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The shadows shifted, uncomfortable in their gloom.
But He didn't answer.
Slowly and painfully, Lisa stood up.
"You can't, can you?"
She pulled herself upright, straightened her clothes, smoothed down her hair and said, "You really can't,
can you?"
Again the shadows moved, scurrying away, afraid and uncertain.
"GIVE ME WHAT IS MINE!"
His voice was like thunder. Anger like she had never heard.
But suddenly she wasn't scared any more.
The Destroyer Of Worlds? She started to laugh. It started as a giggle. That turned into a chuckle. That became
a guffaw. That ended in hysterical, maniacal laughter.
"So Louis, can I call you that?" she managed between fits " Big Red? Darkness Personified? Everything
Unholy? " She was now laughing uncontrollably, curled up, clutching her stomach.
"And yet you can't take this small thing I am carrying inside me, can you? You can't just rip it from my womb…it
needs me to nurture it. Love it. To fulfil it's destiny, it's needs its mothers love. Its mothers Earthly love."
A deep rumble started the shake the foundations of her soul. She knew He was desperate now.
Her laughter subsided and she slowly stood upright. She grinned at the door and it's now silent visitor.
"Bye bye"
Lisa then turned and walked up the stairs behind her. She stopped at the top stair and spun around to face the
door.
"You are not going to win. This is my life. Whatever I am. Whoever I choose to be. You can't take back time.
I am now what I shall forever be. I was wrong to think anything else."
And with that she toppled forward.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"
The very core of the Earth shook with His voice. The air grew thick with His desperation.
And still Lisa fell. She hit the first step and fell headlong into the next. Over and over she fell, tumbling,
tumbling, down and still further down. With each bruise, each broken bone, she kept smiling.
As her broken body hit the floor, He gave out an almighty roar that cascaded around the world. Earthquakes, plague
and disease ravaged the planet. Tens of thousands were killed.
And Lisa lay, dying. She knew what she had done. She grieved for the dead. She grieved for the dying.
And she grieved for her unborn child.
But she knew she had beaten Him. Where she would go from here, she had no idea. She hoped it wasn't down…
And with that Lovely Lisa's crumpled body gave one last desperate breath and died.
And the shadows gave up their positions and slithered off to wherever shadows go when darkness recedes.
And He left Dominion.
Sulking.
And waiting.
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