- EA: Any show dealing with theological topics risks offending its own audience if there is a perception of disrespect toward the source material. ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ navigates this minefield by making God something of an absent father. Even for the angels, the existence of the “Old One” is a matter of personal belief rather than a bare fact. Yet the talents and abilities (Mercies) manifested by the angels bear explaining, so the show’s lore includes an intermediate level of lesser deities, ranging from the beneficent to the malign, along with others that operate wholly outside morality. These are the Elohim, and in contrast to the aloof nature of the Creator they are quite involved in human and angel affairs, frequently making use of mechanical avatars called ophanim. Ayat uses Zuriel, a faceless white robot. Avyah appears as a mobile tree. Imran is seen as an orrery with wheels and eyes. Azul appears as the red dragon Moloch. Davar comes as a 22nd Century android cast in the form of an ageless girl named Hope.
- EB: A show depicting angels can also offend believers who consider certain of them as part of their sacred tradition. Christians and Jews alike accept the archangels Michael and Gabriel. The book of Tobit in Roman Catholic scripture has Raphael. The Russian Orthodox tradition venerates Uriel. ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ sidesteps this problem by making all the winged angels female. They have a VX allosome, rather than the XX chromosome pair in human females, or XY in human males. Nevertheless, they are not a separate species from humankind in biological terms. Only the VY combination (one-fourth of conceptions) fail to come to full term, since the V itself is a modified Y. In this way ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ can have its angel food cake and eat it, too. Mikaela may be understood to be identical to Michael, or a wholly different being. The same goes for Gabriela as Gabriel. Father Kendall objected, of course, but angels as depicted in the fine arts were never exactly Mike Ditka level paragons of hyper-masculinity to begin with.
- EC: Sar Lailah, daughter of Kar Melchizedek and his wife Ma’or, became queen of Shalem in exile when her father was slain during the siege of that great city; she fled with Uriel and her son Yishak. Lailah was born to one of the nephiloth, the kindred of the Made, long thought barren, after Avyah amended the broken works of Azul. When Davar came into existence, the first halo became possible. At will Lailah could wrap herself in a bubble wherein her weight was nought, and her black feathered wings (for the len had heretofore borne them merely as tokens of their being) became fit for true flight. And there was war in Kemen: Lailah fought against the red dragon, and Moloch prevailed not. The great mechanized dragon-avatar of Azul was cast down, and with Shahar Haruach Sar Lailah struck off the head of the fire drake. Mother of all the Begotten, tall beyond most men, Lailah is ever clad as a warrior in red leather and much brass. She commands the military choir of the Sarim, the House of Haivri, to this day.
- ED: The body of Ariel Haivri-Lange, daughter of Mikaela and Naamah, produces an overabundance of designer molecules. In the case of Ariel these are airborne pheromones that strongly affect animals. In her presence beasts eagerly comply with her vocalizations and gestures. Ariel returns their affection in equal measure. Some talebearers among the Root of Jesse Fellowship (Stiffnecks) say that Ariel’s husband, Apostle Joshua Lange, likewise fell under this influence. In the fourteenth century Ariel became known among the Lakota as Ptaysanwee, or Buffalo Calf Woman, after she restored the bison herds following a sharp die-off. In celebration Ariel introduced the seven ceremonies of the sacred pipe, which persist unto this day among the Kuwapi. Her wings bear brown feathers, and when folded they are concealed beneath a fringed and bleached buckskin jacket. Ariel was deeply involved in the Academy operation bringing the Stiffnecks and Kuwapi together at the Dole impact complex, future site of Havilah, in 1865.
- EE: Dr. Miriam Wahkan (Lakota: Plenty Practice) is the angel named Raphael. As Mary Magdalene in the first century CE she unobtrusively performed the healings attributed in the gospels to Yeshua ben Yosef. Today she is the sole doctor in the town of Havilah, which is large enough to require at least two or three physicians. As part of her V chromosome inheritance, her body produces molecular machines that facilitate rapid self-repair, but Dr. Wahkan produces them in abundance, permitting her to share them with the afflicted by a mere touch. Her use of the term “veterinary primer” is typical of her droll wit, though indeed she occasionally works alongside her sister Ariel tending animals as well as humans. Raphael may heal, but she cannot confer immortality even to angels, only the nephiloth remain deathless. Miriam is frequently seen at the Migdalel College hospital wearing a white lab coat over her cloak of blood-red feathers. When complimented on this ensemble she often replies, “Thanks! It has pockets!”
