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"But will they be looking out for everyone, or only for some people, and if so how do they decide who to look after? In a truly benevolent world, in a world where angels protect people from harm, would it be possible for us to be villainesses?"

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"We're expected to be villainesses of a romance story. Protecting people from romantic drama is all but an incoherent concept."

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"And yet, without conflict and danger, how much of even a romance story is left?"

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"I'm intensely torn between curiosity and wanting to know nothing about your love life. Romantic conflict is still conflict, and I'm not proposing that the angels be omniscient; you'd just have to gaslight your prospective lovers into not going to the angels for help."

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"Not that I don't appreciate the suggestion, but there is so much more to life than gaslighting one's lovers."

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"There is...a limit to what people can be protected from," the angel says, perturbed. "I've been given requirements for things that have to happen to each of the three of you."

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"What manner of things, exactly?"

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"You are supposed to fall in love."

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"Poor bastard," she mutters under her breath. In a more audible tone: "What about me?" 

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"You are supposed to have a satisfying moral victory over someone acting as an effigy of your current mother."

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"I note," says Naomi, "that neither of those sounds like the sort of thing an angel might want to protect someone from."

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"Your thing," she sound intensely disturbed, "is that you are supposed to get raped."

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"Wow. Okay. Well, that sure does put some limits on what angels can protect people from."

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"I think I am satisfied by the limits that implies."

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"Ghys, are you flirting with me?"

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She makes a face. "Angelic protection for children, then," she says firmly.

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"That, I have no quarrel with."

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"Agreed."

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"I would prefer something more comprehensive but it'll do. What should angels look like? I'm imagining metallics."

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"...metallic what?"

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"Like, skin and feathers and hair and stuff? Mostly gold and silver and platinum, with some bismuth and so on thrown in for variety."

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"Hmm." She contemplates this vision. "I'm not not into it..."

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"A concept, if we wish to maintain a hierarchy between angels and elves and humans: humans have one pair of wings each. Elves, who as previously established can shapeshift, may have at most two. Angels have three and up," Ghys suggests.

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"--Oh, I like that idea." 

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