[ That absolutely sounds like something he would do. Actually, he was counting on it—the likelihood that Beelzebub would stay loyal to them was so infinitesimally small that he didn't even factor it into his calculations.
But for obvious reasons, he hadn't had the chance to gut him properly.
Which meant that one of them was lying, one of them was wrong, or that the situation was warped enough to allow for two conflicting truths. And for all of Belial's oddities, he doesn't doubt his true clarity of mind. Instead, he sets aside the various herbs and weeds to touch his neck idly, running a finger across his throat and wondering where the split went. ]
I was too busy being killed by Lucifer to have that opportunity.
[ Belial's ragged, unfamiliar clothes. A comment on his 'old' body. Disparate memories, a plan progressed to failure that he can't recall. A new world of indeterminate distance and time away. All signs point to him being behind, somehow. In which case, he's the one who ought to be asking, ]
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But for obvious reasons, he hadn't had the chance to gut him properly.
Which meant that one of them was lying, one of them was wrong, or that the situation was warped enough to allow for two conflicting truths. And for all of Belial's oddities, he doesn't doubt his true clarity of mind. Instead, he sets aside the various herbs and weeds to touch his neck idly, running a finger across his throat and wondering where the split went. ]
I was too busy being killed by Lucifer to have that opportunity.
[ Belial's ragged, unfamiliar clothes. A comment on his 'old' body. Disparate memories, a plan progressed to failure that he can't recall. A new world of indeterminate distance and time away. All signs point to him being behind, somehow. In which case, he's the one who ought to be asking, ]
What do you make of this?