A Love In Dark Times

Even the darkest night, in the most absurd war, did not look so frightening, the cries of pain that nobody seemed to hear were mixed with that feeling of anguish and pessimism, they were walls of hopelessness mixed with reddish mud, from t balcony of that landscape you could see an endless ochre landscape, full of atrocities, where you could read the pain in the faces of the victims and the executioners, Lucifer tried to explain some things to Luisa without seeing himself as the guilty one, in the end he excused himself at work.

Please tell me what you want, why have you brought me here,” Luisa asked, eager to leave this place that made her anxious and nauseous.

ll tell you, first I want you to come with me to see two things," he said, taking her up a spiral staircase that ended in a large dungeon that smelled damp.

-What is this" Luisa asked disoriented.

“This is the last basement of the underworld, it's the limit, look at that,” Lucifer told her, showing her a large giant in a block of ice.

“That's Judas,” asked Luisa.

No, of course not, that Judas, he was never here, he was a traitor because it was his turn, he was in the plan of that chos; one, he would have arrived here, I would have treated him well, it was a little unfair what happened with that guy, but wh am 1 to judge those sacred designs, this colossal leviathan is the personification of evil, A being that has the power to destroy universes and even existence itself, when he emerged it was difficult to catch him, that's why we had to make a team with the best of the universe where most of them perished, even the great master and others of that league were there, the result was this.

“Why didn’t you just destroy it," Luisa seemed to only have questions.

-Right, that's what I would have done, only the boss said that if did that it could rise again, that it was better to have it there inert as a symbol, now look I show you, something else more incredible, -Lucifer took her to a window, there agains the wall, -Look, that's Las Capas, that's the place where we all want to go.

-Is it paradise” Luisa continued with the questioner.

-It's not, paradise is something more beautiful, that plane is Las Capas, the boss created it as a prize for the winners and forged some keys that he spread throughout the universe, the objective was for a warrior to collect them all, to enter the and enjoy its treasures, look carefully, -Luisa looked out of the window seeing the beautiful landscape of the sunny beac in the distance she saw some towers that looked like gold, her mouth watered seeing the sweet fruits that hung on those trees, she even stretched out her hand trying to grab them and her hand hit a kind of glass.

That's a kind of torture, He placed that precise window here and nothing can happen without the blessed keys, we have see and desire without being able to have and taste, an eternal dilemma, we have wings in the void.

-1 know what you want is for me to unfreeze that beast or break this window, right?

-No, my dear Luisa, you can't do it, at least not with your current power, I require other things that I'm sure you can,” and the king of the underworld took her to a place where the demons were diverted even by the walls, avoiding stepping on that ground, it was an immense crater that was still smoking.

Here is the place where I fell in disgrace, the first thing I want in this place is for you to try to change me again, I want th try it and Ill get you out of here.

- don’t know how to do it,” replied Luisa crying.

Just try to think that you enter the sun, feel its warmth, feel happiness, love and peace, which are things that I can't, and imagine that you sow them in me like seeds that you yourself make germinate and bloom, imagine that you colour my shadows of pain, visualise how a ray of violet light from the sky floods my being, changing my atoms, in that way I try it t last of your class.

“That means I failed,” replied Luisa.

No, things got out of control, maybe this time it will be different the same, what matters is the process, come on try it, fi of all you must relax, relieve yourself, you must be like the air that always escapes looking for the sky, not like a piece of buried iron, creative thought is light that resembles the air; this place is built of stress and rudeness, of coarse and compact matter that always looks for the bottom and doesn't pass through or reflect the light. Then you must think light! without worries, let go of the worries that you won't solve by thinking about them, be like the tide that goes smoothly an moulds the rock, don't force things, transform them, be how judo uses the strength of the opponent, be like the air that i not limited in a body, don't limit yourself in your interior in a small form, occupy the whole universe and claim its power without fear of it running out, because it is infinite, do it believing that it already happened in the best perfect way, do it now!

Luisa grabbed him and put him in the centre of the crater, and began to pray, she imagined that her spirit was growing, occupying the whole universe, feeling the heat of the stars and the cold of the extreme places, she felt the infinite love o the constant creation and the power that makes everything work perfectly, finally she was invaded by the desire to do something, She felt some enormous eyes that watched her smiling, blowing a white ray that was divided in the rays of th rainbow, she came to her senses, in front of her was Lucifer, his bat wings were transformed into golden feathers, his enormous horns disappeared, his black dress was filled with lights, even a melody of harps could be heard, she made it, Luisa knelt down with joy when she contemplated this miracle.

The demons seeing the brightness of the light rushed at her with the intention of destroying them, with the intention of devouring the fountain, Lucifer smiled contemplating himself and declared:

“itis like the last time.

He came out of that beam of light, immediately changed again, in an instant he slaughtered the demons that were still trying to devour him and those that were attacking Luisa. Wings and chunks fell everywhere and he shouted:

“Who dares to challenge me, anyone who dares to claim my position?

The demons disappeared and only the moans of eternal pain could be heard. Luisa crying asked him:

-is that what always happens?

Yes, this is the only place where they can change me, only that they attack me, they have been about to devour me, that the nature of those envious beings, they only want to destroy the one who has, what they cannot or what they want, unfortunately I can only tame them in this form to which I was punished for all eternity,” said Lucifer with his face that looked like crying, although a king cannot give himself that luxury and less the king of hell.

-Don't despair, we can find a way, my grandfather used to say that there is no evil that lasts a hundred years, nor a body that can resist it, that is to say that there is no eternal punishment, nothing lasts forever.

-Luisa, I wish there was a little ray of hope here, it's true The Creator put me here with some functions, filling the void of that ice palette, I can't change until I get a replacement and until I get the Creator's forgiveness or what seems easier, to to The Layers, it seems a cruel t™****e that in my chambers I can see that world where I can save myself and I can't pass, even if I get the keys, I'll burn just breathing that air,

don Lucifer, I can train to become stronger, so I can heal him, now please take me back to my home as you promised. I'm afraid Luisa, I promised you that on earth, and an oath is no good in a strange land, besides, we're not finished.