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‘I kneas a lie,’ says Cyclone

‘Thank you, Archangel,’ says a Watcher with a tuft of spotted feathers on his wing ‘Thank you for sparing them’

‘My orders were to kill the nephilim monsters,’ says Raffe ‘Gabriel’s words exactly I found the nephili about it if none of the time, didn’t you?’ I ask

Raffe nods ‘If I went back too early to report on my mission, Gabriel could have clarified his order to just kill the nephili until the nephilim blood thinned, until no one could identify one’

Raffe shrugs ‘Or until one of them turned monstrous Preferably two Then I could have come back and said that I killed the nephilim monsters as ordered’

‘But that didn’t happen,’ I say

He shakes his head

The Watchers look like they need a moment Some of them find a rock to sit on, while others just look away or close their eyes for a el who hter of Man would fall?’ asks one of the Watchers

‘Maybe he didn’t want to taint the angelic bloodline with our huels think of us as ani have we been here?’ asks Therrandchildren?’

‘Fro since you fell,’ says Raffe ‘But we’re from a different time In our world, your fall is ancient history’

The Watchers exchange looks with each other

‘You have to get us out of here,’ says the Watcher with the spotted tuft ‘Please, Coment Day will come’ His voice cracks at the end

There’s desperation on their faces

‘It’s one thing to die in battle,’ says Beliel, ‘but to die in the Pit, or worse – to live eternally in the Pit’ He shakes his head ‘It’s inco’

‘Uriel says that Gabriel went insane,’ says Raffe ‘That he hasn’t actually spoken to God in eons Maybe never’

Most of the Watchers stare at hih, nod as if they had been suspecting this for some time

‘I have no idea if it’s true,’ says Raffe ‘Nobody does, except for Gabriel But it does see myself that it was aabout?’ He glances at me

‘In the end, it doesn’t really matter,’ says Hawk ‘Our loyalties are to you, whatever happens’

‘Do you have a plan, Commander?’ asks Thermo

‘Sure,’ says Raffe ‘The plan is to bust you out, then you’ll help es I’m not sure if it’s awe or disbelief Maybe a little of both