Decarabia

When Jehovah banished Judah and his one hundred twenty-three demons from the New Earth, most but not all of the exiled were sent to the next Eden.

Eighteen demons arrived in a different world—a darker world.

The jungle planet was a shadow of Eden—a prison and a tomb for the eighteen, populated by titanic beasts that fed on demons. Judah's first mission in the war against Jehovah would be to rescue his allies from torment.

When Judah arrived in the secluded world, only one of the punished had survived: the shapeshifter, Decarabia.

His nature had warped under the heavy sky. The violence of the wild had colored him. When pressed, he explained that the beasts of the forest had eaten half his tribe and that he, to remain strong, had consumed the rest.

Wanting Jehovah dead, Decarabia renewed his pledge to Judah, but he warned that his thoughts were volatile. He knew that the power Judah offered would change him and that he would change it. The deal was made, but Decarabia insisted that if the slightest hint of betrayal should cross his mind, Judah must cut off his head and dispose of it in the heart of a star.