Her condolences about his wings are also, surprisingly, welcome. Rashad offers her a timid smile. "I lost them when I came to live in the mortal world," he admits. She's learning all kinds of secrets. Enjoy, little girl!

"That is the one," agrees Rashad. "Can he not? I was under the impression they were very...close." Not that he understands why. Certain aspects of their relationship have never even occurred to Rashad as a remote possibility, given his assumptions about the nature of angels of other pantheons.