"Well, it's more he detests the entire situation, I suppose." he said.

"Like, Fallen are causing the world to go into chaos with mana and such, and he's all 'mana is nothing but trouble' blah blah blah." he explained.

"...I think this is just more stress upon stress upon stress for him..." he mumbled.

"But yeah, we're doing okay. For now. Somewhat." he said further, shaking his head again.

"I just want everything to go back to the way it was." he then told her.

"...I want the world to be right again. As right as it was, anyway..."

"100% agree." Nate responded.

"...and I never thought I'd be alive to be in an era where a doomsday prophecy/myth became a reality." he said further.

"It's... unreal." he mumbled.

"But it seems ALL forces are gathering against them." he then reasoned.

"So at least we're all unified."

"I don't either." Nate admitted.

"We're just... in the middle of all this." he said.

"All we can do is... help when we're called upon." he reasoned.

"...whatever we may be able to do." he then mumbled quietly.

"It's a little disheartening, yeah..."

Nate opened his mouth to answer, when there was a knock on the door.

"It's open!" Angela called out.

The door opened, and they saw Uriel and Roxie standing there.

"She'll be fine." Uriel said preemptively.

"Out for a day or so, but fine."

Nate met Roxie's gaze, and Uriel and Angela could see that he was already entranced by her.

Again. He wasn't unfaithful or the kind to be, just... easily influenced.

"Sure..." he said dreamily.

Uriel just rolled his eyes as this transpired.

"Oi." he muttered.

Uriel rolled his eyes again.

"Fair." he said.

"But yeah, she took a pretty severe attack." he told Angela.

"We got there just in time, and what you did made it we even got there in time." he said further.

"So you saved her life." he told her.

"But she WILL be out for a day or two." he restated.

Uriel shook his head.

"The Fallen attacked her, but it's hard to say why." he said.

"I refuse to believe that they thought she was just a random person. Her disguise was good, but it would only allow her to evade them for so long, as was demonstrated." he continued.

"...makes me wonder if they're scared of her." he said further.

"Or if it was something else..."

Uriel shook his head.

"Fallen generally don't talk with others about things." he muttered.

"We wouldn't get any answers out of them. Especially if they're working together under someone." he told her.

"However, I WILL agree that her necromantic prowess was most likely the reason she was attacked." he then said.

"I'd say it's a certainty it was."

"Indeed it does." Uriel agreed.

"And it DID work for a while, which is good." he went on.

"It's just a shame that it had to end the way it did." he then sighed, shaking his head.

"But she'll be all right. I promise."

"2 days at most." Uriel responded.

"And when she awakes, she'll be... well... edgy." he then said.

"Not in the sense she'll attack anyone, but she'll be very... nervous." he continued.

"Fallen have a very unnerving effect on their victims, regardless of what they do." he went on. "Oftentimes, when a person starts to suffer from severe paranoia, it's because they've had an encounter with a Fallen." he told her.

"...whether they're aware of it or not."