“He fell in love with a mortal girl just before his ascension.” Her dark eyes traced the fiery veins in the quartz. “I told him I’d take care of her, and that when she died, I’d personally accompany a malakim to harvest her soul. He agreed, but after a year in Elysium, he landed in my guild, his flesh peeling over where his wing bones had once been. He found her again. Married her. They were happy for a while, but then his mind . . .” She inhaled deeply, but the breath barely lifted her narrow chest. “When angels’ wings are burned, so is their knowledge of our world. They don’t forget
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