Oblivious to the significance his agreement carries for Inej, Michael barrels on. He lifts his eyebrows a hair at her remark.
"And how many of the soldiers you have known have been angels?"
A soldier is a soldier, but an angel is not a human being. For all that he couldn't trust his younger brothers and sisters to keep their blades out of each other when he wasn't around, his and Raphael's command of the Heavenly Host had been near absolute. There had been no wars without his say-so.
"With minimal interference," he amends, then motions between the two of them. "These days, with direct and frequent interference. Though we may not be speaking of the same protections. It was never my job to defend humans from one another."
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"And how many of the soldiers you have known have been angels?"
A soldier is a soldier, but an angel is not a human being. For all that he couldn't trust his younger brothers and sisters to keep their blades out of each other when he wasn't around, his and Raphael's command of the Heavenly Host had been near absolute. There had been no wars without his say-so.
"With minimal interference," he amends, then motions between the two of them. "These days, with direct and frequent interference. Though we may not be speaking of the same protections. It was never my job to defend humans from one another."