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"If we wanted to take over the world and do a lot of bad things," Micaiah adds, "we could be doing that right now. But we're not. Because my angel wants the world to be the best place it can be."

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"How long have you had the magic?" Caleb wants to know.

"Months, now," says Angela. "And for a couple of weeks before that, one of my alternates was here visiting. She could have given me the power in the other world, but you see, I didn't know if it was allowed," she adds archly, looking at Alleluia, "and so she came here to wait with me while I found out."

"So I could have told you no," says Alleluia, "and you'd have sent her away and you'd have no power beyond that of any angel."

"And," says Isabella, "Abjah's baby would be a dead lucifer instead of a live angel, half the ships in the Breven First Harbor would be sunk, a dozen farmers would have lost their crops to pests this year already, some hundreds of women would have died in childbirth who are instead living mothers, and - lest you forget - the continued intact status of the planet would depend on our ability to put together a concert."
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Micaiah smiles lovingly at his angel.

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"Right now," says Isabella, "on this world, only the people in this room know the whole story. Plus the ship, it knows, but I suppose it's not a person, is it. Will you keep this secret as well as the one you've been keeping all this time? Alleluia? Caleb?"

Caleb nods.

Alleluia does, too, after a moment, and then she says, "You can call me Alleya."

"All right, Alleya," says Isabella, and then she smiles. "You know, I thought you must have hated me, to send me all the way to Gaza. I'm glad it was something else, even though the something else came as a nasty shock at first."

"No, I didn't hate you," says Alleya, shaking her head. "If I'd hated you I'd have sent you back to the Eyrie instead."

"Let me add you both to the telepathic network we have," says Isabella. "Then we can talk even when you're at Sinai and I'm somewhere else."

Caleb is again the first to nod, but his wife follows.
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He smiles at the oracle and her husband.

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[It works like this,] says Isabella in a general broadcast to all three of the others, and she summarizes the workings of the brainphone for them.

Caleb looks utterly fascinated, Alleluia more solemn, yet attentive.
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He grins at Caleb.

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[What?] Caleb asks just him, trying it out.

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[It's cute how you're all excited!]

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[I'm an engineer, and I've got a new toy,] Caleb says.

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Micaiah giggles.

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"What's so funny?" Alleya wants to know.

"This is Micaiah's first exposure to Caleb-with-a-new-toy, and he finds it cute," Caleb explains.

Isabella giggles.
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"It iiiiiiis," says Micaiah.

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"It's hardly the kind of toy that you can take apart," Alleya points out to Caleb.

"So?" he says. "That doesn't mean it's unresponsive to scientific attention."
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He giggles again.

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There's a knock at the door. Alleluia gets up to reveal Delilah.

"Come have lunch with me and Noah," Delilah invites her friend, hugging her. "You're here so rarely - Isabella, Micaiah, hello, why don't you join us too?"

"All right," says Isabella.

And the Archangels past and future, and their husbands, all have lunch.
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Micaiah spends most of lunch cuddling up to his angel. Oh, and there's conversation. That too.

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