HE WAS, I MEAN, once upon a time when he started playing with dolls. He looked down on my team\u2019s handiwork and said, \u201cThere\u2019s something missing.\u201d He told Michael and Lilith to go wander around and see if they could figure out what.<\/p>\n
Dolls.<\/p>\n
God saw Michael and Lilith walking around, said, \u201cThat\u2019s it,\u201d and there he went playing in the mud. Meanwhile, he told Michael and Lilith to name the animals and plants and oh by the way, do this thing right here so I can see how it all fits together.<\/p>\n
They did that thing. Right there.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t stop doing that thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, I got it. You can stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lilith laid in the grass with a satisfied smile on her face, her eyes closed, her hands over those mounds on her chest\u2014they hadn\u2019t named their own parts yet\u2014and said, \u201cGod.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere must be different ways of doing that and getting the same result.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMeh, don\u2019t worry about it. I\u2019ll smooth all those details out later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, c\u2019mon. Really?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine. Show me what you have in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
So Lilith told Michael to lie on his back and she worked that thing between his legs until it got hard. Then she sucked on it. We all watched because Lilith was really creative and we all liked the things she came up with. She painted all the bright things in the water and everybody thought they were wonderful. So did I. They really were gorgeous. She was a very talented artist.<\/p>\n
Michael was enjoying that so much he almost didn\u2019t notice when she got on top of him. His eyes flew open. His twig shrank again. He opened his mouth and yelled, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t think so!\u201d<\/p>\n
This was disappointing.<\/p>\n
Lilith stopped and said, \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are not going to be on top of me. I am the second-in-charge and you report to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had a point. We all looked at each other and nodded.<\/p>\n
She was so hurt, we all decided that, right or not, Michael could have said it differently. \u201cWhat difference does it make?\u201d she asked defensively. \u201cIf we do it right, we\u2019ll get that funny feeling at the end that we both like and besides, God told me I could experiment. You know my experiments always turn out awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, too, was true. Now we were wondering why Michael had a problem with it. We were also wondering how that funny feeling felt, but God said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m not quite sure what\u2019s going on there. I was pretty sure his would work, but I didn\u2019t think hers would. It\u2019s so small.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps being on Earth makes it work for angels, Dear,\u201d Goddess said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat can be the only reason. Lucifer, did you put something special in the soil down there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll have to ask my team,\u201d I said, \u201cbut Lilith doesn\u2019t seem to be upset about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, she wouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Goddess sighed dreamily.<\/p>\n
The argument got louder. The Earth started trembling a little. The lions went and hid behind a big rock and peeked over it to watch. The giraffes couldn\u2019t hide. The snakes had a front-row seat and they were high-fiving each other every time Lilith stomped her foot and made the wind blow leaves off the trees.<\/p>\n
The leaves weren\u2019t supposed to do that. I made a note to talk to my team about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cLucifer,\u201d God said to me. \u201cI don\u2019t have time for this. Go down there and break it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeriously? Why am I always the one having to fix things I didn\u2019t make or break?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust do it,\u201d he said wearily and disappeared.<\/p>\n
I popped up in between them before Lilith hit Michael in the face with that rock on the end of the limb hanging off\u2014 Okay, I\u2019m telling this story from 2019 in doll years. She balled up her fist and nearly punched his lights out. I caught it in time. \u201cLilith, that\u2019s not necessary. You know Michael\u2019s a little touchy about rank. Think of it from his point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he enjoys it as much as I do, what\u2019s the problem?\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the dumbest question I\u2019d heard to date and we didn\u2019t have dates. Or time. So that was the dumbest question ever asked in the vastness of Infinity. \u201cPride.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can get over it. I want to be on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly you can\u2019t be if his twig doesn\u2019t work when you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s doing that on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
I think about that. \u201cI don\u2019t think so. I\u2019ll ask God later, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s something it\u2019ll do if it\u2019s not being touched. You were touching it. Then you weren\u2019t. Then he got mad. I think that\u2019s correlative.\u201d<\/p>\n
She gnashed her teeth.<\/p>\n
Michael went around me to snarl at her. \u201cI am not going to let you assert rank on me that you don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n
I turned to him. \u201cWe need to see if and how it works so we can replicate it. Do it. This is a group project and she is on my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m leaving,\u201d Lilith said. \u201cBeam me up, Scotty.\u201d She didn\u2019t really say that.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I said gently, trying to placate her. Michael really was being a jerk about it. \u201cOkay, so his issue is rank. You like it when he\u2019s on top, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just said,\u201d she growled at me, \u201cthat you needed to see how it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suddenly, God\u2019s voice boomed, \u201cDo what I told you to do and quit whining.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich thing?\u201d she yelled back.<\/p>\n
