The Repentant Demon Trilogy Book 1: The Demon Calumnius Read Online Free Page A

nearly impossible for a being without a body.  While demons, like angels, have mustered the power to produce structures of flesh and blood for short periods of time, it required great strength and much concentration.  Angels have been known to have appeared as physical beings, not only in Bible stories and in legends of all cultures, but even in modern times.  The tales are too numerous for any serious person to completely discount.  To perform a sexual union, the strategy is even more ambitious.  According to the Sacred Scripture, the Sons of God found the daughters of men fair—but those passages were something Calumnius could not take seriously.  The demons he knew of who had attempted this feat exhausted all their resources for eons of time.
    Mastering the creation of molecules from the finest antimatter is difficult enough.  Constructing a male genital organ—something demons do not require for any reason—is arduous work.  To then produce cells and DNA capable of reproduction, ones that can carry traits of demons for which there is no human counterpart—the task is beyond the capacity of even the most powerful of creatures as themselves.  No such viable life-forms have thus far emerged from the uterus of any human woman—to his knowledge.  If such a thing had ever happened, the news would be astounding.  It was not something that interested Calumnius in the least, though he amused himself with such thoughts as he continued to watch his victim in her shower.
    Abigail Rayetta Fitzgerald interested Calumnius, but not in a sexual sense.  He noticed the things on her desk, her choices in music and art, and a small sampling of antiquities, which dotted the shelves and tabletops in her living area.  Most of these items were small, less precious items from the Middle East.  A fossil or two, a shell, and an amulet.  The most valuable piece of all seemed to be the Egyptian amulet of Bes, the dwarf god, also known as Pataikoi.  These were worn to pray to the god for fertility and were commonplace during the period of 1000 – 700 B.C.  This one he saw displayed on a bookshelf would be worth several thousand dollars in the current market, a price that seemed beyond the budget of a woman who wore second-hand clothes and refused to pay for cable TV.  This possession and its prominence in the room spoke volumes about her.
    Bes was used to produce magical spells in the pagan world.  Idolatry proliferated among the heathen, illiterate cultures.  Now intellectuals considering themselves of superior mental abilities labored to understand such portals to hell.  They tended to regard primitive people who made potions with frog eyeballs and foretold the future in pig guts as admirable teachers with ancient secrets while those who chose to pray the rosary were considered narrow minded and of lower intelligence.  If they had any inkling of awareness about the fear such prayers evoked in demons, they would not be so smug.
    Abigail had assisted in excavations in Israel, Jordan, and Turkey—as her budget and the regulations of the variously changing regimes would permit.  Although it hadn't been her discovery, she had been privileged to excavate at the diggings in the Valley of Siddim, just south of the Dead Sea and the site at Numeria, which are believed to be the ruins of the legendary Sodom and Gomorrah.  Contrary to common knowledge, there were more than just the two cities that were destroyed by fire.  Archaeologists have actually located the northeast gate with two flanking towers through which Lot traveled with his family to escape the destruction as forewarned by the angels of God.  Angels—angels that were nearly ravished by the sexual appetites of the very reprobates whom God sought to destroy.  Their behaviors, in their extreme perversity, justified God's wrath because they actually threatened the human DNA pool.  These people actually mated with animals, producing grotesque offspring.  God could not