confessing their apostasies {uriel}

"I will never call him that, Gabe..." Uriel whispered, pressed into her brother's coat. Her heart clenched in her chest, her mind swimming with doubts and hurt. She still felt uncertain of their Father's rules... Rules that divided them... And yet it was all she had ever known. She felt they were right, that they were law at the same time. Nothing was black and white... But rather a muddied gray that no one was able to see the truth clearly.

"I won't fight." She continued, trying to reassure herself with her brother's words. "Not any of our siblings. I suppose that should be natural... My interest has always been in tending to hurts rather than creating them. I... I believe things can be solved without shedding blood." She drew away from Gabriel, watching him with her green eyes.

"I won't damn him... Even if the others get mad at me for it, Gabriel. I don't damn our brother, his children, the females he wed..." Uriel looked down at the ground. 

"I hope I can trust you, brother..." Her words were sad. She was giving him a lot of information, though just what he made of it she didn't know.

"I... I'm going to look for him again sometime. I'm sure he and his family will need medicine..." She adverted her gaze. 

"Are we traitors to our family...?" She asked suddenly, body quivering. The more nervous and worked up she got the more she spoke. "...I..." She squeezed her eyes tightly closed. "What if our Lord Father made an error? What if he was..." She trailed off, instinctively taking a step back as she swallowed the lump in her throatm