Of course he knows what sand castles are. He's friends with the shark. He has it on good authority that the opportunity to build sand castles is the primary reason to visit the beach.
Michael finally spares Lucifer a glance as he lowers his hand back to the sand, letting it rest atop instead of tunnelling into it this time. He never mumbles, and he is always direct in his wording. He thought he was pretty clear in what he said. Then again the realization came as something of a shock to him, so it's not surprising it might take others by surprise, too.
He doesn't guess at what else might be behind Lucifer's suddenly rigid demeanour. His memory hasn't caught up yet, hasn't reached that far back.
In a generous display of patience—or maybe just because Lucifer is a convenient audience at the moment—he offers an explanation.
"Gabriel was my brother. Created as such, from the beginning." He has other brothers and sisters here, now, but they were not always such. Gabriel had been like him from the moment of his creation. "Somehow I had forgotten it."
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Michael finally spares Lucifer a glance as he lowers his hand back to the sand, letting it rest atop instead of tunnelling into it this time. He never mumbles, and he is always direct in his wording. He thought he was pretty clear in what he said. Then again the realization came as something of a shock to him, so it's not surprising it might take others by surprise, too.
He doesn't guess at what else might be behind Lucifer's suddenly rigid demeanour. His memory hasn't caught up yet, hasn't reached that far back.
In a generous display of patience—or maybe just because Lucifer is a convenient audience at the moment—he offers an explanation.
"Gabriel was my brother. Created as such, from the beginning." He has other brothers and sisters here, now, but they were not always such. Gabriel had been like him from the moment of his creation. "Somehow I had forgotten it."