AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Not bad, huh?” came a voice from beside me.
Female, but quick, and lively. I turned my head to the side, and my heart surged with Light. “Gadriel?” I asked.
Dark wings and even darker hair set upon a slight frame fit for purpose; aSeeker’spurpose, to be the eyes and ears of their units, to perform reconnaissance ahead of the group, to find the things that were hidden. Gadriel was the quickest angel I had ever met. Nobody was faster than she was, or more relentless in her hunts. I couldn’t understand why I felt so elated to see her… why my heart seemed to hurt at the mere sight of her.
“Who else?” she asked, offering a slight smirk.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I think I was lost in thought.”
“What’s this? Did I catch the great Sarakielslacking?”
“I don’t slack.”
Her smirk widened. “Uh-huh. I guess I can’t blame you. It’s pretty, up here.”
“It… really is.” I shook my head. “It’s so good to see you again…”
Gadriel frowned. “Okay, now Iknowsomething’s up with you. With all due respect, commander—spill it.”
“I’m fine, really.”
She didn’t buy it. I could tell. Still, she turned her eyes over to the city falling away from us in all directions. For a moment she was quiet, and all I could do was watch her, and listen. Listen to the city, to the honking of car horns underneath us, to the rumble of people as they left their homes and began their days.
“It wasn’t your fault,” she finally said.
“My… fault?” I asked, confused. “What do you mean?”
“Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten.”
“I’m honestly having a little trouble figuring out exactly what’s going on.”
“Isn’t it obvious?”
“Not really, no…”
Gadriel slightly turned her head to look, not quite at me, but past me—across from me. “I made my own choices, and I don’t regret them.”
“Choices? What choices?”
“I fell in love, obviously. That’s why we’re here, isn’t it?”
“You…” I paused, gathered my thoughts, “You did… I remember.”
“I should’ve told you from the beginning.”
“You should have. Youcouldhave.”
Gadriel smiled at nothing and shook her head. “Could I have, really?”
It hurt that I couldn’t give her the answer I knew she wanted. “I was a kind of stickler for the rules, wasn’t I?”
“You were. Now look at you, standing on a rooftop with a sentenced criminal after having rebelled all by yourself. Sarakiel, another Lightbringer who decided to stick it to the Woman in charge.”
“Rebelled?”
“You tried to bust me out of prison. I’d say that counts as rebellion, wouldn’t you?”
Was she right?
