[Music recommendation: A Minor Benediction · Edmund Percival Montfort]
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There were certain rules that had to be followed to maintain the balance between the three realms that together formed one world.
The first was that every soul born in a particular realm would be reborn in that same realm, unless fate itself decreed otherwise for a greater purpose.
The second was that no royal was permitted to cross into the World of the Living without paying an extraordinarily heavy price… one that demanded the sacrifice of something most precious to them. In exceptional circumstances, however, they could be granted temporary passage by the Devil himself, though the Underworld would eventually pull them back once their allotted time was up.
Queen Lilith knew this all too well.
Even after her death, only Raizel, the reigning Devil, could grant her permission to cross into the World of the Living for the purpose revealed to her in a vision a few nights earlier.
