As the king and the Tiamat go to the house of Sinned, they find he is not at home, that he has left, while under restrictions, not to have. This, the Tiamat feels is cause for expulsion from Yort, and as he declares this so, Lucifer just looks at her strangely. The Commander being asked by the Tiamat, yet not knowing of his whereabouts, calls the King, who reprimands the Commander for not watching him properly, and is ordered to take a platoon of men to go find him and bring him back.

Mumbles the Tiamat in an unknowing language, that no one understands:

'It has come to the point I will either have to torture him to death to get the information, and hope his will does not have the power to cast me into the pit, or face Lucifer, and He cast me into the pit for failing twice.'

She knows if she tries to kill him, he will, most likely will, try to in all means and ways, cast her (if he can into the pit), as he has said he would do (the abyss); or possibly there might be a third option, simply get out of the city fast, but then, she would be found sooner or later, if Lucifer really wanted to find her that is, he could.

(The Shinning One's have left: gone back to Egypt, and the Cmmander is leaving Yort, in search of Sinned.)

Sinned travels to the interior of Turkey [Asia Minor] finding an old man working on a large vessel, actually putting on the last touches of a huge and monstrous craft; polishing up the seams and insuring the boat is sea worthy; just as his friendly angel, Serr'el had told him he would; he asks the man in charge the question:

"When do you predict you will be done with this boat Sir?"

The man says: "Very soon (and smiles at Sinned)."

No more is said, or needs to be said for that matter, hence, Sinned travels back to his city-state, whereupon he meets the Commander along the way and they both enter the gates of Yort together. He takes him into custody, putting him in a cage, nine feet by nine feet; it would seem the old friendship is dwindling down, he hand the Commander once hand. As the Commander suggest, Sinned has abused his privilege and his friendship with him. Yet Sinned says nothing, which surprises the Commander, whom feels, he would protest, or surely try and make him feel bad about doing this, since they had been friends for many years, yet Sinned says nothing, not one word, he knows time is very short for the whole world, and even shorter for him.

As the Tiamat shows up at the cage with her demands, wanting to know the secret, the secret Satan feels Sinned has, She [meaning the Tiamat] is explaining, she has freed the city of Marduk, but must cage him like an ape until she finds the secret; she has no choice, she is almost pleading to him not to cast her into the pit, but falls short on the actual words and simply begs for the information; she even goes as far as telling him: he has no choice in the matter, just as she has none, that she cannot win, nor him, win in either situation, meaning, Sinned will cast [her if he can] her into the pit if she kills or tries to kill him, or Satan will for not finding out the information she needs. She stands by the cage waiting for the information.

"When is the world to come to an end?" She asks, not really knowing if that is the question, but feeling that is the information Satan wants, what else could it be; Satan wants to rule, and rule for how long is the big question. Plus, he can not rule an uninhabited world. At this point, she is more like pleading, her case twice with Sinned to cooperate, or give her a way out; almost as if he owed her a favor.

Sinned, knowing time is short for the Tiamat, as well as mankind explains:

"There is a huge boat being built, when it starts to rain it will be too late, it will not stop raining, --that is, too late for everyone, for the foundations of the world will crack and swallow up everything and everybody, that is the secret, which is really no secret, if the Adversary had simply looked at the boat, he could have figured that out, and you can tell it to your friend, Lucifer."

Confused, yet surprised he had given her the information, and gave at that moment; the answer she had asked almost struck her blind. Thought she, "I simply should have asked sooner." She was delighted, still felt in a fog of dismay. Sinned hoping the information might get out to the people and they could plead for forgiveness, was his real motive.

Said the Tiamat mystified: "What should I do, if the world is coming to an end?" Looking at Sinned, yet he didn't answer [a long pause takes place].

"Sinned, Sinned, answer me,PLEASE!" No answer, again a long pause, she looks deep at him resting so peacefully against the back of the cage, touches him: Sinned had fallen to sleep and with her touch, he stops breathing, and does not wake up. A panic seems to go up and down her body, chills, for now what does she do, and then out of the heavens it starts to rain, and rain and rain.

When Lucifer hears of this news, he stomps his feet, looking at the Tiamat, says, "It is all yours..." And with his angelic abilities ascends beyond the clouds of the pouring rain. And it continues to rain, and rain and rain: for 40-days and nights. The Tiamat now jumps out of the body of the Ram, as it has been destroyed, ruptured, pulled apart, all its organs are rotting, and he also sinks in the mud and the rain, and descends to the underworld [the nine-hells].

By the time it stops raining, the world is different. As Lucifer, the Adversary, or otherwise known as Satan, looks down from the clouds, he sees the mud of the city Yort, and it is thirty feet deep. "It will take," he mumbles "it will take four-hundred years to settle and dry up again," that is, before it is worthy of his domination, he means; yet he is angry, like a pacing lion--throughout the sky he walks and talks to hisself:he is like a hungry lion, like a dragon with fire coming out of his mouth, thus, he spits insanity and evil all about, for it was almost, almost, his empire, but possibly he will have better luck next time (so he is thinking, and adds to his thoughts, his days that he thought were over, had just gained a few more); he yells through the clouds, "I'll return." The Tiamat in her--now, ghostly form, looks from a distance, and is gone, with no particular destination at the moment. The Commander who wanted to play it safe all his life and not choose between this or that god ended up with no god, has now lost his life buried in the mud and the quiet winds of time (he is dead, and the dead do not worry about being dead, for they are). Sinned, he is dead (and the dead do not worry about being dead anymore: especially if they are in God's hands) and remembers his betrayal by the Cammander,after all those years of friendship, now he has been weighed and balanced, like hisself; and as it continues to rain, death had no sting for Sinned, he had simply said to the Lord:

"I'm ready, I'm OK with it, it does't matter, I don't want to live like this anyway." (He went to paradise, awaiting the Messiah.)

((And the shock waves from the asteroid hitting Mercury, shook the solar system, and there came a shockwave throughout the crust of the earth, and it wobbled on it axis, creating a fracture within the heavens, and it rained and rained killing humanity; ans so it has been written.))

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