[He's having dark thoughts. Dark, treasonous thoughts, wondering if this is the Ineffable Plan, or if they've finally gotten Her attention enough to step in and punish them more directly. If they outwitted their respective sides to buy themselves some breathing room, maybe She didn't like it.
It tracks with some of what that woman said about a different Eden, maybe. He's absorbed enough that for a little while he forgets to breathe.
Just us now.
It has always been just them for a long time. He probably would have seen it earlier had he not been so afraid. What is he now? Maybe that's why he can't leave, why neither of them can, they aren't an angel or a demon anymore.
Maybe that's all hogwash and this is unrelated to anything from Earth. He draws his delayed breath and lets it out.]
I know.
[He settles his fingers at his nape and gently rubs. It might be kinder to disambiguate exactly what part of all of that he's claiming to know. He doesn't want to try while he's this angry and confused. Resigned. He'd only muddle it worse like this.]
no subject
It tracks with some of what that woman said about a different Eden, maybe. He's absorbed enough that for a little while he forgets to breathe.
Just us now.
It has always been just them for a long time. He probably would have seen it earlier had he not been so afraid. What is he now? Maybe that's why he can't leave, why neither of them can, they aren't an angel or a demon anymore.
Maybe that's all hogwash and this is unrelated to anything from Earth. He draws his delayed breath and lets it out.]
I know.
[He settles his fingers at his nape and gently rubs. It might be kinder to disambiguate exactly what part of all of that he's claiming to know. He doesn't want to try while he's this angry and confused. Resigned. He'd only muddle it worse like this.]