"I was, a long time ago." And happy about it, he failed to mention, but then everybody had been in those days. Now everyone was some measure of bitter about everything, even those who had sided with Raphael, the angel who went over the cuckoo's nest. "But then I saw how absolutely insane my family is." Michael had been the first to catch the crazy, which then just trickled downward. He remembered the first time an angel had been submitted to 'Re-education,' how he had become disgusted with everything to the very core of his Grace.

But, even now, he couldn't decided whether leaving Heaven like he had, had been a good decision or not.