"Thanks?" I said, wondering why he was randomly complimenting me. I looked into his eyes, and saw a dead seriousness. I made an effort to laugh, and trailed, off when I saw that Zyan was still looking at me with the same expression. Cassian's mouth was wobbling, like he didn't know whether he should laugh, be blank, or be angry. Kieran looked blank, and it was almost like there was a floating question mark above his head.

"Wait, you're serious?" I was wide-eyed now, very confused. At that remark of mine, Zyans mouth was flat, like someone had pulled the corners of his lips to make it look like machines did when someone died. His eyes were also narrow, making it look like his face was made up of lines. In that moment, Zyan looked like the real life version of the expressionless emoji.

"Of course I'm serious. I'm not complimenting you, I mean, you deserve those compliments and more, but I'm telling the truth. You have an angel soul, Lyna. That's why you can see demons, and that's why they are targeting you." I was too blank to speak. Shock wasn't the right word, I was fine with everything, but I was an angel?

"Huh?" Was all that could come out from my mouth. Zyan looked like he could both punch a wall, and cry at the same time. I wondered if he would actually do it though.

"Which type?" Cassian spoke up while staring at me. Cassian had studied about this type of stuff with interest before, then nuns in the orphanage were proud. It wasn't how he generally looked at me before, but it was as if he was trying to guess which one I was himself. I felt exposed and squeamish, so I shifted in my seat and looked over to Zyan to see what he would say. He looked immensely grateful that someone understood what he was saying, and started to speak.

"She is a Nephilia, part of the band of warrior angels called the Nephilim. They are responsible for serving justice, and to wipe out the face of apparent evil. They come under the Seraphs, leaders of the 1st rank, the Seraphim. She is of Ethera, capital of Nirvana, or what you call heaven." Zyan said, and everything went over my head. I was a warrior angel? I was part of the first rank of angels? What? Cassian nodded in understanding, while me and Kieran looked at each other, and shrugged.

"Wait, if I am an angel, then I'm technically supposed to be dead right? I mean, you become an angel or a devil only after you die. So we both are dead? Undead?" I was confused, terribly confused. Cassian and Zyan both shook their heads, and Kieran was still just blank. He looked like someone was talking about logarithms and he was a 1st grader. I felt sorry for him, he was even more blank than I was.

"Not undead, that refers to zombies and vampires or those kind of stuff. We are immortal. I mean, we can get destroyed in battle, devils fade into ashes, and angels fade into light, but we don't die of our own accord. But, for now, you are human. You have your angel soul, but you live in a human body." I was even more confused.

"Didn't you just say that I was an immortal?" Zyan was looking into my eyes, looking like there was something missing in them. I wondered how I didn't notice that look before.

"In general. I mean, after you die as a human, you will go directly to Nirvana, and become an angel again. For now, you are a human." I looked towards him.

"Why am I human then, if I have an angel soul?" He looked sad when I asked that, like he was feeling guilty about something, but no one else would understand or help him.

"You are a punished angel. You were sent here to get rid of the sin you committed as an angel, so that when you returned to Nirvana, you would be apparently purified." He said, fumbling with his fingers.

"And what was that sin?" I asked, taking his hand in mine. He took a deep breath.

"You fell in love with me, a devil." I blinked at him. So that solved my earlier question, what we were to each other. It didn't explain what type though.

"Loving is a sin?" I asked him, unclear about what he was saying. Everyone loved someone, be it family, friends or a significant other. Love was what brought people together, what made you see what was good in the world, and what made it worth living for. If loving was a sin, then what was hate? A virtue?

"Loving itself isn't a sin, loving me is. Angels can't love devils, it is apparently against one of the most important laws that both Sheol and Nirvana follow. Its why you were punished.

I was idolized in Sheol. Apparently, I had made quite the amazing plan. First I was banished, so I made the angels punish one of their own. I hated it, all I wanted was the love you showed me, but you were punished because of me. Once, Berith decided to hold a celebration for me, but the second he said it, I punched him in the face.

