#if they weren't in the program they'd probably die and their potential would be wasted

[blossom-and-others]

"Uriel.”

Involuntarily, Uriel’s body stiffened at the sound of his name. Michael stood in the doorway, staring in at Uriel where he lounged in his favorite armchair. 

“Michael.”

Apparently Michael took this as an invitation to enter the room. He was coming from outside; he’s probably just finished doing something despicable, Uriel thought bitterly. Michael flopped unceremoniously into the chair across from him.

“I’ve had quite the day,” Michael chuckled, evidently trying to make conversation. For some reason.

Uriel thought of spitting at him about how he didn’t care, but thought better of it. Instead, he rolled his eyes and stayed silent.

“Do you remember the Ze family that was such a mystery?”

Uriel’s head snapped up. “Of course.”

“All four kids and two parents presumed dead in a fire. Well, later investigation, if you didn’t hear, revealed a few years ago that the father’s brother had been somehow maliciously involved.”

“I think I heard that somewhere,” Uriel said, fighting to keep his voice neutral. “Why do you care?”

“Well, that’s the thing.” Michael leaned his chair, a dining chair someone had pulled from the dining hall, back on two legs and stared at the ceiling. “We all had that meeting a few years ago.”

“Sure.”

“’Oh the Ze kids are back! Three of the four of them!’” he continued, raising his voice slightly. “’How did they survive? What will they do now?’”

“Nothing really, it seems,” Uriel provided.

“Exactly! The whole thing, all that we got in such a tizzy about, it was nothing. They just kept to themselves.”

“Right. So what’s the problem now?”

“Only that someone’s gone and done it again!” Michael finished, throwing his arms dramatically into the air.

“Wh-”

“I found out today that the whole mansion they lived in has been burned to the ground. As it looks now, they’ve all died except the youngest one, Zelenka or something.”

“Zeleikha,” Uriel responded tersely. It was all he could say. He was in shock. How could this have happened? It shouldn’t have been able to happen. And why did it have to be Michael delivering the news with an air of irritation?

“So anyway now we’re dragged into it because apparently we have some sort of obligation to protect lightsomes or something. It’s all a lot of rubbish and more trouble than it’s worth, but the Council’s been on my back all day.”

Senses slowly returning, Uriel rose from his chair. “This happened today?”

“Last night, yeah. I guess it was Satan Fairfax’s troops, but whether we have any ability to press charges is tbd, it seems.”

“I’m gonna go check it out,” Uriel said, aware, even as he said it, that it was a bad idea. Michael nodded eagerly.

“Yes, yes go. Maybe then Lin and Helios and Vee and whoever else on that stupid Council will start badgering you instead. The whole mansion’s been crawling with those pencil pushers all day.”

Uriel was out the door before Michael had even finished his sentence. In a burst of adrelaline, he sprinted across the sprawling lawn and lept off the edge.

For a moment, he allowed himself to fall. Then he opened his wings, caught an updraft, and began to soar.

#oc tober 2020 #day thirty: flight #boa snippet #boa uriel #also like he's literally the same person but #boa laoghaire #only tagging laoghaire because like in this one uriel is like haha tbt to when i had a family ahahaha #like obviously the archs are a family but they're just lil fucked up #boa michael #so like #probably much needed explanation is that the archangels aren't biologically related #they're just powerful angels that were drafted into the program when they were really little kids because they were orphans and #if they weren't in the program they'd probably die and their potential would be wasted #uriel was the last and oldest to join at age 11 #and he was a lightsome not an angel but that's a secret #also a secret is that he was laoghaire ze and he joined after getting zellie ro to safety and then going to the two people who were in #charge of the archangels (both of whom are now missing) #jeremial and azrael #and convinced them to let him join because he's powerful and they needed another person but the program had stopped #in exchange for archangel protection for his family (ie the other ze siblings) #there's an animatic immediately after this ends #like when he gets to the burned down mansion #it's big sad #also s/out to zellie for burning down her own house the first time but actually NOT being responsible for the fire the second time #that's character growth #honestly she probably would've been involved but she deadass wasn't there #she and ailine took asuna and said ''yeah fuck that shit'' #and went to the dark kingdom #absolute legs