begins. Excuse me. Could you turn around and face me? I have something I'd like to say to you. Oh, you don't have to scream. I don't mean you any harm. You're safe with me. I know what it looks like. Well... I know what I look like. It's not every day you see an angel, right? For humans like you anyway. Look at these wings. I really am an angel. Well, I know my wings are stained black. I can understand why that would seem alarming, but I really am an angel. You told me yourself, remember? You called me an angel. I am an angel. Well, because of some token kindness on my hand, that was really quite heavenly of you. I was in the form of human at that time. I take that form from time to time. It's just so hard feeling like an angel, you know. Nothing is ever good enough. No prayer is pious enough. No charity is nirrous enough. No love is deep enough. So it's impossible to really feel like an angel. At least I never really felt like one. That's why I take on a human form so often. It makes me feel less ashamed. When I pretend to be human, it makes me feel less like a failure of an angel. There's a lot to make me feel like a failure of an angel. I'd always started with saying my prayers. I'd always forget the exact wording or mispronounce them. I don't know how normal I sound to you, but I actually have a bit of an accent in my language. And the language of the angels. The other angels would laugh at me at best, hit me at worst. Often they would get angry at me, they would yell, they would shout, I'd cover my ears, but I could still hear them. The bleeding of my ears upon my hands reminding me that everyone knows what a screw up I am. But not you. You don't think I'm a screw up. You called me an angel. I even disagreed, but you insisted I was an angel. Again and again I disagreed and again and again. You insisted that I was an angel. Me, a real angel. You're a bit of an angel yourself. You should tell me how you're hiding your wings. I'd love to hide mine. But not only did you call me an angel, which I love, by the way, please do it more. Come on. Call me an angel. I'm an angel. Oh, that's great. That's the stuff. Come one more time, please. I'm an angel. Yes, there we go. I just cannot get enough of that. I really want to ask for more, but I don't want to be a burden on you. Seriously, if I didn't restrain myself, we'd be here all day until judgment day. Maybe I can just get a recording of you calling me an angel and then play the unrepeat for myself. By which I mean I already did. You're a me an angel. You're a me an angel. You're a me an angel. You're a me an angel. I hope you don't mind. Now, where was I? I was sure I had a point here somewhere that wasn't just me falling over you. Oh, right. Like I was saying, not only did you call me an angel, but you helped me be one. You know, you really motivated me to be an angel. A real angel. Part of our job is looking over humans. I never cared much about that, though. Humans remind me too much of angels, but not you, though. You're perfect. A real angel. At least the way an angel should be. The sins I've seen you commit aside. That's why you made my job so easy for me. It was always a joy for me to look after you, killing every stinking, filthy demon that breathed in your zip code. All in the name of keeping you safe. Or, of course, it wasn't my job to be your personal guardian angel. That honor wasn't the stone upon me, but I like to think that I took that title up myself. So, please, I'd love it to see if you could think of me as your personal guardian. After all, I didn't so much to protect you. Not just from demons, but from humans too. You see, I know what that about human loves you. I've watched them all this time after all, and terror from up in heaven. I know the horror is an atrocity as they can commit, and I know the lies they can tell. Worst of all of them to me is when they tell you, they love you, or you love you. Which is why I wanted to protect you from such humans to spare you the venom spewing from their lips. In that mission, it started in heaven. You