\u201cFiguring out how the dolls work!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMake him be on the bottom and I will!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have time for this!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n She couldn\u2019t go back to the office without someone getting on her case for being as prideful as Michael, so she looked around until the horizon caught her attention. (I must say, forming the Earth into a ball was one of my more brilliant ideas.) She started walking.<\/p>\n \u201cYou get back here right now!\u201d Michael yelled at her.<\/p>\n She ignored him and kept walking.<\/p>\n \u201cFine!\u201d he yelled. \u201cBe that way, but you\u2019ll be alone because I will demote anybody who tries to visit you.\u201d<\/p>\n We all gasped. Wind ripped through the trees and there went more leaves. What did we do wrong with those leaves?<\/p>\n Being demoted to angel from archangel is a disgrace. It takes eons in doll time to work your way back up and if you do something else, you could get busted all the way down to minion. You might as well snap yourself out of existence.<\/p>\n It\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n None<\/em> of us is going to risk it.<\/p>\n But later, a thousand years in doll time or thereabouts, I got to thinking about it and \u2026 it really wasn\u2019t fair. Michael was totally out of line. So I went to see God about it.<\/p>\n He sighed. \u201cI know. I tried talking to her and she won\u2019t speak to me.\u201d<\/p>\n My jaw dropped. Who<\/em> would dare ignore God? He was the oldest intelligence in the whole of Infinity. Goddess floated in. \u201cShe\u2019s talking to me,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s lonely. Lucifer, go keep her company.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut Michael said\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMichael,\u201d she said archly, \u201cdoes not override me<\/em>, and I have already told him I\u2019m unhappy with the way he\u2019s acting like an intelligence fresh off the glow.\u201d<\/p>\n That probably left a mark. Michael adored Goddess. He probably thought she\u2019d take his side since she usually does.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he still won\u2019t comply?\u201d I asked carefully.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019ll let her be on top, but his twig won\u2019t work, and it doesn\u2019t work on mind commands alone. There\u2019s no point.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI need to fix that,\u201d God said absently from his worktable.<\/p>\n \u201cDear, I think anger gets in the way of the chemicals that power that section of the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMmm, you may be right, but there are mechanical issues I have to work out first. Hinges and joints and suchlike.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMmm hm. Go on now, Lucifer, there\u2019s a good archangel. My baby\u2019s feelings are hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n I went down and found out it\u2019s really nice down there. We did a good job. Maybe, instead of fixing the leaves so they always stay green, we could make them change colors every once in a while. That would be amazing.<\/p>\n I walked to the horizon but it always seemed to be just as far away as it was the last step I took. I called that up to my team and they said they\u2019d look into it. It took a couple thousand years in doll time to find her. She was sitting with her back to a boulder, crying, with a panther practically in her lap, purring while she scratched his head and ears. That purr box worked too. A doll comforter. But he was way too big for a doll, so I told my team to make a smaller one that would fit in a doll\u2019s lap and do the same thing.<\/p>\n I sat down beside her. \u201cHi.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHi,\u201d she sniffled. \u201cI\u2019m not going back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, c\u2019mon.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have never gotten along\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is true. You know why?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo idea.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe loves you. You know, the way God loves Goddess.\u201d<\/p>\n She turned her head and glared at me. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s not supposed to happen. There can\u2019t be two couples.\u201d<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know why not. Was it a rule or the forces that kept us from doing certain things? \u201cThat\u2019s why he\u2019s mad.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he\u2019s taking it out on me. Is it his pride or not?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo his pride is bigger than his love for me and therefore it doesn\u2019t matter whether we can be together the way God and Goddess are.\u201d<\/p>\n I nodded slowly. Impeccable logic.<\/p>\n \u201cSo there\u2019s no point in me going back at all. Not to Michael. Not to the office.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh, no<\/em>. I couldn\u2019t do without Lilith and her creativity on my team. But she was serious and archangels didn\u2019t bluff. We didn\u2019t know how. So she\u2019d thought about it and decided she couldn\u2019t live with Michael the way they both wanted (at least, I assumed she reciprocated Michael\u2019s feelings) (or more) (because she was so hurt) and she couldn\u2019t bear to see him around the office. She\u2019d rather be alone.<\/p>\n Completely<\/em> alone.<\/p>\n I sighed. \u201cWell, if you change your mind, let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWHAT DO YOU MEAN you let her go?!<\/em>\u201d Goddess bellowed at me. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to disobey. That\u2019s twice<\/em> my children have disobeyed me and I\u2019m not going to have it!\u201d<\/p>\n What was she going to do? Snap Lilith out of existence? I didn\u2019t say anything. I was in almost as much trouble as Lilith, although I hadn\u2019t expected to be or I\u2019d have dragged her back. I didn\u2019t like getting in trouble with the Deities any more than anybody else did.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s bad enough God\u2019s going to give the dolls free will, but you are part of the family and you are to serve the good of the family! Lilith is unmatched in her specialty. I don\u2019t want the\u2014 What\u2019d he call them?