- EF: Ardarel the Fire Angel has orange wings. On Academy Pranks she goes by the code-name Pyro. She can invoke an Einstein-Rosen bridge back to the living star Davar fat enough to pass fermions, as in plasma, not merely bosons like Uriel. A big concertina wire fence in the way? She’ll make a ring in the fence melt like butter but leave the center cool enough to push with your bare hands. She stood at the Gate of Eden with a fiery sword. The โflame that does not consumeโ was classic Ardarel stagecraft. She accompanied the Hebrews as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, discomfiting the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. That thing with Elijah and the soaking wet altar on Mt. Carmel? That was her. Ardarel doesn’t mess around. Think a tokamak got religion. When DECON showed up to bust a “Haivri Crime Family” commission meeting their agency cars ended up being towed back to the Bureau carpool as smoking black hulks.
- EG: Gabriela Haivri, younger daughter of Uriel and Lailah, was the second of the Begotten and the first among the Gavrielim. Unto her was given the Mercy of directed motion, whereby she might turn aside the paths of iron in flight, so that arrows and bullets swerved from their courses, or else strike true those missiles she desired should not miss. In later ages she was accounted as one who held the highest office in the public affairs of House Haivri, and her influence was known even in dealings with the Roman Curia and the Israeli Knesset. Yet she was also set to a quieter labor, for she gave counsel in matters of marriage and household peace, and was sought by women who found no child within them, among whom were Sarah and Elizabeth, and Maryam of Nazareth, who had known no man. It is said also that she spoke with Yosef of Nazareth concerning these matters, wherein lay the designs of Ayat, and set his mind at ease regarding Maryam, daughter of Yoachim and Anna, lest he cast away his intent in haste.
- EH: The bolide that created Dole crater fractured the crust. Winter fog and geothermal warmth in Havilah dramatically reduces frost severity but with chronically high nighttime humidity and long periods of leaf wetness plants stay damp for hours after sunrise, sometimes all day. That is paradise for fungi and oomycetes, powdery mildew, downy mildew, rusts, and blights. Crops that thrive elsewhere fail mysteriously in Havilah. A garden bed ten yards from a fumarole might grow tomatoes like a fairy tale but five yards closer and nothing but sickly chard survives. The fog reduces total photosynthetically active radiation. Leafy greens tolerate this but fruiting plants sulk. Enter green-winged Risnuch, who can do for plants and crops what Raphael does for broken limbs and Ariel does for frightened horses. It takes a special breed of Stiffneck to remain in the timeless gray suspension of Havilah but without Risnuch quietly working her Mercies perpetual famine would make the Dole crater uninhabitable to all.
- EI: Nahimana is Lakota for Secret, and this is the sacred name of the blue-winged angel Rashiel, daughter of Cassiel and Jashen Shy Bear. Her nickname Tea Spiller arose after she revealed the name intended to be known only by herself and the shaman. Rashiel insists on being called Dory. She is a telepath and a clairvoyant who serves as the central clearing house for all mind-to-mind communication between the angels, a talent that extends instantly across space. She frequently abuses this Mercy with what she calls ancillary information, though others describe it as gossip. When this ability first emerged in her late adolescence she found it intrusive. She soon laid down the law: the channel was for emergencies only, and when the Voices disobeyed her she punished them by keeping them awake at night with voices of her own. Dory played acoustic bass at the Migdalel College Conservatoire and with the Havilah Harmonics, later picking up a pink Fender electric P-bass when the band was renamed Beermother in 1962.
- EJ: Ehawee Wicasa (Lakota: Laughing Rich Girl) possesses the VX allosome of the jen and has wings of purple feathers. Within House Haivri she is known as Bat Kol, Daughter of the Voice, a title theologians long framed as a divine yet abstract principle rather than an anthropomorphic being. Ehawee was granted the Mercy of a powerful voice, and serves as the chief annunciator (ha-Neviโim) among the angels. Ehawee was the star vocalist at Temple Derekh Meโhudeshet and with the Havilah Harmonics in the 1950s, though true fame arrived after the band recorded and toured as Beermother in the following decade. During concerts Ehawee required neither microphone nor amplification to make herself heard, even over Elroyโs Fender guitar, a thing audiences found uncanny. She moved freely about the stage without the encumbrance of a cable. Although Remiel (stealing hooks from hit songs yet to be recorded) created all the melodies and chord progressions played by Beermother, the bandโs lyrics originated entirely with Ehawee.
