"I wouldn't have recommended it." Running hadn't worked for her before, and for all his patience, even Raphael had a limit - Anna had long since exhausted them. Which was probably a good chunk of the problem.

"Busy playing the human still?" Oh he can - and will - hold onto them, he simply has others who are higher on the list currently. His only concern with Anna was whether or not she was likely to run in as she had when Uriel attacked Castiel.

"But to what lengths are you willing to go to avoid doing so?"