Re: Interlude - When Harry met Sally
Harbonah howls in rage. + SILENCE! +
The Archon shrinks, pulling tighter about Salamiel, and blazing brighter, + DO YOU BELIEVE YOU WOULD STILL LIVE, IF WE SUSPECTED THAT YOU WERE PART OF SOME SCHEME, INVOLVING ISRAFIL AND THE NEPHELIM? IF WE SUSPECTED THAT YOU WERE EVEN AWARE OF SUCH A SCHEME? +
+ ISRAFIL WAS DESTROYED AT CHARYK, BY TWO HUMANS SERVING THE DESPISED ONE, AND WAS BROUGHT BEFORE US IMMEDIATELY AFTER RENEWAL. IT WAS MOST COOPERATIVE. ALMOST KEEN TO TALK. EVENTUALLY. +
Pulling away now, and moving to the far side of the chamber, Harbonah is silent for a short while.
+ WE ARE CONVINCED THAT NO SUCH SCHEME EXISTED. ISRAFIL HAD NO KNOWLEDGE THAT SO MANY OF THE RECRUITS WERE OF THE NEPHELIM. IT SEEMS THAT, AS THE CURRENT CONFLICT SHOWS, THERE ARE FAR MORE NEPHELIM, AND NEPHELIM SYMPATHISERS, AMONG US THAN WAS HITHERTO SUSPECTED. +
+ THEY HAVE KEPT THEIR NUMBERS A WELL-GUARDED SECRET. WE HAD THOUGH THAT, WITH METATRON FINALLY GONE, THE OTHERS WOULD FALL. IT SEEMS THAT WE MAY HAVE BEEN... SOMEWHAT HASTY... IN MAKING THAT ASSESSMENT. +