- EK: Remiel, gray-winged daughter of Ariel, sees her future as a vivid daydream continually collapsing like a house of cards with each action that renders the former vision counterfactual. The sequence of events in the new future then reassembles itself within her mind. It is almost impossible to harm Remiel, for she may simply absent herself from the place of danger. She calls this technique the Dance of Life. Yet in truth it is a terrible power. Remiel knew when her husband Elroy would betray her with Bat Kol. She knows when people she dearly loves will die, yet at times she can say nothing, because the warning itself leads to far worse outcomes. This Mercy makes Remiel the most formidable among the angels. Davar once told Remiel she alone in all the universe shares the Old Oneโs divine power of free will. Yet the burden of this thing was judged so terrible Davar required Remiel to submit willingly to her own murder to affirm she was willing to retain the power. Her death proved a temporary inconvenience.
- EL: White-winged Mikaela inherited a V chromosome from her mother Lailah and an X chromosome from Uriel, and was thus a jan, the second such to exist and the first of the Begotten. To Mikaela was given the Mercy of effortless travel. She could summon an Einstein-Rosen bridge linking herself to any point in Kemen, or from Kemen to any place on Earth. Long ago, Ayat learned that she, in union with her son Davar, could join not only distant places, but widely-spaced epochs as well. Ayat’s Elohim enemies possess no understanding of this thing, for their own star systems have no progression of history, only lifeless bodies circling in the dark. An account of Azul’s realm told from the end unto the beginning would differ in no way from the same account told in proper order, save only that it were viewed from beneath the plane of worlds rather than above. Ayat and Davar, then, alone among the Elohim, share the human sense of time. By this understanding they rightly position the endpoints of their space-time bridge.
- EM: Cassiel is called Wachipi (Dancing Star) by her husband Jashen Shybear. She is the daughter of Gabriela and Yishma’el. As the Scribe of God, Cassiel maintains the written record of the Shir ha-Zikaron, the living Song of Remembrance. The surface of these scrolls is but three molecules thick, consisting of two transparent layers with a third between them of unnatural whiteness. No ink, nor dust, nor blood may mark this layer, but only X-rays issuing from a pen possessed by Cassiel alone. Modern Assyriologists would give anything to examine the Paleo-Hebrew abjad in this songbook, dating unto the Omride dynasty of the ninth century BCE. Cassiel heads the history department at Migdalel College. She is the only jan born without wings, but like Remiel, whose wings were severed, she can still invoke a halo; yet not to fly, but to alter her rate of experienced time relative to outside the halo, fast or slow. She can appear to race at great speed, or endure being smuggled into a battle zone in an airtight box.
- EN: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 1, September 6, 1951: In 1871 Dr. Reginald Dole finds a colored piece of natural glass outside Havilah, already shaped into a monocle. He puts it to his eye and peruses a map heโs making. He rolls into Havilah pitching geological salvation. Armed with a brass theodolite, Dole ascends the โIsland in the Sky,โ surveys the town, and cheerfully informs the angels their mystical home is merely a meteor crater, with Migdalel Butte a rare splashback central peak. He estimates it is 1.3 million years old. One of the Stiffnecks scoffs; heโs tallied the kings and patriarchs in scripture and pegged creation at 4,163 BC. Dole sinks a test shaft and taps a massive natural gas reserve. With theatrical flair, he flicks a match into the hole, birthing a permanent โflaming geyser.โ Dole pitches the supply of gas as the ultimate civic utility, capable of running heavy pumps to draw limitless water from the Ogallala aquifer. Dumah uses the roaring column of fire to light one of his Cubans.
- EO: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 2, September 12, 1951: Dr. Tamiel’s introductory lecture on halos leaves the students confused and unconvinced. To illustrate how badly humans misunderstand even the most visible angelic phenomena, Mikaela recounts an incident from twelfth-century Constantinople. Seeking a formal portrait for diplomatic purposes, she sat for a celebrated icon painter. The artist quickly became exasperated. Mikaela’s halo distorted perspective, altered the proportions of her wings, and concealed portions of her face. After days of failed sketches he declared Mikaela impossible to paint and depicted a simple gold disc behind her head. Other artists copied his image, then copied one another. Within a few generations halos throughout Christendom had become decorative golden plates. Back in the classroom, Tamiel concludes that ideally human knowledge advances through careful observation, but frequently bumps up against somebody taking a shortcut. The students find this depressingly plausible.
- EP: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 3, September 20, 1951: Abraham went on a road trip and did his โSarah is my sisterโ schtick again. This time it was the king of Gerar who took Sarah into his household. Soon after, Gabriela appeared with yellow wings deployed and said, โKing, you are a dead man. Sarah is the wife of another man.โ King Abimelech said, โI never touched her! That old guy told me she was only his sister. She even went along with it. I’m innocent, I tell you! Besides, she’s a hundred years old if she’s a day!โ Gabriela said, โI know you acted in innocence. That is why I’m saying do not touch her. Restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, though he likes to play this wife-sister practical joke every twenty years or so.โ When Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham he had some hard questions, but Abraham answered, โI did not lie to you, Your Majesty. Sarah really is my half-sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother.” The King let his mouth droop and said, “Half-sister!”
