“So that’s my story”, Daniel said, as tears rolled down my cheeks, onto his shirt. Daniel put his arms around me and placed a kiss on my head. “I’m sorry”, I said, "I don't know how you could go through all of that and still be... you... I can't even imagine what it’s like to experience that kind of loss". "But you lost your parents", he said. "Yeah but that was different; I didn't have to stand there and watch them get killed", I said, "It was bad enough that you had to witness your brothers’ deaths, but three years of solitude for doing absolutely nothing is deplorable. How did you even survive that?", I asked. 

"I didn't", Daniel said, "Everyday that I was in there, a part of me died, until there was none of me left. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like years and those three years felt like three lifetimes. If I could have, I would have chosen death over solitude". My heart ached for Daniel. It was too much pain for one person to bear. I wasn't sure if I was going to tell Daniel about Jisung or not. If Seongwoo had been so devastated by his betrayal; how much worse was Daniel going to feel? 

"Is heaven even allowed to do those things they did to you, before you... fell?", I asked, disgusted. "No one knows what they do to banished angels", he said, “It was the part they left out of our books”. “Is this why The Fallen do what they do?”, I asked. “A part of it, I guess”, he said, “But it wasn’t why they were started”. “So then why were they started? I asked. “According to our books, it was started by a fallen angel named Ciel”, Daniel said.

“Ciel believed that the angelic and human worlds should not intertwine, since angels were the superior beings. He considered all Nephilim, Triphilim, Aphilim and Kiphilim impure. He had started by killing his own Nephilim, but he didn’t stop there. He had convinced his entire coven to kill their Nephilim as well. Back then, there was no Sword of Horiel; so there was no way of knowing if an angel could be trusted or not. Ciel had gone through all the trials to become a guardian angel, with the sole purpose of killing Nephilim. He was intent on wiping the slate clean. He never understood why angels had to give up their lives just to protect the mistakes of the ones who came before them”, Daniel explained.

“So all of this just because one angel had felt that everyone was below him", I said. “Soon, Ciel gathered a huge following behind him, enlisting all the fallen angels who had