"Mm." He hums in answer, but her nudge has reminded him how little she really knows about his family beyond the biblical stories. He's still reluctant to explain everything. It's a very long and very complicated history, but he can give her some context.
"He tried to kill me, the last time we met. He an Michael were going to go for the final showdown...jump start an apocalypse, destroy the Earth..." For a while he thought maybe he should let them. He'd gotten so tired of the fighting and the mess and living. It felt like an inevitable conclusion. "The usual."
But he didn't want to see either of them dead, and he didn't want to see the Earth burn away in the crossfire between them. His only choice was to see that they got locked in the Cage. "I couldn't kill my brothers. So I gave out the info that'd get 'em both locked away in hell for good."
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"He tried to kill me, the last time we met. He an Michael were going to go for the final showdown...jump start an apocalypse, destroy the Earth..." For a while he thought maybe he should let them. He'd gotten so tired of the fighting and the mess and living. It felt like an inevitable conclusion. "The usual."
But he didn't want to see either of them dead, and he didn't want to see the Earth burn away in the crossfire between them. His only choice was to see that they got locked in the Cage. "I couldn't kill my brothers. So I gave out the info that'd get 'em both locked away in hell for good."