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I don't think my punishment was the Fall.
I think God put me in that garden, and you on the Eastern wall, knowing you were everything I'd ever want and everything I could never have.
My punishment was never to be a demon; the Serpent of Eden; the Fallen.
God cursed me to spend millennia walking the Earth, desperately and maddeningly in love with you, knowing that I could never have you.
The Ineffable Plan became my Ineffable Punishment; for a crime I didn't realise I'd committed until it was too late.
It's always too late, isn't it?