Eustass Kidd for Pirate King

somoen *thinks* they saw crowely, but whatever they saw was gone before anything was confirmed, and Heaven stood tence as every shadow was checked.

Gabreal return to his office, and once sure the area was snake free, openeed the Room to check on its occupant.
azi was gasping for air; gabriel carefully did not study the other as he glanced around the Room; careful to lot let his gaze linger on the thick welts crossing azi's back. a few had broken open, fresh blood spilling down ontot he plate. someone must have been here when the alarm had originally sounded. satifief there was no one int he Room now, gabril left, again not ooking back.
what would he have done, gab wondered as he stood in hsi office, door once again vanshing from it's sopt on his wall, if he had entered the Room wile it had been occulpied. what woud he have done, if an angel was still flogging the bound azirpahle when he's come to cchck fo ther serpant?
What indedd.
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Crowley is caught instead of run off. Angels don’t think they can kill him, but threaten to discoperate him.c rowley counters by warning them that if the send him to hell, he will tell them how he got into heaven.
Angels mock, asking he things that will garner him favours
He admits it wont. But hell is harder to get out of than heaven is to get into. If he goes to hell, he’ll brpably never resuce azi; so he’ll bring hell to heaven in retaliation.

Gabriel will be told this at a briefing later. as Uriel agrees to remove the snake from Heaven, Gabriel is instead standing once again inside the Room
uprigfth clearly become to hard to maintain - az sluscing foward at the edge of his bindings, resting with his face pressed against he cold stone. it's the worse gab has heard the angels briething, lungs stuggling and failing to expand enough for a full break
the bones ridges of the human spine and ribs where beging to show though, no longer hidden under fat or muscle. beatings no longer left strips of thick sowllen flesh be instead the skin simply tore apart
he nearly left like he had each time before, stopped half cross the threshhold by a waek sob. gabril looked back; if azirpahle knew he'd made a noise, he shown no sign of it.
Gabril returned toe Room, moving to stand before azi for the first time since the door in his office was installed. azi trembled prefor him.
once, it would have made gab feel powerful. it should have at the least filled him with disdane.
"Do you wish to remain prosate before all of heaven?"
it was waek, wnd wet, but azi snorted, a garbled sound a dissent
unkindly, one hand fisting in azi's hair, the second rough on azi's shoulder, gab pulled azi bak upright
azi grunted what might have been a thanks, might have been a diragitory comment. eitherway, gabriel didn't care.
yet, he still couldn't hlp look back as he moved to close the door. azi sat on his heels, looked back over a shoulder at him. dull eyed, gaze tired. the browsing on his jaw and around him mouth a heavy contrast witht he gold red blood falling freely from his lips
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Crowley is caught by quartermaster - wards did not alarm

Starvation looses bindings, azi able to lay fla on back hurts his arms and legs to do so but can breth easier
Leaves himself open to new ways to be ingured - ‘fresh canvas’
He offers gabril no comment as the archangel scoffs, and gabril offers him no help this time