Crescendo: Chapter 15 (Part 2)

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Time to continue with this insanity, as we watch Nora try (and fail) to logic her way through things.

As a note - because of length issues, I had to move the start of this sporking to the end of Part 1 here. If you read Part 1 before this, please, please go back and read the end of it again.

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[zelda_queen]

Yes, seriously. The situation is incredibly contrived, and basically the Nephilim army's leader thought it would be better to make Nora immortal and put her in charge in the event of his death (even though Nora has no experience and makes it quite clear she hates the guy and wants nothing to do with the army) than to try to make his own kid (who actually loves him but is ostensibly sickly and going to die any day now) well enough to take over.

He then, of course, snuffs it (and it's Nora's fault) and Patch cuts a deal with the archangels, who really want the Nephilim rebellion to end. Before Nora got control of the army, they were going to just let the fallen angels kill countless humans to bring about the downfall of the Nephilim... uh, somehow (I'll be ranting about this in the next chapter). Instead, they tell Nora to stop the uprising or else she'll be in Big Trouble. I think they also use some sort of leverage involving Patch, I can't remember.

The archangels do jack shit in the series, which is all the worse when it's revealed that from the very start of the series, they had the ability to send EVERY FALLEN ANGEL EVER to Hell automatically, which they all not only deserved but would have gotten the Nephilim army to step down by virtue of no longer needing to fight ANYONE, yet for some mysterious reason they DON'T. It's handwaved that sending an fallen angel to Hell is only for Really Bad Crimes, but apparently breeding a race they consider "abominations" and leading said race to start an uprising don't count. Nor, apparently, does trying to kill a human, since Patch is only threatened with Hell for falling in love with Nora, not trying to murder her.

All in all, those brownies are most welcome. *noms*