Monsters of the Deep

They both fell from heaven, so he shouldn’t have been so surprised when she cheated on him. “How can you lust for others when I am Lust?”

“Are you sure you aren’t Envy?” But she still apologized, and he forgave her once he realized she was pregnant. The prospect of raising a child, even if it wasn’t his own, excited him.

The baby she delivered resembled a rebel angel, but with gills and without wings. “He can’t survive here,” they realized, crestfallen. So they released the writhing child into the sea, where it could breathe and fly on its own.