finally overran them there, my heir and your numbers shall spill out of the banishment zone in a place where the Neterus will not want to fight, will hesitate to take a stand ... the very location itself will inspire fear. But I will have at my disposal human troops on both sides, as well as any of their allies, to
manipulate as always in any human confrontation."
She chuckled as gaping mouths and contorted faces and bodies pressed against the rubbery surface. Seeking hands tried to push through to touch her and she opened her arms and leaned against the moaning, yearning forms. "Soon, there will be nothing to separate us," she promised, then was gone.
* * *
Lorelei fell out of bed as she awoke with a start to see Lilith reclining next to her with a wicked smile. She immediately went down on her knees and cowered.
"I hope I have not displeased you, Your Majesty. I did find him, Yolando went to a coven in Tijuana, and they're so territorial there, that they blocked my sightline to him." Lilith sat up with a bored sigh and stood. "Yes. We sensed him. A new councilman indulging his topside passions. I should have known." She smiled thinking of Fallen Nuit and Sebastian's jealousy that only Yonnie seemed to be able to move about in the earth gray zone that they dearly missed, unafraid of Neteru reprisal. It quietly gave her pause, but she'd never reveal her hesitation to Lorelei.
"I was able to pick up a detail he left floating in the breeze when he made contact with the seduced Guardian," Lorelei said quickly, trying to appease her ruling entity. "The Neteru Guardians are resource challenged and are going to try to host a worldwide concert. They want to call all their Guardian units to a summit, have a message for them in the last days, and may use our airwaves to broadcast simultaneous images. It was at the forefront of Yolando's mind before he sought to indulge himself across the border."
"Make it impossible for them to get a worthy venue!" Lilith railed. " Crush their attempt to get word out to their own kind and monitor anything they send via any form of airwave we own. I want their music crushed, their message lost, and only violent, foul, and lewd images from our realm to blot out whatever the Neterus have to communicate." She hissed. "I will tell Sebastian to invoke Rasputin for this!"
"We can block her access to all the best venues, sway the radio stations, television stations to not broadcast her event. We can even block her getting those best locations by tying up the process through haggling unfavorable terms... but it'll be more difficult to actually stop them from getting their call to Guardians out over the Internet," Lorelei said, bowing lower. "That's a potential leak."
"Monitor it!" Lilith screeched. "Put our best on it to en sure anything the Neteru team sends out gets virally at tacked, gets deleted, garbled, and does not reach its destination
... but I want to know who they are sending to, I want every Guardian cell found and destroyed. Rooted out."
"We'll have our best cyberterrorists on it, Your Majesty," Lorelei promised and then clamped her lips shut and cringed.
After a moment, Lilith calmed herself and swung her legs over the side of the bed. "You have done well. I have something for you."
Lorelei slowly looked up with gratitude in her eyes. "You'll finally make me one of the revered?"
Lilith rolled her eyes and scoffed. "No ... not yet." She flung a phony passport, travel documents, plane tickets, and an itinerary across the bed toward Lorelei. "You're going on a trip. Dress like it's a pilgrimage. It is, in a way," she said, laughing in a cackle.
"Jerusalem?" Lorelei whispered with a frown, confused and put off.
"Yes. This way you will have access to travel quickly to Masada when the time is right. The deep caverns and the desertlike mountains around the Dead Sea, also give us endless fallback positions, should we need them. Go to Jerusalem, hide until I call for you - then be ready to go to Masada and await my command."
Lorelei looked at Lilith, a question forming in her mind that she couldn't hold. "But why pick a place where there's so much ... history and energy for the three strongholds of human faith?" Lorelei's confused gaze searched Lilith's face for a moment before she ducked her head. "I only ask be