He vowed that he would come after you one day, and take you as a reward. An angel in a devils captive, they would treat you horribly. And because he will take you when you are human, the angels won't step in, as human is your punished form. I have to protect you, you are too important to lose.

That's why I was always there for you. It took me some time to find you, the angels sent you to this world on purpose. I only revealed myself now because I couldn't help it." He looked at me and made the smallest of smiles. I felt like crying for his sake. I couldn't remember anything about my time as an angel or anything before that, so I was spared from the guilt I should have felt. But he wasn't. he had to suffer for sixteen years, trying to protect me, and risking his own life for it.

Why were you banished in the first place? And why did you say that the angels sent her here specifically. Cassian asked. He looked upset, but he needed to know. He was trying to figure out the best way to keep me away from the impending danger, he was trying to keep me alive. Kieran had gone white, and he was breathing very slowly. I felt so bad on looking at all of them, Cassian was planning on how to keep me safe, Kieran was panicking for me, and Zyan was protecting me for who knows how long, and still was even if it took his life.

I went over to Kieran, and hugged him. He hugged me back, burying his face in my hair, his hands trembling. They were all panicked for me, just because I was weak as a human. I wouldn't let anything happen to them, my family. I was going to do everything I could, even if it took my own life. After all, I was an angel. I was supposed to serve justice, it was part of my very soul.

"I was part of the 3rd hierarchy when I was an angel. The basic angel, bare powers and not part of anything in Nirvana.

I had gone into a library, for information. I ended up finding a book I wasn't supposed to find, something that even the First hierarchy angels didn't know about. I don't know how I accessed it, it was in severe bindings, but I felt like bringing it, and the bindings fell away.

I was caught reading it by an archangel, who took me to the Three. The elders, the angels of the longest time. I was accused of trying to take the power from them, and take over Nirvana. Angels can't lie and since the other was an archangel, he was given more importance. Rank and which hierarchy you are from are everything in Sheol and Nirvana. I tried to explain, and even though I said that I hadn't read it for that kind of information, I wasn't listened to.

I was banished to Sheol for it. The book was originally written in a different language, one apparently even the highest of the 1st hierarchy couldn't read, but for some reason, I could. Luckily, the elders didn't know that I did know what was in the book, only that I had tried to read it, but failed.

There was actually information in the book that would destroy Sheol and Nirvana. I didn't tell anyone till now, not even Lyna. It wasn't that I didn't trust her, but she couldn't lie. If she was ever asked by the elders, she would have to tell the truth. Because she is human now, she can lie, but something will always give her away.

As for your next question, it took me time to find her because there are so many worlds to look through. First I went to earth, it was where she and I are originally from, and where we used to meet, then I had to go to a hundred other different world, but I never felt her presence. I finally came here, to Nome, and felt it. That spark I had always felt with her. I ended up going to the orphanage, and saw her. She was playing in the sand, getting it in her hair as she tried to keep it away from her face. She looked about 5 years old, a small delicate and gentle thing. I was about to go to her when I saw you two run to her, and join her in making the little castle she was trying to build. I stayed back after that. I knew she had you two there for her, to care for her.

After that, she started to see demons. I don't know if she saw them before I found her, but I was guessing she didn't. I killed them from the shadows when they got too close to her, but not before she would see them and get panicked. It broke me every time I was too late to catch it, and she would see it coming for her. I'm sorry, Lyna. I looked at him with wide eyes. What was he sorry for?

It wasn't his fault at all. I mean, why was he banished for such a trivial thing? I thought angels were good at heart, that they would always save others before themselves. If rank and hierarchy meant everything to them, they could take it and shove it up their nose and suffocate from it.

Even if he did read it, then what was the problem? He was an angel for a reason, why would he be power hungry? Why wasn't he listened to?

I felt my anger peak. I couldn't control it, and all I saw was red in my eyes. All I wanted was for something to burn.

Before I knew it... I had set the table on fire.

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