Chapter 219 - Lilin

He shuddered, deaf to my protestation.  "I thought, that by giving Eve – you - the ability to create life, only beauty would come from us.  But God abandoned Eve and cast us out of Paradise, leaving her in my care.  Still, I was hopeful.  We eked out a living.  But the birth nearly killed her, it caused Eve such pain.  There was such blood, I thought the Red Sea had flooded its banks and was pouring out of her soul.  The child was a tiny mewling thing: blue, strangled by its umbilical cord.  It died in our arms."