Adam was worried. This fruit issue was getting out of hand. His family life had taken a turn for the worse. Eve no longer permitted him the freedom to physically appreciate her beauty. He was often left pensive and emotionally disturbed. Even his evening walks with the Creator were betraying his matrimonial instability.
He didn't know whether to confide his problems with God. It might make him look weak and unable to handle his own affairs.
God was in charge of so much! Yet he never seemed overwhelmed with responsibility. Besides he had been clear in his order not to eat from the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. If he mentioned the crisis in his home then it would betray a possibility of disobedience.
How could he earn the respect of his wife? Was it by agreeing to go against the Creator's wishes? What if they really died? Adam didn't want to die. But her snake friend claimed to have eaten the fruit and hadn't died.
And what about the positive part of the proposal. They would become as wise as God! Equal to him. Able to command those mighty winged creatures. Able to control the earth!
If such power to challenge the authority of God resided in a mere fruit, why would God leave such a tree within their grasp? It just didn't add up to Adam.
But he decided it better to be on his wife's good side with a caveat.
The next day, he gave her his condition for joining her in fulfilling her desire. She had to consent to his leadership initiative henceforth. There was to be no more undermining of his authority. She agreed.
Eve, with dariel beside her, plucked one low hanging fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and bit it, chewing slowly.
"I don't feel different " she said to dariel, suspicion clouding her voice.
" Adam must have some first or it won't work ". At this point Eve paused and asked dariel a question.
" I thought you had eaten it already, why doesn't it work the same way with me? " dariel mumbled something about it having to do with completion. The fruit couldn't work on only half of the couple until they both ate it.
Eve handed over the half eaten fruit to Adam. He took it and placed it in his mouth. He noticed at that split second before he began biting and chewing that they were not alone in the thicket. several other human looking creatures with tails just like dariel had emerged all around them.
They were bowing with arms outstretched and knees on the ground, faces brightly genuflecting to the earth.
And they suddenly disappeared.
"where is dariel? " Eve asked. It was then he looked round, still chewing, and realized the serpent was gone.
He looked at Eve and felt shame. Why did she have to carry those bosoms openly. Instinctively, her hands went up to cover her breasts from his scrutiny. Her eyes were on his manhood too, and he felt himself turning away from her.
"Let's cover ourselves", Eve suggested.
He agreed
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