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Freedom seems a double edged sword.

I've never been away from my duties. So, this should be.. interesting..

The first time you get to experience the quiet is always lovely.

It will be very strange. Having a week where I am not sitting at a bedside or stroking the hair of a child no one else even knows the name of..

Of not feeling each death...
Yes, it is good that you will get rest.

It will be an interesting experience, at the very least.

Interesting is a necessity from time to time.

Well, I'll be here if you ever need a shoulder.

I do have some experience in this, after all.

I quite appreciate it. Thank you, Jehanne.

You're always welcome. You know that.

Besides, if nothing else you'll never be curious about humanity again.

Which is very much part of the reason I agreed. I cannot help but be curious.

Well, I've always maintained that the good far outweighs the bad. So here's hoping you have a good experience and drop by, would you?

I certainly will!

Oh, well that was easy.

And please do. You can even meet Wishbone, the latest addition.

Isn't he a cute dog?!

Well-read too!

Adorable.

Not to mention, wicked sense of humor.

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I've been given a week. It.. should be interesting.

. ! meet . .

Very possible.

May I ask who you are?

I'm the things you head or can't breathe.

they call me , .

How did this happen?

A charming flatterer with the ability to delay the deaths of all those meant to die this week decided I needed a break from my duties.

Who is this fool?

I'll kill him.

Stopping death is really less of a difficult thing to deal with than people being raised from the dead. That creates all sorts of issues..

And he cannot die.

Then I'll just grind him into paste for a week.

He could not have done it without my consent.

Hank is flabbergasted.

You did what?!

We reached an accord. Since I trust no one to take over my duties, he has made them unnecessary for a week and given me the full range of emotions that I have lacked.

I don't believe this. I don't believe you could do such a thing. It's bad enough I'm immortal; now nobody can have peace for a week?

Well, I hope you can feel the motherfucking pain of billions.

She drew herself up slightly, looking at him with a chill in her eyes and the faintest trace of bitterness in her tone, but it grew steadily as she spoke.

Ever since Cain murdered his brother, I have attended every death bed. I have watched children waste away to nothing with no one but me to comfort them, to listen to them cry. I have seen murder and genocide. I have held an infant in my arms, left on the street where no one could hear it's screaming. I have watched aged men who have done unspeakable things taunt their victims. Yet I have never judged. I have comforted them all, the saints and the sinners. I have watched the desperate take their own lives.

Do not try and tell me that I should feel guilty for wanting a moment in infinity to step away from my duties.

Hell, I'd hold the torch for you. But there is no death, now.

For a week. I assure you, mortals have endured far worse than having to live for one week more.

You assure me? I am enduring worse.

When this universe coughs, sputters, and runs out of steam...you and I will both be there to see it.

Death comes to all those not of Heaven or Hell.

At the very latest, your life will end come Judgment. I? Shall continue on after then, either with a new position or a new race of beings to act as the Angel of Death for.

I'm starting to wonder. I've been channeling a lot of Source power for a long time...

I'm a being of energy, as you know. All this willpower and fear that flows through my rings; sometimes I think I can feel...something else.

The creatures of Heaven and Hell have existed since the Beginning. You are not one of them, and, so, you will eventually die.

I guess we'll see, won't we?