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[ineffable_angel]

Date: February 11th, 2001
Setting: Hospital Wing
Status: Private - Aziraphale, Loki
Summary: Aziraphale tells Loki of Uriel's evident departure.

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[leucemic_god]

The knock on the door startled Loki and he realised to his embarrassment that he'd dozed off over his attempts to secretly read the Bible again. This thing was too wierd, though. Not killing was one of the most important rules in this religion, right? Nevertheless he'd just read about its main god ordering his faithful follower to murder his own son and rewarding him for truly intending to go through with it. The Norse pantheon with all its scandals had shown more morals!

He hastily pushed the book under his pillow when he realised he was about to have a visitor.

"Ezra! Do come in! How nice of you to visit." And it was indeed. After all the not-god barely knew him and considering that his own sister still hadn't dropped by Loki wasn't expecting much interest from the rest of her pantheon.

[ineffable_angel]

"Not at all," the angel smiled, closing the door behind him as he entered and hovered uncertainly near a chair. "You look quite... rather, I mean, of course you wouldn't look... Ah. It's nice to see you, Loki. Is there anything I can get you? A glass of water perhaps? On another day I could lend you books from the Manor library, but..." today I come on another matter, his voice ached to finish. He cleared it roughly, mindful to pull out a handkerchief and press it to his mouth as he did so. Something about immune systems of invalids... even though it was just clearing his throat.

"Would this be a good time to talk?" he asked awkwardly, hands resting on the back of the chair. "Are you feeling well enough to, I mean? I'd hate to cause you any undue distress..."

[leucemic_god]

"Oh sit down already," Loki said smiling at the not-god's antics. He wasn't used to people being very considerate around him. Well, people around here were surprisingly considerate compared to what he was used to, but Ezra's awkwardness was a new experience. "I lost all my hair again, yes. I'm aware of that. More books are always welcome, though. If you can find something I haven't read yet, that is."

He had no idea what Ezra might want to talk about, but any distraction was welcome.

[ineffable_angel]

"Er. Well. Yes, all right."

He sunk into a chair, looking decidedly uncomfortable. "I'm actually here because I'm wondering if - if perhaps you've seen, or heard from Uriel, really. I haven't seen her lately and I worried that - well, you know, I haven't been around all that much..." He gave up. "Have you seen her?"