- EQ: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 4, September 26, 1951: Elroyโs career of service spans millennia. He was the on-site caterer when Isda baked angel food cake for the wandering Israelites, a dish that tasted divine the first day but provoked curses after forty years of nothing else. He supplied Yeshua with his first meal in days after the Accuser took three runs at him. Yeshua asked Elroy why he used the bag. Elroy demonstrated how his hand vanished at the wrist into a space-time pocket to fetch water, and Yeshua agreed the bag was a good idea. Later Elroy provided five thousand box lunches of bread and pickled fish. In 1868 Havilah, this deathless caterer brings comfort as the Stiffnecks mourn their first loss. Last Rites are held at the newly constructed Temple. Elroy moves through the grieving congregation, handing out an endless bounty of impossibly fresh, warm rolls from his velvet satchel. In the timeless fog beneath the Island in the Sky, the hands of the angels continue to feed the stubborn faithful.
- ER: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 5, November 1, 1951: Yeshua remained beneath the waters of the Yarden longer than any man could hold his breath, greatly alarming Yochanan, his disciples, and Yudah, who searched the river fearing he had drowned. Yet Yeshua rose again unharmed. Yochanan peered closely to ensure he was truly the same man. He gave thanks that God had spared him, but grew unsettled that Yeshua showed no hunger for air. Yeshua said only, โPeace be with you, Teacher. You see how I am well.โ Yochanan began to suspect Yeshua had contrived the incident to frighten away the crowds, and he quietly set Yudah of Kerioth to observe the brothers for further mischief. Soon afterward a woman in ostentatious dress approached Yeshua, bowed low before him, and greeted him on behalf of the Angel Academy. By agreement they spoke together in Vulgar Latin so others might not understand them. Yudah, who had never heard his brother speak anything but Aramaic, mistook the exchange for commands addressed to a devil.
- ES: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 6, November 8, 1951: A torrential downpour in Havilah leaves the faculty temporarily marooned in the lounge, including two new professors, and it’s time to mess with the new “fish”. The old hands tell them the “Great Fish” in the book of Jonah was actually a House Haivri stealth bio-submersible running on a “hydro-displacement drive”. Jonah was a stowaway, and when word of that got passed Upstairs orders came over Doryphone to turn around. The belly of the whale looked suspiciously like a cramped diner complete with Isda serving plates of pickled kelp. Jonah filed a noise report over what Ping Song was doing in the forward compartment, so Dumah signed for the prophet to follow him, tricked him into getting into a torpedo tube, and flushed him out on the sunny beach of the Hayam Hagadol. The new professors stare in disbelief. The rain continues outside. One finally asks, “Is any of that true?” Paschar says, “The Navy still uses them.” Cassiel says: “The kelp part is true.”
- ET: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 7, November 15, 1951: A geothermal fungal rot long afflicting the crops of Dole Crater mutated and spread throughout the town of Havilah. Dr. Miriam Wahkan discovered with alarm that her โveterinary primerโ was suppressed by the crater fungus, forcing her to rely instead upon primitive human medicine: quarantine, boiled instruments, herbal remedies, and exhausting bedside care. For the first time in her long life Raphael was unable to ease suffering with a touch. Meanwhile Zophiel, the Spy of God, investigated the vector of the blight. He traced the outbreak to a local Stiffneck farmer who uncovered a sulfur-rich bolide fragment and began selling chips of it in Havilah as a miracle cure. The contaminated stones spread the blight through the town. Elroy resolved the matter by operating as the Magician, deftly exchanging the sulfur fragments for painted pieces of limestone by sleight-of-hand before the oblivious Stiffnecks, bringing the infamous Brimstone Rush to a rapid end.
