things I told 
            him. He was so
 astonished he took the fruit from me and ate it without question. 
            I should not have given
 it to him. It was wrong. But I hoped that with our new knowledge, 
            we might know Him.
 And, if I'm honest, whatever Our Lord did to me, I wanted Adam and 
            me to be together.
 So here we are. Adam tries, but he has not forgiven me. Who was he, 
            Gadreel? Why did
 he do it?"
 "Satanel. He was our prince, the closest 
            to Our Lord. He was thrown from the heavensbecause he could not accept you. He said you were a lesser creation 
            to us. He lost Our
 Lord's love, and blamed you. He thought Our Lord would love him again 
            if you failed
 Him. He hated you from the start."
 "So now both of us are far from Him." "And the Watchers, too, now. We can't 
            go back to our heavens again. Do you still want tobe close to Him, Eve?"
 "Yes, but there's no way back. I wanted 
            it too much." We lay quietly for a while, Gadreel playing 
            with my hair while I watched the shootingstars.
 "Gadreel?" "Hmm?" "What did you mean, when you said you 
            celebrated your love making with the women?" "I gave myself to them. I gave myself 
            to their elation, shared it, exalted it. My blood wasglorious, vibrant. It surged in me. I rose on their ecstasy like I 
            was flying again. It was
 rapture. It was like being in heaven."
 With Adam, the only man I had ever had inside 
            me, I had been dutiful, appeasing. I hadlet him do as he needed. This was different.
 "When you flew in heaven, were you close 
            to Him?" "It was more than close. I felt in complete 
            accord with Him. There was nothing to behidden, nothing to be resolved, nothing more to know. His love and 
            our love were one
 and the same."
 "I felt that in the Garden, too. I thought 
            there was more to know. There was, but nothingworth knowing. Nothing worth the price."
 "Gadreel, take me back." He froze. "What?" "Take me back. Take me back to the Garden. 
            Love me. I want you; my heart wants youand my body wants you. When I die, I want to know I spoke to Him of 
            Good and Evil. I
 want Satanel to know he could not keep me from Him. Let me glory in 
            the love, Gadreel.
 I am yours."
 NO RETURN There were no more words between us. He carried 
            me across the courtyard and to my bed.My heart was pounding as he lay me down. I watched in the lamps' soft 
            light as he
 removed his tunic. His gray-green eyes were fixed on my face. He was 
            unsmiling, intent
 on what he was about to do. His broad chest was hairless, the muscles 
            clearly defined
 beneath his bronze skin. The years he had been hammering metal into 
            tools had built him
 up. The muscle between his neck and shoulders was high. His arms bulged, 
            his stomach
 was ridged, his legs firm and large. His penis hung long and massive 
            over his heavy sac.
 He moved deliberately, slowly over to the bed and sat beside me. I 
            moved to sit up so I
 could take off my dress, but he stayed me with one hand at my shoulder. 
            I lay still as he
 began to feel the contours of my body, still staring intently into 
            my eyes. He looked wild.
 His hands began at my shoulders, fingers spread 
            as he moved in light circles over them.He slid his hands down the inside of my upper arms. He grasped my 
            arms and lifted them
 so they lay outstretched across the bed. He ran his hands along them, 
            back up to my
 shoulders and let them drift slowly down over my ribcage. At my waist 
            he brought them
 together across my belly and then smoothed them up to the space between 
            my breasts. My
 mouth felt dry. I swallowed and licked my lips.
 He moved his hands together back down to my 
            belly and apart again over my hips. Henever took his eyes from my face. His expression became a question 
            as his hands slid
 around my thighs and firmly pulled them apart. My breathing had become 
            a heavy pant
 through my open mouth.
 He rose and walked deliberately to the end 
            of the bed, standing there a moment to take inthe sight of me spread open before him. He stepped onto the bed, feet 
            astride my pelvis.