\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFish.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes, those, to be ugly and drab. I want them all<\/em> painted. So pretty,\u201d she sighed. Then she glared at me again. \u201cShe\u2019s only gotten through half of them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGoddess, I\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo excuses!\u201d She turned and stormed into her private Infinity.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know if she\u2019d ever speak to me again. And then I<\/em> got mad at Lilith.<\/p>\n \u201cMeanwhile, back at the Earth,\u201d God said vaguely from his workroom, \u201cMichael\u2019s wandering around alone and I still don\u2019t know if the twigs work because they\u2019re on Earth. Go get Gaia and summon Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n Gaia had had eyes for Michael since Infinity. She\u2019d be thrilled.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d God and Goddess said some time later, Michael and Gaia standing in front of the Deities while we all gathered behind them. \u201cSince Lilith has decided to run away, Gaia will be taking her place\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n Gaia squealed with joy.<\/p>\n Michael sighed.<\/p>\n \u201cGaia, I have a doll for you.\u201d He gave it to her and she turned it over every which way, looking at her.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to put me in this shell?\u201d she asked. Gaia was nothing if not smart. None of us had thought of that.<\/p>\n \u201cYes. Very good. But that\u2019s just a prototype. I\u2019ll send you down and make one out of Earth clay and put you in that one. Better. Stronger. Faster.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWill my twig work like Lilith\u2019s did?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI put a little dab on the doll to replicate Goddess\u2019s. That should work. But you must be on the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOf course!\u201d<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t know if she was agreeing because she wanted to be with Michael or because she\u2019s a pleaser.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing is, you won\u2019t have any memory of this life or who you are here. The experiment is flawed in several different ways if you remember.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, we didn\u2019t know what to think about that.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd just so nothing can trigger your memory, your name down there will be Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n She shrugged. \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWait,\u201d Michael said. \u201cAre you going to do that to me too?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes. Earth clay and total memory wipe and new name. I don\u2019t want you to pull out your rank each time she does something you don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n Gaia did a lot of things that annoyed Michael. That was why he stayed away from her as much as possible. He couldn\u2019t order her to stop having feelings for him.<\/p>\n \u201cYour name will be Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n Michael rolled his eyes in resignation.<\/p>\n God made a shooing motion. \u201cMichael, you go first. I already have your doll shell waiting for you. I still have to put the finishing touches on Gaia\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIncluding that dab.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes, yes, yes,\u201d he said wearily. \u201cA little dab of clay.\u201d<\/p>\n So we watched. Michael\u2019s doll shell was lying on the ground, lifeless. Michael whooshed down and squished himself inside the doll shell. \u201cI\u2019m trapped,\u201d he said, panicking.<\/p>\n \u201cYou won\u2019t notice it once I\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n And he drew the veil. We could see out, but Mich\u2014Adam\u2014couldn\u2019t see in.<\/p>\n The doll shell with Michael trapped inside was still.<\/p>\n \u201cDoes it work?\u201d Goddess whispered, watching, wringing her hands.<\/p>\n \u201cIt should. I left enough room for one intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n We watched. Waited. The doll stirred. He made a disgusting sound with his nose and turned over on his side, then stilled again.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s it doing?\u201d Goddess asked, still whispering.<\/p>\n \u201cWinding itself,\u201d God answered, then showed her one of the first ones he built. It had wings in its back. \u201cIt moves for a while if I turn it like this.\u201d He turned it. And turned it. And turned it until it was so hard to turn he stopped. Then the doll came to life. \u201cBut the key\u2014\u201d The wings. \u201c\u2014are inefficient and clumsy no matter where I put them, so I tried an internal mechanism. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGaia, your turn.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut \u2026 there\u2019s no doll there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNot yet,\u201d he said. He grabbed another doll and Gaia\u2019s hand and went down. \u201cHey, it\u2019s nice down here. Good job, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n We preened.<\/p>\n He laid Gaia\u2019s doll by Michael\u2019s winding doll shell and said, \u201cGet in.\u201d<\/p>\n She whimpered. \u201cI don\u2019t like close spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo you want to be with Michael or not?\u201d<\/p>\n Oh, then we all got it. She\u2019d obey just to have the chance to be with Michael. We nodded at each other with how clever that was, but then, that was why he was the Deity and we were not.<\/p>\n She got in. \u201cGod,\u201d she whimpered.<\/p>\n \u201cHold on.\u201d<\/p>\n Goddess drew the veil further and Gaia\u2019s doll shell went limp to wind.<\/p>\n But God knelt in the Earth clay, dug something out of Michael\u2019s doll shell\u2019s side and shoved it into Gaia\u2019s. Then he picked up a little dab of Earth clay and put it in the same area Michael\u2019s twig was. \u201cThere,\u201d he said, slapping his hands on his knees. \u201cMostly office materials, with a little Earth clay to run it on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n He stood up and dusted off his hands before he came back to the office.