"It doesn't feel like missing them since we never had them."

"Huh. Okay." He starts turning some of his feathers red. "What kinds of things do you need an angel for?"

"Fixing people, but that's very delicate and takes lots of practice. Getting rid of big spills of poison things, sometimes. In my world people think angels are really good, and if they summon angels they might get to go to Heaven when they get destroyed, so they summon angels for that reason and all they would want would be to meet you."

"That one sounds easy."

"If you are interested I can tell people they can summon you for that."

Flutter. "Okay!"

"That's all I had for now, do you want anything while you're here?"

"Do you want to name me?"

"Uh. I would be very flattered but I don't know very much about what kinds of names are common in Heaven, it would sound very obviously human."

"I can change it later if it's too weird."

"Do you know your friends' names?"

"Yeah. Riarime and Agueda and Gabriel and Pher and Tliarq."

"Oh, if some angels are named things humans know as angel names then that'd be easiest, then when you tell the people in my world your name they'll know it's an angel name right away..Nithael?"

"Pretty!"

"Great! I'll summon you again when we're ready to start doing things, you should think of some things you want in the meantime!"

"Okay!" beams Nithael.

"Ready to go home?"

"Okay!"

Angel dismissed!

And he's gone.

Next angel!

This one has a halo! It floats! "Summoner," he says levelly.

"Hi! I'm Timothy, nice to meet you, I'm doing interviews for some future projects but I can get you something for your time."

"'Something'?" says the angel, raising an eyebrow.

"Have something in mind? There's a bar inside with kind of astonishing variety."