 With knees bent, scrotum low, he reached down to the neckline of my 
            dress and with two
 hands he tore it open. Stepping down my body he ripped until it fell 
            away, leaving me
 exposed to him as he towered above me. He watched my breasts rising 
            and falling before
 taking a long look down along the length of my body. I saw the emerging 
            head of his
 growing penis. It was glistening in anticipation.
 He knelt between my legs, his knees wide. 
            He watched my face as he placed his handseither side of my pelvis, then slowly drew me down towards him. He 
            raised my buttocks
 up onto his thighs. I braced myself in position, knees bent and my 
            feet flat upon the bed.
 With one hand he held my outer lips open. 
            The other moved to his penis. He guided itshead to my open slit, rubbed it slowly up and down along the full 
            length. I closed my eyes
 as I felt myself opening to him, the wetness beginning to flow. He 
            rubbed himself on my
 clitoris and then raised me further up his thighs as his penis hardened. 
            He rubbed the full
 length of his shaft slowly, rhythmically, against me, pressed hard 
            against me. When his
 penis was wet with my juices, he suddenly raised me higher, both hands 
            under my
 buttocks, until my breasts swung up towards my head. I hooked my legs 
            over his
 shoulders. Holding me open he bent his head between my legs and lapped 
            the juices from
 me. He tongued my inner lips, my clitoris, and my vagina. I ached 
            to feel him inside me.
 My belly thrilled in anticipation of him. My clitoris sent sharp shocks 
            through me and I
 shuddered as he sucked it.
 He circled my vagina with one finger. I cried 
            out, tried to push myself higher for him."Please, Gadreel. Please, I want you."
 "Not yet." His finger pressed at my opening. I beat the 
            bed in frustration then gripped the sheets ashe slid it into me. He pulled it out, slid it up to my clitoris, rubbed 
            it up and down with his
 fingertip, then slid it back down my lips and plunged into me again. 
            He did it again and
 again until I grasped a cushion at my outstretched clawing hand, brought 
            it to my head
 and used it to stifle my ecstatic screams.
 He let me go, pushed me down, pulled the cushion 
            away and turned himself around sothat he lay propped at my side, his penis level with my head and upper 
            body at my
 throbbing sex. His penis was wet with the juices he had collected, 
            and the smell was
 pungent in my nostrils as I bent to service it. I held the hot shaft 
            near the root, and swung
 the head to my open mouth. Before I took him in, I licked him along 
            his length, along the
 underside down to where my hand encircled his girth. I pressed and 
            sucked and tongued
 the shaft back up to the head, then flicked the tip of my tongue into 
            its opening before
 plunging down along the shaft again. I teased him as he had teased 
            me, holding him
 tightly until the head deepened in color and gave up more of his salty 
            fluid. The veins
 stood out along his widening shaft. I stretched my mouth over the 
            head, and then slid
 down onto his towering length, working it slowly to my throat. I breathed 
            deeply to keep
 from gagging on him, working up the suction, sucking him and engorging 
            him more. I felt
 his fingers probing me, and then he slid several fingers into me, 
            pushing into me deeper
 and deeper. I sobbed on his shaft as he began to drive his hand into 
            me, insistent,
 unrelenting. My head worked faster over his massive tool.
 He drew himself out of my mouth, grasped my 
            body and turned me around and underhim. His feet hooked the insides of my legs and spread them as he 
            grasped my wrists and
 held them down high above my head. He paused a moment, his eyes boring 
            into mine. I
 looked down to see his massive tool standing proud along his abdomen, 
            then looked back
 into his face. He stared into my eyes as he lowered himself to me. 
            I felt his head pressing
 at my vagina. I sobbed as he pushed the head into me. He withdrew, 
            held himself at my
 opening and then pushed inside me again, this time a little more. 
            "Yes. Take me, please
 take me," I begged him.
