Rachel Caine - Falling for grace

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FALLING FOR GRACE

anoriginal short story by RachelCaine

Angels and Demons.Mankind has proper names for us, rankings in Heaven and Hell, as if he could

understand such an alien hierarchy. He thinks of us as distinct and separate, as constant in his universe as

the pillars of the earth beneath his feet.

Yet the earth shifts, and men die in its throes. The greater truth is the more heartbreaking -- Heaven and

Hell shift as well, boundaries stray, Angels and Demons transgress. Nothing is certain, not even the most

perfect of creatures.

The truth is, the difference between Angels and Demons is so small,sometimes even we are deceived.

Once a month, at an Irish bar called theTipperary Inn, Raphael and I met to play a game of chess and

hoist a pint. I drank Black and Tans, he drank Guinness, and we sat in the darkest corner while Irish

bands wailed wild and beautiful music in the next room.

I always lost at chess, but then I didn’t try very hard. It was the struggle I enjoyed.

GordianKnotwas playing the night he took my queen with a rook, sipped brown velvet Guinness, and

said, "I will be leaving soon."

"Oh?" I studied the board carefully. He was going to trap me, skin me, and wear my pelt. I knew that

gentle glint in his eye. "Going where?"

"Home."

That arrested my attention, and our eyes met. His were wide and blue as an untarnished summer sky,

and I had to look away to keep from tumbling up into them."Fortunate for you. Your work is done,

then?"

Raphael punished my next ill-considered move with pawn-takes-knight. His silver-blond hair netted stars

as he turned to signal the bartender for another pint.

"You would know better than anyone," he said. "Is it? Is yours?"

My work was, in fact, going as poorly as my chess game. Of the three thousand souls I had been

assigned, fewer than twenty-five hundred had fallen; it was a terrible percentage, and I knew it. Worse

yet, on the more than five hundred failures, two thirds of them were guarded by the Angel Raphael.

I look down at the board, sighed, and said, "I will miss you." It was truth, but I would have a better

chance against a lesser player, and I knew it. I was no match for Raphael and never had been. "When do

you go?"

"Soon."As always, vague.It was alwayssoon andpatience andsomeday . It had taken us more than four

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