Window-shopping.
Grell gave her a baffled look. She thought people were good? What different lives angels lived from reapers. “People have little sparks of good in them,” Grell conceded. “Although the sparks only really serve to illuminate all their evil.” She shrugged. “It doesn’t matter. Eventually they all die.”
In contrast, Grell was far from naive. She’d passed through outrage at human nature before she’d even died, moved into jaded cynicism afterwards, and over the past century had taught herself to live somewhere between amused and apathetic. Only a few things could sincerely break through her façade now. Things like children and young lovers.
Charity’s life before rebirth was very happy until her dying days. She had a father, and a mother, and two other siblings that were older than her. The only bad thing that ever truly happened to her was the day of her death. She didn’t think about it much, as her soul was generally light and happy. “What brings you to the—? What is the word?” She swallowed, becoming frustrated when her words escaped her and only Arabic filled her mind. “Ah! What brings you to the market?” She spoke slowly, regaining that huge smile that dimpled her cheeks.
She wanted to know so much more about her. Everything fascinated her, but it wasn’t everyday she came across someone like her. “There are lovely things here–so much life.” She squinted her eyes in happiness, cheeks rosy. She still had the behavior of a human, as she was human a very short time ago.
“A snack.” Grell held up her little packet of meat. (Blood was beginning to soak through the wrapping. Grell preferred her food raw.) “And I like looking at the finer things for sale. But they’re a bit out of my price range.” A wistful sigh.
“What about you? I don’t suppose your kind need to eat, do they?” Grell knew, of course, that reapers needed sleep and occasional food, and that demons didn’t sleep and only ate souls; but she knew far less about the needs of angels. Most sources she’d found claimed that angels could eat bread, but didn’t say if they needed to, much less whether they ate anything else.