 "Tell me what you want." "I want you inside me." "Where?" His head pressed at my 
            vagina. "I want it in my sex." He slid it 
            in a little. "More. I want it deeper." He slid 
            in a little further, then held himself still. "Enough?" he asked. "No! Oh, please Gadreel I want you up 
            inside me, I want you all the way up me." He forced his full length into me. His penis 
            spread me open until the head met my womb.I lay impaled on him, staring into his eyes as he stayed still inside 
            me.
 "Do you want me to fuck you?" "Yes." "Say it." "I want you to fuck me, Gadreel. Please 
            fuck me, please fu- Oh! Oh, Gadreel! Aah!Aaaiee!"
 He plunged his mouth to mine and silenced 
            me with his tongue. His massive penis filledme and shafted up and out of me with increasing speed. My legs stiffened 
            and spread
 wider. My vagina stretched to accommodate his massive bulk. Gadreel 
            let go of my wrists
 and released my mouth. He gripped my shoulders. I sobbed as he leveraged 
            himself
 further up into me, but I loved how he filled me. I wrapped my legs 
            around him. I bore
 down on him. I squeezed the muscles of my vagina to tighten on him, 
            clenching and
 releasing as we settled into a steady, driving rhythm.
 I felt a low, tensing thrill growing inside 
            me. It mounted in intensity, rising in pitch as heworked me. He began to thrust harder. His penis head was slamming 
            up to my womb,
 driving and driving. My face was flushed, my breasts swollen and my 
            nipples excited
 from his chest rubbing again them. My womb was vibrant, alive to the 
            promise of his
 seed. I felt my canal undulating as he forced it wide with his penetrations. 
            I heard the slap
 of his sac against my cheeks.
 The tensing increased inside me, the neck 
            of my womb was throbbing. My blood wasbeating in my ears, making wild music with our panting breath. He 
            worked me faster and
 faster and then he rose up on his arms to force himself deeper into 
            me with short, hard,
 fast stabbing strokes. He flung his head back for an instant and then 
            his wild eyes burned
 into mine as his hot seed spurted into me. With every gush he shouted 
            his triumph. With a
 pulsating thrill that shimmered through my whole body, I felt the 
            neck of my womb jerk
 down to drink from the hot pool of semen. Again and again I cried 
            out as the pounding
 rhythm of my womb spread its waves through me.
 Then bliss came to Gadreel and me, deep and 
            silent, the bliss of the truly loved for whomnothing is hidden, nothing more is to be resolved, whose love is one...
 ...Eve did not return to Adam's village, but 
            lived out her days among us at Enoch, the cityCain named after his son. She lived another hundred years and Gadreel 
            was with her, and
 faithful to her, to the end.
 As time went by, the memory of her did not 
            fade. She became a goddess in the minds ofthe children and they built a temple to her. Penemue, the gentle Watcher 
            she came to trust
 the most after Gadreel, wrote down her history and it became a sacred 
            text cherished by
 her daughters. They celebrated her in prostitution rites, instituting 
            the seasons for the
 sowing of seed and for harvest in temples that were consecrated to 
            her. The account of
 her first love making with Gadreel became the guide for the initiation 
            rites of kings,
 reenacted by many generations after Cain.
 Shemyaza and I became priests of her temple, 
            along with the other Watchers at Enoch,teaching the arts of medicine, metal craft, writing, agriculture and 
            animal husbandry. We
 gave the people laws to govern their industry and trade, and civilization. 
            The foundation
 for it all, the plowing of women and the plowing of fields, the increase 
            in the population
 and the herds, all became one and the same until Our Lord looked upon 
            it and desired to
 sweep it all away. His creation had become an abomination to Him. 
            In the time of Noah,
 the only one of His creation he desired to save, he drowned everyone 
            and everything on
 the face of the Earth.
 But not before he had dealt with us. He learned 
            how I had seduced the women with mycosmetics and jewelry, knew Shemyaza's widespread mantra that love 
            should not be
 denied. All the Watchers were destroyed or buried. The Lord ascribed 
            all sin to me for my
 part in orchestrating the decision to live as we had done. Our solemn 
            oath to take women,
 sworn by every one us, did not save Shemyaza. As the highest among 
            us, he too was cast
 into the bowels of the Earth to await the final Judgment Day. On that 
            day we both shall
 burn until the end of time.