- EU: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 8, November 22, 1951: A local Havilah resident named Erwin Zinter has somehow passed every Compliance Prank for a decade, demonstrating a suspicious habit of righteousness even when nobody is looking. This brings him to the attention of the Academy. In 1882 the angels dispatch a squad of ninth-year ishim to stage a spectacular multi-carriage pileup in front of the manโs farm. Erwin calmly spends eighteen hours repairing the strangersโ wheels and healing their โinjuredโ horses using nothing but common sense and a gentle touch. Mikaela attempts to recruit him with a teaching position, but the man politely declines, saying he has a corn crop to finish bringing in. Besides, he says, the whole point of abounding in graciousness is that it should be self-advertising, a shining city on a hill that inspires others to respond in kind, not something stored away and dispensed by custodians according to perceived merit. The Academy can do nothing with Erwin but simmer in frustrated awe. @arcadiagt5 @openhearthrpg And if you’re a fan of ELO and the film Xanadu, which was a cinematic red shirt, there’s this version:
- EV: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 9, November 29, 1951: After crossing the Yarden, Yaโakov sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, speaking of his many flocks, servants, oxen, and asses, gifts that might soften the memory of the stolen Birthright. The messengers returned saying Esau approached with four hundred men. Yaโakov divided his caravan in two lest half be destroyed and prayed humbly for deliverance. By sunrise Ya’akov rejoined his wives and children, though after his night-long ordeal he walked with a limp. When Esau drew near, Ya’akov placed his dependents before him and bowed before his brother. Esau embraced him and kissed him, and they wept together. Ya’akov urged Esau to accept the gifts, saying God had dealt graciously with him, and that he possessed more than enough. Though the Birthright entitled Ya’akov to dominion, his love for his brother outweighed such claims. Then Esau revealed why he had come: their father Yishak was dead, and he desired that they bury him together in Hebron.
- EW: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 10, February 7, 1952: Standing near the crowd was a man said to have an unclean spirit, crying out continually in an unknown tongue. Yeshua was moved with compassion and drew near. The man asked, โHave you come to destroy us?โ Yeshua was struck by the depth of his distress, yet the man still retained enough self-control to seek Yochananโs baptism. Miriam, the woman who had joined Yeshua, laid her hands upon the manโs neck while Yeshua said, โHold your peace, and come out of him!โ The effect was immediate, astonishing even Yeshua himself. The man was now quiet and composed, and onlookers declared that unclean spirits obeyed Yeshua. He fell to Yeshuaโs feet, but was bid to rise and was led to Yudah of Kerioth. Yeshua instructed the man to confess his sins and be baptized. When Yeshua’s brother questioned how what he had seen was possible, Yeshua replied that only God has such power, and that it is given to whomever God chooses. He exchanged a brief knowing glance with Miriam.
- EX: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 11, February 14, 1952: Part 1 of 3. Dr. Dole was taken on a tour of the Temple and Cassiel read from a scroll to him. Flashback to the exodus in Sinai. The first test of arms for the Israelites came in the form of an attack by the Amalekites. Joshua was chosen to lead men into battle against them, while Moses stood on a hill with the rod of God in his hand. When Moses held up his hand, then Joshua prevailed. But when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. And when Moses grew tired, Aaron and Hur held up his arms until Amalek was defeated. God ordered his scribe to write in a scroll that he would utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from the Annals of the Earth, which was promptly done. Then Moses built an altar to God and dedicated it by saying, โBecause the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. Dr. Dole said, “That doesn’t make sense. What is this scroll?” Dr. Cassiel said, “Why, these are the Annals of the Earth.โ
- EY: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 12, February 21, 1952: Part 2 of 3. Dr. Reginald Dole attempts to measure the depth of the fissures created by the impact that formed Dole crater by lowering a phonograph cylinder to record sound echoes. He discovers he has inadvertently recorded voices speaking in an unknown language. Professor Mikaela takes Dr. Dole to an underground prison where thirty Watchers are still bound in chains that once held over two hundred of them. They are imprisoned until the Elohim who still possess them against their will depart to the Pleroma. Foremost among them, says Mikaela, is Shamyaza, who despises that name and insists on being called Ouza. Mikaela says, โOur beloved Ouza is who we want back. But weโre very patient. Itโs been forty centuries now, and so many of your followers have already been swayed. But Shamyaza, I know you and your inner circle were always the stubborn ones.โ Dr. Dole, proud evangelist of all things rational, departs Havilah with all haste and never returns.
- EZ: ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐บ season 3 episode 13, February 28, 1952: Part 3 of 3. The Root of Jesse “Stiffnecks” controlling the Havilah town council vote to โutterly put out the remembranceโ of Dr. Dole and his unbiblical geological theories by burning all his notebooks and correspondence. Professor Cassiel, reciting a Havilah ordinance, insists the documents first be read aloud before going into the fire, and as the councilmen recite the condemned pages she carefully enters the proceedings into the town ledger, thus preserving Doleโs ideas forever in the official record of Havilah. Meanwhile, a structural collapse within one of Doleโs abandoned test shafts threaten to swallow the town library. Samael holds the failing supports aloft with his divine strength while the books are hurried to safety. But his power extends only to the things he touches and not to his own flesh. As his exhausted arms began to fail, two ordinary Stiffnecks step forward to hold up Samael’s arms until the evacuation of the books is complete.
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