Daughters of Eve

Rei II

"WHAT!?" I hear someone shout.

The voice sounds like . . . my sister?

My eyes snap open, expecting the worst and . . . somehow I find that I'm not half wrong. Oh, while I am VERY glad to say that I did not get assimilated into that . . . BITCH over there. By the look of things I bet YOU that she did NOT expect that that flaccid blob of flesh we all impacted against together to take it's cues on what form to take to be ME! Me and not the reverse (as what SHOULD happen when an Angel should touch the Lilith body and any NORMAL, "lilium" unfortunate enough to be touching), even for only a brief period of time. Being a Champion would prevent such a permanent change, you know. I've grown rather fond of my wings, thanks.

But whatever the case. . . Whatever satisfaction I have on causing this . . . this female distress (and why in the HELL is she being so upset about having WINGS?), I still cannot say that even the brief encounter I had in the joining was . . . pleasant. But what I somehow know in the very core of my being (which I shall NEVER share with anyone but who I'll share mind and spirit with by CHOICE), I know that this session has very MUCH gutted any possibility of Instrumentality via this Angel before me!

See, in addition to her having GAINED wings it also . . . should have robbed her of her Angelic powers. She's human as much as I am, now a child of EVE! As such, no need to kill her for humanity is safe.

I mean, being that from what I know Third Impact and Instrumentality go hand and glove. Letting her live in the ashes of her own demented plans is good enough for ME.

"You've ruined everything," she hisses, glaring at me after she catches sight of me. She knows in the same way I do what's happened, even IF we don't fully understand it. "Mankind is now DOOMED, you know. Correct? You DO know that?"

"Instrumentality isn't an option," I snap back. "It just creates a stagnant state with NO progression. All souls pushed together and no privacy. Not being able to chose WHO one shares one's mind and soul with. Disgusting!"

. . .

In reviewing at what I just said and have DONE up to this point, I fear that I am letting private fears and loathing of what I had been created to bring about is coloring this encounter in a most NEGATIVE fashion. What was it that Elrondir said about HIM and his analog? One should not just blindly assume that if one's analog is a vile person that ALL of the versions you should meet will be vile. The fact that this Lilith seems to have been set upon Instrumentality does not mean she's the villian of this play. Never did go into details about how things should have gone for myself AFTER that drastic . . . change when I'd been saved from that Angel attack by my family. Sure, Elrondir had mentioned that Third Impact had happened but never did I ask (went out of my way in finding out) just how it came to pass in the anime.

Maybe the Lilith in the story and this one ARE NOT evil people, but victim's of circumstance? I know a few lines to that song, let me tell you! Not like I asked to be the key tool to a madman's plans to bring about the destruction of humankind as we know it, let me tell you!

Still, it is difficult for me. She then looks over at me and our glares lock. No love lost between US, I fear.

"Look, there is another way to save humanity from fading," I manage, trying to reign in my temper (not always an easy task, I find after coming into my own, emotionally after so long being stunted). "Besides, where did you GET the idea that I and my sister did that on purpose to you?"

. . .

Wait. Where IS my sister right now? Is she hurt?

. . .

If she should be I'll not forgive myself . . .

"Ohhh," a soft voice groans behind me, causing me to break this staring contest and see. . . .

Oh good GOD, what is it with me to have even ever FORGET my sister? She'd been hurtling along with me there! The fact that there is an Entry Plug to an Eva unit right besides her hardly registers.

What really is of concern is the figure of a man who I recognize instantly from the briefing materials that Elrondir provided: the G-man!

Where in the blazes did HE pop in from? Where was he, hiding behind that Entry Plug (what in the world is THAT doing here in this version of Terminal Dogma, the holding place for the NOW reanimated Lilith)?

!

And while I'm asking myself questions, just HOW did my unwilling immersion within that blob of white flesh (i.e. the body of Lilith who'd been metamorphed into a younger twin of ME. You know, the OTHER winged girl I've been . . . chatting with) effect her this way?

Why should SHE, who'd been transformed wholly into a human being of the EVE descent (and not a "lilium" (aka descendant of Lilith), have been transformed as well? I mean, what happened to Lilith from the memories and knowledge I gained from "my" Yui Ikari is that . . . what has happened should not have happened.

Unless . . . the same kind of axiom wash that had transformed Rei III into an Eve descended human should have struck again and . . . transformed her BACK into a Lilith descended human?

Oh, she should be BACK to Even human again . . . but like ME, with an very unusual genetic expression only found on magical worlds like Terra Prime.

. . .

Oh great. Never did quiet understand fully this axiom wash business, even IF I had a good teacher in Inquirer (THE expert in such matters, considering her time as a Torg DM, where the term came from that game). It was just . . . something I couldn't get my head to fully wrap around. It involves a. . . math that is post graduate college degree level material. I'm GETTING there, but not fully there yet.

Yes, if I'd concentrated fully on the subject instead of learning so many things from my family (so many wonderful things to learn from them, not the least being magic) I should have obtained a better understanding as to why my sister now is with red angelic wings like myself . . . as well as being now red headed (a shade darker than another redhead from my time as an Eva pilot I shan't mention right now).

That's hardly a concern right now. She's in need of assistance . . . which the G-man is giving right now?

"Are you. . . okay?" he asks in his gravelly voice, actual concern in his ashen face as he helps my sister to her feet.

1. "Who are you?" Rei III asks blankly, only to have her eyes go wide as she notices her wings.

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