 As I wait, I remember. And smile. Jesus Starts His Own Family with Mary Magdelene 
            and Mary Martha It's a night I'll never forget. I'll also 
            never forget the way my heartskipped a beat the day I stood at the well. He was standing on
 the other side. This is my story, I hope you enjoy it.
 My name is Mary Magdelene, and this is the 
            story of the night things got out ofcontrol. Control isn't always a good thing, especially when you
 completely lose yourself in it. I remember the day I answered the
 door, it was the first time I saw Jesus. He was our new Rabbi along
 with his pretty wife Mary Martha, newlyweds only 19-years-old. They 
            had cum
 to the well, to gain some water from walking a long way. They asked
 to be allowed to drink. Once they were settled
 we became very close friends with them. Hanging out all the time,
 playing together as adults, having dinner together. It
 was great, and then it got a lot better.
 I have always had a somewhat open outlook 
            onthings. I've had several men in my lifetime, but this man was special.
 I've fucked various men for about 8 years. I was 22 at the time
 Never in our wildest dreams or imaginations were
 prepared for the events of that night. It all started with a little
 Kosher wine. We were gathered around, with other friends in a party, 
            taking
 glass after glass. Then someone had the idea to play truth or dare. 
            A
 very dangerous game when combined with wine. Next thing you know,
 David and Mary Martha were on one couch, and Jesus and I were on the 
            other
 one. First we were daring each other to flash, then to kiss, then 
            to
 touch, and then to make out. Mary Martha and David were first, they 
            had to
 go into the adjoining tent and make out for 10 minutes. When they 
            came out
 they were all disheveled, hair a mess, and the clothes they continued 
            to have
 on were a mess. Then Jesus and I
 had to do the same. Well, we did have some fun. I don't know what
 Mary Martha and David did, but I'll bet we topped it. I laid down 
            on the
 bed, he had his hand on my breasts, kissing my neck and my lips. I 
            got
 a hold of his neck, and began sucking and biting like a wild animal. 
            I
 remember the taste of him, the carnal desire I had for him. I put 
            my
 hand inside his robe, and grasped his cock. He was so hard, and then 
            he
 put his hand inside my shawl and began playing with my pussy. He put 
            a
 finger inside of me, and I convulsed. He got a hold of what he refers
 to as "the nubby thing". After we came out of the room, 
            we were a
 wreck. What clothes we still had on were completely messed up, hair 
            all over the place.
 My pussy was wet and feeling the draft from Jesus' cum seeping from 
            my
 vulva lips. I could definitely "feel" my eggs accepting 
            those little fishies that would
 go on to "make" Josephus, our son.
 Not to
 mention, I left his neck looking like a leper. We all went outside 
            to
 rest after that, and then something interesting happened.
 I was dared to kiss Mary Martha's pussy. I had never done that before, 
            but
 she was so young and sweet. I figured what the hell, go for it. So,
 she slipped her shawl completely off, and now she was completely nude.
 I stroked her complete pussy with my tongue. She tasted like cherry 
            pie, no
 joke, and this was by far the prettiest pussy I had ever seen. It 
            was
 so pink, and creamy white, and bare. Yum! After that, Mary Magdelene 
            dared
 David to have sex with her. The question of protection came up, and
 David said, "who cares, we are all adults and married, aren't 
            we?"
 Good enough, sex twice with a hot 19-year-old
 works for me! While David took Mary Magdelene into the room, Jesus 
            and I
 decided to have some fun of our own. I laid down on the couch, by 
            this
 time my shawl had long been off. He climbed on top of me, and I pulled 
            his
 man stick straight into my hot cave.
 He felt so incredibly good, I came instantly.
