"How are you not freaking out about this?!" Rafael - Luca's best friend - continues raging. "Who is Robert Delaney? Did - was - is he-" his tone actually lowers, "involved?" He asks stressing certain words as though trying to convey a message secret in nature.
"God, man, I'm sorry though - I mean geez, your whole family," Rafael moans regretfully.
"Did he say Lennon was identified?" Fatima asks her head tilted to the side as she observed Luca. "Who is that?" Rafael asks. More like demands. Yet he doesn't actually wait for Luca to respond before he hassles Luca more information.
"Luca is - was Imogen with Lennon?" I cannot help but sigh once again. Rafael seemed like he knew just about everything Luca knew. Rafael was to Luca what Taylor had been to me, except the truer version. With no doubt in my mind, I knew if we asked Taylor who Robert Delaney was, she'd not only answer, but she'd probably do it speaking in tongues.
I thought for sure Luca would answer his friend, so I waited but after ten seconds of heavy silence on Luca's part and heavy breathing on Rafael, Luca ended the call.
Rubbing his face, I stare at Luca, unsure. It was strange, I felt as though we had bonded, gotten closer to one another in such a short time, but in moments like this, I still glanced over at Imogen to see how she would handle this knowing Luca and Rhys the best.
"Why did you hang up?" Fatima demands.
"We can trust him," Luca says with a tone that reads like relief but also apprehension. "That's a good thing," Fatima comments shrugging her shoulders and arching a thick brow.
Luca does not quite jump for joy, that's clear to see. "Right?" Fatima presses.
"I'm half an Angel. I have a soul of my own and Rhys, Imogen has Seraphima, we were sent here for a reason which, as you've pointed out many times, we still have yet to succeed."
"The Elders are cold, heartless animals," Luca was truly spot on after everything we had put together in a short time. Saying the Elders were humans felt wrong somehow. It's as though they lacked all morals and there was not a sign of any humanity - goodness - left inside them.
We all had our beasts inside of us, but the Elders had long ago gave up on trying to live peacefully, instead only letting the demons inside rule.
Yet what I never could wrap my mind around was the fact that all the Elders had turned. How could they all work together? I always had a hard time putting that piece together. They behave ruthlessly where shifters of any kind were involved, being shady. Not as deplorable as we now knew but even now that only made me wonder how they worked so well.
