Powers getting lost. Not an angel anymore. The words echo around his head for a moment before he's able to allow himself to accept the sense of them. He's mortal now - it isn't that he's weak or deaf or blind...except in comparison to what he's been for the last four thousand years.

"It makes sense," he says at last. "And considering Exspheres...it could be worse. Although I'm left wondering how they expect us to help them if we're sealed like this."