 He was so smooth, and so young, and so hot! Well, after that we all
 naked as jaybirds and we all fell into a heap together, the men's 
            cocks hard and poking
 at anything that would allow them to poke into it. That we were all 
            horny as Hell would
 have been
 an understatement. We finished, cum running out of my pussy and Mary 
            Martha's pussy,
 to flow in
 rivers down out naked inner thighs. I had a feeling that we were had 
            created a family that
 would
 ensure the bloodline of the Savior.
 Jesus and I sat close to one another, and
 David and Mary Martha made out in the middle of the street. She decided
 that she was tired, so she just lay there. I followed because I was
 a little weary myself. The next thing we knew, our males were
 fingerfucking us, and we all four became one big fucking machine. 
            I'm not
 sure who was doing what or to who, but it was all good. Mary Martha 
            kicked
 the guys away, and we ended up in a 69 position. We stayed
 that way for a while, and I could've suckled on her all night long 
            she
 tasted so good. Eventually we all ended up back in the living room,
 where David took Mary Martha from behind, and I rode into multiple 
            orgasms
 with Jesus. We finally had our fill of one another, and called it 
            a
 night. The next day Mary Martha sent me a text message that said, 
            "talk
 about love they neighbor....lol." That was that.
 The weeks to follow have been a blur, David 
            and I completely smitten bythem. All David thinks about is Mary Martha these days, and I'm head 
            over
 heels for Jesus. I came to realize that sex is not love, and that 
            night
 was just sex. I asked Jesus if he feels anything for me, and it's
 purely sexual for him. Mary Martha just wants to be friends and put 
            that
 night behind us. David is pushing for more, in doing so pushing Mary 
            Martha
 away.
 I forgot to mention that one night Jesus and 
            I had some fun while Davidand Mary Martha were out tending the sheep. I brought him upstairs, 
            and seduced
 him. I climbed on top of him, and rode him with such passion and loss
 of control it made my head spin. He then took me from behind, and
 shot his cum deep inside of me. We vowed to take it
 to the grave and make a baby between us. I had to have him sober, 
            I had to feel him just
 once
 more. We had some fun in days to follow, whenever we could find time
 to be alone. I sucked his cock a couple of times, and he tasted so
 good I could've drank every drop of him. I'd still love to have that
 chance, but our fun ended the night that Mary Martha sat us all down 
            to talk
 to us, she was afraid that Jesus and I were going to try to make a 
            babybetween us, and
 how right she was! I still flirt with him, and say things to him to 
            make him think
 about what he can have whenever he wants to. Do I want to do it again?
 Of course, you haven't seen this guy. Eyes dark as night, hair as
 black as coal, and his scent will drive any woman out of her mind. 
            I
 find myself reminiscing in my memories of him. Every time I see him 
            my
 heart skips a beat. I know we can only be friends, and I'm slowly
 learning to accept that. I still have a carnal desire for him, I just
 want to eat him alive! Given the chance I just might, even though 
            I
 know it's wrong. He said he wants me in a very wrong way. He said 
            he
 loves my voice and the way I smell. He'll never know just what he
 means to me, and that's okay, because I know he couldn't feel it, 
            too.
 A part of me is in love with him, all of me is in lust with him, and
 I'm hoping that between the two there will be another little humanbeing 
            starting to form
 in my tummy.. David is still coping
 with his feelings for Mary Martha, and I think that they may be thinking 
            aboutstarting
 something like Jesus and I are doing. As we continue, thejealousy 
            seems to be
 disappearing and we are
 all becoming much more than just friends. I will always love
 him, and I will always want him in much the same way thatmillions 
            of so-called Christian
 zealots seem to lust after Himas they go about worshipping him every 
            day that theSun
 Gods used for their worship services. I can't see that changing, he's
 simply amazing in every way and would be such a good daddy to my baby. 
            His smile, his
 touch, his laugh, his
 eyes, especially his eyes. It's like he looks into my soul, and sees
 something no one else can see. I can only hope that when he looks
 back on his fondest memories, that I will be one of them, and that 
            he
 will always smile when he thinks of me.
     
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