Page 14 of Lucifer's Revenge
“I’m here to see if you have anything to make it real.”
“I don’t know if I understand.”
Starr withdrew her sketch book and flipped to the first page of her brother in his everyday life. “This is my brother. He is the president of a local motorcycle club, and I have his permission to make him into this for Halloween.” She flipped the page and Lilith saw Lucifer staring back at her. She actually grabbed the book and brought it closer.
“Oh my, this is wonderful. You drew this?”
“I did, and like I said, I have the impressions of his teeth, that I will be making into fangs, both upper and lower, the forehead implants, the cheek implants. I’m already. I did a practice run on a mannequin and it took me six hours to get from this to this.” She flipped the pages, from Luc to Lucifer. “I have four of them to do.” She did the same with the next three people she had drawn, and watched as Lilith studied them.
“What do you want from me?”
“Am I depicting these characters as they really are in history, or am I basing these drawings off of what I believe they look like because of how Hollywood portrays them.”
“Ah, I see what you mean.” Lilith nodded and told her to bring her things with her. It took five minutes to get to their destination in a different part of the library, and Lilith told Starr to leave her things on a nearby table. When they went into the aisles with books on either side, Lilith stopped, looked, then nodded with a grin. “Here.”
“What’s this?”
“This section,” Lilith began as she laid her hand over several books, and raised it to the shelves above and below from where she’d removed the first book. “This section contain the oldest books this library has. They aren’t as old as the contents, but they are old, so please, be careful with them.”
“What’s in them?”
“Images and depictions of Lucifer, and other fallen angels from the Mid-Evil times.” She took the book back and gingerly opened it so Starr could see. “I don’t know if the sketch you showed me was everything you plan to do for your makeup, but did you know that Lucifer was actually an angel that God tossed out of Heaven?”
“That was real?”
“Yes, and when he fell, he still had his angel wings. God didn’t take them away from him. In these books you’ll see where he still has his wings when he took over the underworld. I don’t know if you need to research your other characters, but if you do, everything would be in this section here, top to bottom.”
“Thank you so much, what did you say your name was again?”
“I didn’t, but it’s Lilith.” She paused and grinned when Starr looked at her with wide eyes. “Correct, I was named for Adam’s first wife. I don’t know if you’re into meanings of names, butI am totally opposite of my meaning. My name means ‘night demon’, but I am totally opposite of that.”
Starr grinned and started to giggle. “The picture I showed you of my brother?”
“Yes? I don’t want to speak out of line, but he’s very handsome.”
“Thank you. Anyway, his real name is Lucius which means ‘bringer of light’. Totally opposite of what he is. He’s not evil, but he loves everything dark. His favorite pastime is to visit haunted sites. The only TV he watches is those paranormal shows on television. I don’t know if I told you this or not, but he’s the president of the local motorcycle club. The club name and the bar he owns have the same name.”
“Which is?”
“Hell’s Coffin. In the club, his club name is Lucifer, and that means, ‘King of Darkness’. That’s who Luc is. He has a dark personality, but not evil.”
“I understand. What about your name?”
“Starr, with two r’s, means bright light.” She shook her head as she laughed. “I’m just like Luc, I love the dark arts, and everything that normal people shy away from.”
“Man, we could so be friends,” Lilith giggled, then sighed heavily. “I best get back to work.”
“What time do you close?”
“We close at six tonight.”
“Thank you, if you don’t see me check out, come look for me, I think I lost my way when I followed you.”
“Just follow the light,” Lilith laughed as she pointed toward the ceiling and there was a sign with an arrow, but it was light. They shared a laugh again, and Lilith left Starr to do her research.
Back at the front desk, Lilith didn’t have time to tell Sally what she had been doing, because she had forgotten that todaywas the day for pre-school reading, and she had volunteered to read to the children that day. Two hours later, once the kids were done, she took her lunch break, then went back to work. It was a hectic afternoon until around three o’clock when she looked up in surprise.
“What is it?”
