"I don't see what hypothetical lost angels has to do with my family," he says, because the topic of fallen angels is not a good one for him right now. Not when the Earth is strewn with the corpses of his brothers and sisters. Not when there are places that you can barely walk for all the ashy, bare-bones wing silhouettes burned into the ground.

"Besides, how many people even believe that there are angels watching over them? Isn't that just a story you tell to children, to make them feel safe in their beds at night?"

Angels, apparently, can't look after themselves, nevertheless someone else.

"Maybe you should try reading a little less John Dee."