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Tunde Leye 19<br />
“Very well, thank you,” Eve replied. “And you?”<br />
“What can a serpent do except be very well? Anyway, the buzz in the<br />
garden was that you were going to Heaven today. What happened? Were<br />
you refused entry?”<br />
“Yes. God asked us to hold on; he said the time for our trip to Heaven<br />
was not now. We will go to Heaven in due time.”<br />
Lucifer moved forward, encouraging her to follow him. “Just as I<br />
expected,” he said. “He won't let you into heaven. Anyway, I know<br />
another way in, since I've been there before. But I guess you can wait for<br />
his time as He instructed.”<br />
Eve pulled his tail. “I'll just wait. It can't be that long.”<br />
“You're naïve. It's because you will become fully like Him when you get<br />
to heaven… that's why He doesn't want you to go to heaven. I'm sure He<br />
also told you not to eat from this tree.”<br />
Eve looked up. They were in front of the Tree of the Knowledge of<br />
Good and Evil. It was a silver-coloured tree with plump, round, white<br />
fruits hanging on it. The earth around it was well tended and cleared of<br />
any undergrowth. Beside it was a twin tree, a white tree with silvercoloured<br />
fruits, almost identical to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good<br />
and Evil. It was the Tree of Life. Eve quickly stepped back. They were not<br />
to eat of the fruit of the tree.<br />
Lucifer smirked. “See what I am saying. He told you that because you<br />
will become like Him when you eat it. Your eyes will become open,<br />
knowing good and evil by yourself. You won't need anyone to tell you<br />
right from wrong.”<br />
He went up the tree and came back down with a fruit. The fruit looked<br />
so good, so appealing. He gave it to her. “That's your key to being like the<br />
God you love so much, and going to heaven.”<br />
She hesitated briefly before she took the fruit and ate it. It tasted as<br />
good as it looked. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the taste for a few<br />
seconds. By the time she opened her eyes, it was as if her old eyes had<br />
been replaced with new ones. Everything looked different; things<br />
seemed to have taken on a harsher note. She looked around and saw the<br />
serpent holding up the fruit to her. “I feel different,” she said dryly.
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