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[Luciferr]

A Z R A Y E L

he processes the explanation and feels the spines that decorate his forehead flatten slightly in dismay - Father (and he doesn't concern himself with the different use of parent synonyms, they are after all eldritch entities that merely chose which they felt better being - and he can attest to knowing how slippery that can be, Lilith often switched between the two and somedays none at all) who would he leave? unless-

ah yes, the date of the year and the suspicious almost similar yearly numbers would have conjured up that grief - and knowing his father, he'd rather rage and weep where none can be harmed by it - and likely forgot the passage of time in the process, such is their curse to blink and miss the lives that pass them by.

the despairing rage of the void shadow, is an ugly thing to witness - if one survives past the blinding grief fuelled god.

he's always been different from his kin in that respect - he deals with deceased daily and for the child that saw the dead long before duty befell, he has his own way and differing views on grief and passing.

but, he'll let father answer the unspoken question there - if he visits or if they visit him.

he relents when his little - newfound - brother detests letting him free him and backs off, far be it from he to deprive family of their own coping mechanisms, despite how it galls him to see them chained (he remembers Father's chains once - and those that tried to ensnare he and his siblings)

instead he waits quietly - ever patient, one thing descriptions of the Reaper have always gotten true - until he settles before speaking in that feral tongue again, shifting to gesture back the way he came "would you like to come back with me little brother?" he is new here, but he found Fenrisulfr's old house and reasoned he should move in - look after what War had left behind - and maybe it might be a comfort to the raptor, after all, they do share family

he hopes he might stay - it's been so very long since Azrayel has talked to family.

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