“Daniel?” Gabbe looked up at him. “Tell us what we can do.”
“There is only one thing to do,” Daniel said. All the glowing wings in the cabin pulled toward him in expectation. “We must draw everyone to the place where the angels first fell.”
“Which is where?” Miles asked.
No one spoke for a very long time.
“It’s hard to say,” Daniel finally answered. “It happened long ago, and we were all new to Earth. But”—he glanced at Cam—“we do have means of figuring it out.”
Cam whistled lowly. Was he afraid?
“Nine days isn’t a lot of time to locate the site of the Fall,” Gabbe said. “Let alone figure out how to stop Lucifer if and when we do arrive.”
“We have to try.” Luce answered without thinking, surprised by her own certainty.
Daniel scanned the gathering of angels, the so-called demons, and the Nephilim. His gaze encompassed them all, his family. “We’re in this together, then? All of us?” At last, his eyes rested on Luce.
And though she couldn’t imagine tomorrow, Luce stepped into Daniel’s arms and said, “Always.”
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