The wrinkles by Makiel’s eyes deepened as he smiled. “I know. I know…everything.” It was perhaps the most like Ozriel the man had ever sounded. The second the light in his eyes faded, Ozriel reappeared in a column of sapphire flames. He looked down at his hands and patted his own chest in disbelief. “You really did it! I said I was counting on you, but I didn’t actually believe you could do it.” “Makiel—” Suriel began, but Ozriel waved away the rest of her sentence. “I know,” he said. He gazed at the body floating in space, and Suriel saw the weight of ages and the sadness of the Reaper
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