"Honestly, I hope I'm never in a position where I'm even a little bit omniscient," Balthazar says, following the other angel's gaze over to where Lucifer rests. "It sounds stressful. I wouldn't mind being able to observe and enjoy everything, but to have to know everything sounds like too much."
He smiles then. "It's good work if you can get it, looking at all the beautiful details in the worlds around us. The Nexus is a good jumping-off place to check out new things, as well. Someone I was talking to the other day swore to me there's a Dimension of Shrimp. And not, like sapient shrimp with little undersea societies, just fields and fields of cooked pink shrimp that never spoil. I don't know how that comes to be; I suppose the laws of physics aren't the same there."
"You were all close then, before the Fall? Or--well, obviously not all, but a large group of you?" Because clearly Moloch has always been a rock in the proverbial shoe, but the others Azazael is talking about sound as though they're close.
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Date: 2019-10-07 05:47 pm (UTC)He smiles then. "It's good work if you can get it, looking at all the beautiful details in the worlds around us. The Nexus is a good jumping-off place to check out new things, as well. Someone I was talking to the other day swore to me there's a Dimension of Shrimp. And not, like sapient shrimp with little undersea societies, just fields and fields of cooked pink shrimp that never spoil. I don't know how that comes to be; I suppose the laws of physics aren't the same there."
"You were all close then, before the Fall? Or--well, obviously not all, but a large group of you?" Because clearly Moloch has always been a rock in the proverbial shoe, but the others Azazael is talking about sound as though they're close.