Rise of The Fallen
he said softly, his voice hardly above a whisper.
“Raziel” I rasped, my throat raw from grief. “You look like him when I first met him, so long ago.” I smiled at the thought.
Met was probably the wrong word for how I had encountered Shamshiel. There are stages to grief, five to be exact. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I had been pissed, beyond pissed, when I slew all those women. Shortly after the world went to shit and I vacillated between bargaining with God and depression. The world had become a desolate landscape since the angels had fallen, almost as if they sucked the life out of it. I would scream at the heavens, cursing God for what he had done then begging him