"Did you want an honest answer?" Gabriel replied. "Because if so, then where would I begin? With the fact that I no longer know what to say to the brother I love? Or the fact that we are all here because Uriel Fell? Should I list everything I could have done to keep him safe, every way I failed him? Or my other failings over the millennia? Or should I go further back to your own Fall?"

Despite his words, his tone was fairly calm and even.