Catch-all Tunnel Log

[servingmichael]

Who: Raphael and Open
When: Day 121
Where: The tunnels
What: Failing all over the place
Notes: If you want something specific, just let me know.

Stane, some other warning, and then Gabriel had disappeared - Raphael hadn't wasted time in going to Michael and pointing out they needed to go - if it was an escape, then they could retrieve Gabriel.

They just hadn't know the tunnels bore complications.

Comments

[heavensmostadorable]

Feeling somewhat placated by the squeeze to his arm, Samandriel nods, though it's very slight. It's too tough to nod while holding one's body so tensely, and he can't be bothered to try very hard, anyway. He's hoping the end to all this is coming soon too, sharing Raphael's discomfort and the loss of grace. It's what adds to his fear over the whole thing.

"I hope you're right," he murmurs, repeating what he'd said earlier. It's all he can think to say, it's all his mind can focus on now is hoping for thing. That, and all the horrible possibilities, but at least the hope does less to further his fears. "Although that feels as though we'd be getting off lucky around here..."

[servingmichael]

"They can't hold us forever little brother. Three of the four of us are here and we will find Gabriel. Whatever our differences are, whatever is coming, or happened...we won't allow others to harm any of you." Lucifer puts him in such an awkward position, especially with Samandriel - he doubts the young angel even remembers Lucifer beyond the Fall, he's the only one to have witnessed Raphael's inner distress over that event, and Raphael really should be working to put distance between Lucifer and the others, and yet...

He's not. He doesn't want to. He wants his older brother. He doesn't yet know how to handle it.

[heavensmostadorable]

"If they can hold us at all, who's to say they can't hold us forever?" He can't help but to ask, looking back up at Raphael with worried eyes. It's entirely pessimistic, but considering everything that's happened around here, and the very fact that this place can trap all four archangels, it doesn't leave him with much hope that they'll ever find a way out. Raphael's words don't go unappreciated, it's nice to hear that he doesn't plan on letting anyone harm him or anyone else, but... Well. This place has successfully suppressed all of their powers. There's no way he can truly make a promise like that, not here.

"Your words are kind, but I don't believe any of us can guarantee such things. I don't know that we can guarantee anything while we're here." He shrinks slightly, averts his gaze from the archangel, and shakes his head.

[servingmichael]

"Because nothing, save Death, lasts forever." Not even God, and while that might seem to point to their own vulnerability in the tunnels, Raphael was sure they could outlast whatever this is.

"No, but I can try. And my will is not insubstantial."

[heavensmostadorable]

There is a point in what Raphael says, of course, but Samandriel doesn't find himself particularly comforted by that. If anything, it only aids his concern that one or a few of them will end up injured or killed while down here and so utterly powerless to any assault. Thus, he can't find it in himself to reply beyond a curt nod.

"It's not, I'm sure, but when all we truly have is substantial amounts of will..." He trails off for a moment, considering holding his tongue because all this pessimism and worry is hardly the way angels are supposed to behave. He should be holding it more to himself, or entirely to himself, but this has ultimately become more difficult. Crowley had effectively broken him, after all, and all Samandriel seems to find down here in the tunnels are reminders of that. "...I just don't know if that's enough."