A gentle breeze blew, swaying the leafy branches overhanging the pathway to and fro. The creature slithered down the side of the tree. He had seen his beautiful friend stroll nearby singing in her melodious voice. He quickly hurried in her direction. Time was of the essence. He needed his period of isolated conversation with the woman before the Overlord came around for his daily walks with her husband. The reptile's presence in the garden would alert the King's guards, and the imposing winged warriors would quickly alert their Master of his whereabouts, and the whole scheme could become unravelled!
"Luscious princess!", she heard him call out, she turned sideways in obvious pleasure. She always wondered what he saw in her body. Adam never seemed to complement her as much as Dariel did. Maybe his type was just more sensitive of her qualities than a man ever could be.
"I was roused from sleep with your wonderful voice", the serpent said. "I was tired but took a quick bite of the Fruit of Nourishment, and I immediately became strong" he added.
"Is that another name for it?", Eve asked. "I thought you called it the Fruit of Beauty yesterday, or does it go by so many names?". She remembered Adam had called it the Fruit of Knowledge. How could one fruit have so many qualities she wondered. And apparently that was the one fruit the Master had ordered them not to touch in the entire garden.
"If only you knew the value of the fruit, my princess. I could never survive without it! It strengthens my sight and hearing, it cools my skin with its healing sap, quenches my thirst with its sweet juice, lulls me to sleep in its intoxicating medicine, so many qualities my princess", his voice was husky as his eyes caressed her effeminate protrusions in undisguised lust.
She was oblivious to all the implications of the attention being lavished on her by the serpent as her mind wondered to her first marital disagreement with her husband the previous day.
They were in each other's arms and Adam was enthralled in passion. She had other issues to broach though, so while his hands wondered, she decided to plunge in right away and ask. "Why did the Master ask us not to taste from the big tree?"
Adam slowed down his perusals. He was suspicious as to where this was leading. "What tree are you referring to? I hope you aren't talking about the tree of knowledge?"
"But every other creature has tasted from it too, why can't we?" Eve replied him.
The grass they lay on suddenly seemed prickly to him and he stood up to his feet. "How did you know that, woman? None of them can speak in words we understand. Who have you been speaking with?"
Eve shifted uncomfortably in her seating position. "That is exactly what I'm trying to tell you. The fruit bestows powerful abilities on whoever eats it! It even gives the ability to speak in our words to some creatures" her eyes had grown brighter. Perhaps this wouldn't be so difficult after all.
"I met a creature who became able to speak and understand our words just after tasting the fruit! He can even alter his form into that of a man like you, except he has a tail"
She added. "And he says it is the fruit that gave him all that power!"
Adam was furious. Why did it seem the Master had made his wife smarter than he was? He was the one who'd been placed in charge, yet it seemed his wife knew more about the garden than he did. He had named every creature according to what he felt was their ability. And the Master had never objected to any name. He had been ordered to care for it, and yet creatures were eating from a tree even he wasn't allowed to taste! "I will ask the Master about it" he eventually said "He has never held back any answer to my questions".
Eve was terrified. She had been sworn to secrecy by the serpent. He had told her they would both be imprisoned if the Master discovered one creature had become as powerful as he had, after constantly eating the fruit. She had promised to ensure Adam never asked God about the powerful fruit lest all be exposed.
"Adam you can't do that". She quickly replied him
"Why not?" He asked
"At least let's discover its powers for ourselves first. Even if we don't eat from it like we've been ordered not to, we can still study what it does" she was grasping at straws
"Why not simply ask He who created it?" Adam wondered about the sudden desperation to keep the incident away from God. What had his wife been up to these past days, while he learned gardening techniques with tools he had been taught to make?
"We don't want to annoy Him do we? Let's take our time before bringing such an issue to the Master; Let's look for a way to please Him before risking his ire".
That sounded like a better excuse to her.
Adam agreed.
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