<\/p>\n We watched them wind, which was boring, but then they started to move, just like the creatures my team and I had fashioned wholly out of office materials. They had no Earth clay in them at all.<\/p>\n They sat up and looked at each other. There was no recognition there whatsoever which was a little disconcerting.<\/p>\n God was watching most intently and he began wringing his hands like Goddess. \u201cShould we draw back the veil a little?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n WHAT HAPPENED WAS nothing. Nothing at all happened.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are they doing<\/em>?\u201d God asked in frustration.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the question is why aren\u2019t they doing it,\u201d Goddess said as she painted a fish. She being the second oldest intelligence in Infinity, could do it so much better than Lilith, but she had other duties.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re just wandering around looking at things.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt least you know their joints and hinges work.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes, but their fuel system doesn\u2019t. They take in, but they don\u2019t exhaust.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMust they? You have simply made an efficient doll, which would make sense since you are a master.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI meant<\/em> to make them exhaust.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTry, try again, Dear.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLucifer, go down there and see if you can get them to do the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n I sighed. I\u2019d go check on Lilith while I was there.<\/p>\n \u201cHey, Gaia,\u201d I said once I got there.<\/p>\n She was startled and looked at me as if I were a stranger. Then I remembered that to her, I was.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho are you? And why do you look like that?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLook like what?\u201d I looked down and saw my normal glowing self.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re glowing.\u201d<\/p>\n Then I was getting annoyed.<\/p>\n She\u2019s inside a doll she doesn\u2019t remember she\u2019s inside a doll she doesn\u2019t remember she\u2019s inside a doll she doesn\u2019t remember.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDoes it bother you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI can make myself look like anything I want.\u201d<\/p>\n She looked around and pointed to the iridescent smart-aleck snakes. They were some of my best work. I sighed and made myself look like that.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI want to talk to you about why you\u2019re not doing what you\u2019re supposed to be doing with Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat am I supposed<\/em> to be doing?\u201d she asked snidely.<\/p>\n I asked the nearby chimpanzees to demonstrate.<\/p>\n She watched carefully. \u201cDo it again,\u201d she said, a little puzzled.<\/p>\n \u201cSee, the twig goes in there and then I guess you get a tingly feeling or \u2026 something.\u201d I wasn\u2019t quite sure on that.<\/p>\n Her lip curled. \u201cThat\u2019s gross.\u201d<\/p>\n I opened my mouth but \u2026 well, she was right. It didn\u2019t seem gross before. \u201cGod.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe doll shell makes her think differently.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a feature, not a bug.\u201d He didn\u2019t really say that. \u201cHer personality\u2019s still there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, it\u2019s not. She\u2019s not dogging Michael\u2019s heels.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe,\u201d he said mysteriously, \u201cher feelings weren\u2019t strong enough for him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen how do you expect them to do the thing? That\u2019s why I\u2019m here. To find out why they aren\u2019t doing the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am not doing the thing,\u201d Eve said flatly, waving toward the chimpanzees who were still doing the thing.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can hear me and God talking?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPffftt. He only comes down here every day<\/em> to walk with us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut you think I looked weird.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou<\/em> do. He<\/em> does not.\u201d<\/p>\n I tried a different tack. \u201cOkay, why<\/em> don\u2019t you want to do the thing?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s mean to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat?!\u201d God and I roared at the same time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe makes me pick all the food, straighten up from where we slept, and groom the wolves. He doesn\u2019t talk to me except to tell me what to do and he says I have<\/em> to obey him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, at least we know his<\/em> personality is still in there,\u201d I muttered.<\/p>\n God laughed.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know you were so touchy,\u201d I said to Eve. \u201cBefore, you\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n God cleared his throat.<\/p>\n I took a deep breath and thought about how to word this. \u201cIt seemed to us like you and Adam would be a good team. You know, hanging out, talking, naming more stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNaming stuff?<\/em>\u201d she shrieked. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t let me name a fungus if I didn\u2019t go behind his back and tell it its name was mushroom. They listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n They probably listened to Gaia because she\u2019d been on the fungus creation team.<\/p>\n \u201cHas she always been like this?\u201d I asked God.<\/p>\n \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo \u2026 you gave him Lilith-Lite?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you wonder why they\u2019re not doing the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n [ \u2026 perhaps more to come \u2026 ]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n HE WAS, I MEAN, once upon a time when he started playing with dolls. He looked down on my team\u2019s handiwork and said, \u201cThere\u2019s something missing.\u201d He told Michael and Lilith to go wander around and see if they could figure out what. Dolls. 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