Justice For All Time

As he spotted Justice approaching, the Archangel appraised her with frank silence, locking eyes briefly. Despite the outward appearance, those eyes looked deeper. He knew what it meant to lose one’s parents, and to have siblings go missing. He couldn’t say he knew how it felt to lose a parent to murder, but he knew the feeling of losing one you loved to it.

Cinder’s grave lay along his usual patrol, and he never failed to stop at the family burial ground. It was one more mound – Kavdaya – that had joined Erani, Surreal, Falk, and the sunken herb patch that had been Cairo’s resting place in the grove.

Perhaps if he hadn’t been the Archangel of a pack that needed him, he might have sunk into the same kind of lost pit Kavdaya had when his parents had finally both left him and his siblings alone. Even with the pack, he’d flagged considerably in his duties, and that still rankled with him.

Finally, after the silence drew on, he turned his head away, stating, “They’ve returned to the northlands of Boreas. I was exploring and ran across their scents. There’s no mistake.”

He turned back to the young Ancora and studied her quietly. “Of anyone in Celestial, you and your brother have the greatest right to kill that bitch. And I have a debt to settle with the male she walks with. What do you wish to do?”