Family gathering at the Rawlard estate
Your mother told me you were considering going to the Surface for some inexplicable reason.
Now let me tell you this straight-on – don’t poke your nose there. Yes, I’m serious Mairick, don’t give me that idiotic smirk of yours. You might think you’re a big fly here but you know angels have been training to kill us for thousands of years and they’ve, believe it or not, become quite good at it. You might have realized that if you had the brains to ask someone more experienced than you who remembered the Great War. Heck, even you could probably remember if you weren’t busy scratching your ass half the time.
Nowadays the young angels are taught to hate and kill abnormal beings on sight, resulting in both blind submission to “the Council” and unwavering belief in their own powers and righteousness. The arrogance that sprouts from that is based on the ignorance of the real demons being at least just as powerful as the angels.
Furthermore, in order to keep the low-class angels submissive the Council created the image of demons as vicious monsters, while concealing the truth about the real demons being held in the same respect as angels and on the Surface are being feared or even secretly protected by the Council themselves! Haha can you imagine the looks on their faces if they were to find out some of the decisions made by their great leaders were influenced by the very same beings they hunt!
See, this is the risk of believing in authority. You become a winged brainless vegetable, a dog and nothing more. Of course, you always need rules, but you also need personal freedom. If my kingdom is to one day be ruled by a reckless and ignorant fool like you, then I would have to agree that the time to change leaders has come and accept any consequence – even if my land has to go to the incubus tribes of mirati.
Us demons don’t follow a strict hierarchy, and our abilities and shapes vary greatly in compare to the angelic ones. When an angel dies their immortal souls are passed on, but their memories are usually locked away from them, giving the children skill, but no personal experience greater than a lifetime. In comparison a demon has to spend their life in one form and when they have experienced it fully and learned all about it they participate in a ceremony. In that their bodies are cut open to possibly allow for a higher being to rise from the shell, their memories intact. Participating in the ritual is both an honor and a risk because often times the process is rushed by an impatient or greedy demon and the result isn’t a metamorphose but death. Are you listening, Mairick! No-one will be able to save your sorry-ass if that were to happen and you’ll free a space for another demon to be born in Hell.
Listen, we’re not all that different from angels, despite what anyone will tell you. The major difference between us is our perception of growth, development and death. Demons accept death as a necessary evil to evolution and to making their offspring stronger, IF they survive. Angels deny and resent death, clinging to the idea of eternal selfless perfection, yet it catches up on them too, one way or another.
Truth is, our bodies are much more flexible with living conditions than theirs – try shoving them in an oven and see if they can last longer than three days before they melt to ashes. Then again, that’s a stupid example because instead of killing them it would be much more beneficial to you to help yourself to their flesh and blood and consume the energy they waste with their existence.
So let this be a friendly warning, stupid son. I am much more aware than your mother that you need to follow your own path, but don’t get ahead of yourself. There is the time for everything and if you do want to try your luck up there - do so. But make sure you’re prepared and sure of what you have to gain if you do.