sing choirs of angels, sing in exaltation

[expunger]

[The feed clicks on clumsily, jumbled and clearly in the hands of someone who doesn’t know how it works. After a few seconds it comes to rest in midair pointed at a stern-faced woman in a distressingly stylish pantsuit. There’s little expression on her face but cold harshness, the kind of severe near-blankness of cold fury. Only three people in the world know her well enough to read in her expression that something is deeply wrong. Only one person could see how rattled and scared she is under the anger.]

Whoever’s keeping me here is making a big mistake.

[Her deep voice doesn’t waver at all, not even in the slightest. Raphael’s mind is racing: she suspects Castiel’s doing, given how obviously bloated on power he was, but calling him out by name seems suicidally reckless at this point. She can’t escape. That much is obvious. She’s tried flying out over and over and over again until she exhausted herself utterly and had to return, Grace bruised and wings hurting. She draws herself up, all wounded pride and narrowed eyes.]

I will not be caged like an animal.

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[checkoutpandora.livejournal.com]

[OH.

FUCK.

HIS.

LIFE.

SIDEWAYS.]

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[checkoutpandora.livejournal.com]

....Sooo gang's all here, huh? [Ever so casual]

[expunger]

[If there's one thing that could knock her on her ass right now, this is it. To any outsider very little changes- a minute shift in expression, a change in stance, her hand convulsing into a fist and gaze sharpening infinitesimally. If you know her well, it's obvious she's staring not out of lack of give-a-damn, but because she's been rendered speechless.]

[Video]

[flameandpassion]

Panicking isn't going to help.

[Pause.]

You're safe, for the time being. What's your name?

[Video]

[expunger]

This isn't panic. [Hdu you little rat.] My safety was never in question, Rei, no matter your concern.

[Video]

[flameandpassion]

[Her brow furrows, slightly, before she gets a sudden look of understanding.]

You're an angel.

[Your mind reading voodoo trick does not impress her, get out. 8|]

Which one?

[video]

[soundsofdrums.livejournal.com]

You'd better get used to it quickly.

[video]

[expunger]

[Unimpressed with you.]

Why? Because nobody has yet escaped? Please.

[video]

[soundsofdrums.livejournal.com]

Not of their own will. Not yet, anyway!

[Video]

[thelightbringer]

Are you really going to complain about being caged, brother? [A pause.]

Or sister.

[Video]

[expunger]

Either. [Brother, sister- no1curr. She's tensed even further, if possible, drawing herself up and trying not to look weirded out.]

You must admit I have reason to be wary. [Look what it did to you.]

[Video]

[seehowitends.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you will. They're not going to let you go just because you want to leave.

[Video]

[expunger]

I never said I thought they'd let me go.

[Video]

[wingsandwill.livejournal.com]

You.

ACTION

[expunger]

[The feed doesn't even click on- the PCD just clatters to the floor and goes to static as Raphael takes quick flight and finds him easily. She grabs him by the lapels and hits him as hard as she can in the face without ceremony, hearing the crunch of bones with more than a little satisfaction. There are no words. He doesn't deserve the effort.]

[gotbackupagain.livejournal.com]

[Oh okay. This is cool. Anna's just gonna go and walk into the Wastes until she can't go any further. Maybe she'll get eaten. Or something.]

You're welcome to try and piss off the Animus.

[Maybe they'll send you back.]

[expunger]

[Oh, fun. Maybe Raphael won't hate this place after all.

...She's from the past. Weird.]

I assume that means something to you, Anael.

[assassinskeeper.livejournal.com]

[Eh, Ray's use to dealing with egos. Not with angels yet, but he's a borderline atheist anyway. So he's kicked back, watching the snark, still working on spinning all that rainbow wool]

No one wants to be caged. And yet, here we are.

[expunger]

How can you all be comfortable with it?

[video]

[unreadability]

Within the walls of the city, you hold full responsibility for your own limitations, Madame.

[video] OMG THANK YOU SANTA LET ME LOVE YOU ;_;

[expunger]

And I hold the same responsibility for accepting weakness.

[video]

[hardcorecute.livejournal.com]

I think it's really mean to put animals in cages, so I think it would be even meaner if someone tried to put you in one, Miss.

[video]

[expunger]

[wut]

They have. This entire... place is a cage.

OFFLINE

[swordoffate.livejournal.com]

OFFLINE FOREVER~

[expunger]

[When they touch down on the wall Raphael starts to open her mouth before her ankle promptly gives out and she stumbles, instinctively grabbing Michael's sleeve for support. One of Gabriel's attacks had broken it, and through the adrenaline and distraction she hadn't even properly noticed. Raphael is used to shrugging off pain, after all- but she isn't used to injuries not healing. She pushes herself up again, completely uncaring about her body weight grinding down on bones, and looks at Michael with a vague, nauseous displeasure that belies the actually massive amount of pain that she's suddenly aware of now that her head is clear.]