Addison put Amara Jane to bed and went downstairs. She removed the book of enchantments off the shelf and held it in her hand.
I will uncover your secrets, all of them, the ones you’ve hidden from me.
Soon enough.
She set it on the floor next to her and picked her cell phone out of her pocket.
Let’s forget the old-fashioned way for now and bring necromancy into the current century, shall we?
She pulled up the internet on her phone and typed in the name Samael. She scrolled down the page. The articles she found were conflicting.
Some described him as good.
Others said he was evil.
Others still said he was a combination platter of the two.
Which is it then, Samael?
Are you good, are you evil?
Or are you both?
Samael was described as an archangel, an angel of the highest rank. Another article said he was the angel of darkness, one who brought about destruction, even though he had once been the chief of the warrior angels, the servants of the Lord.
Somewhere along the line, it appeared Samael may have been banished from the Lord’s good graces. And though his kick out of heaven didn’t mean he was altogether bad, it did lead to a fair amount of tomfoolery when he seduced Eve and impregnated her with Cain.
And here I was thinking Cain’s conception was Adam’s doing.
She was more confused about the truth of Samael’s identity now than before.
And who had chosen her brother’s name?
Her mother or Samael?
A secondary search of the name Corbin didn’t suggest his name was anything of significance. It seemed to have neither angelic nor demonic influences. It was Anglo-Norman and was the average, run-of-the-mill name, with one exception.
The name Corbin signified a man with polished, dark hair and a brusque tone of voice, one who was also sometimes called a raven.