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She learns pretty quickly, either god really likes her or that's some sort of trait. I wonder if angels reproduce like demons and humans or if they get new angels through the whole human dieing. I really should've found that out when I had acess to the demon's royal library. Strake thought to himself wondering if angels get traits from angel parents or human parents.

"You're my new best friend then too. Since Strake is up there being lame still and not coming down you can take his place." Katie said leaning over to Tristian who was next to her and grabbing on to his arm, as she would do with Strake if she was scared or needed protection.

I should probally get down stairs, who knows what Katie will think if I stay up here for to long. I wonder what they're doing down there, I here lots of thoughts and bickering. How the hell are me and Katie getting home? It's way to long to walk and it's going to get dark soon. Oh well maybe we can get a ride later. Strake thought then left the room with Melody in it. He walked down the stairs and noticed Katie. Knew it. "Hello party people, what's going on?" Strake said surprisingly upbeat.

"Oh yay I have a homosexual friend, now we can do all that stuff that Strake wouldn't do, like get our nails done, talk about men, eat." Katie said laughing, she had never had a gay friend, but she always thought that it'd be so cool. A homosexual is a girls best friend right?

"I eat Katie, what are you talking about?" Strake asked in confusion.

"I've never actually seen you eat, you have food one minute and then the next minute it's gone." Katie pointed out.

"That's because I eat fast, where would the food go if I wasn't eating it?" Strake argued, he really was a fast eater, as a demon he didn't exactly need food, but he got it into his system all the same. He however didn't need to chew his food and just swallowed it whole, since demon spit is like acid when it comes to food.

"Sure, I think you just make it dissapear, like some sort of magician. I meen look at how thin you are." Katie said in disbelief.

"Yeah Katie, cause I'm so a magician and you don't know it." Strake replied sarcastically.

((Yargh, well, I've obviously been back from camp.
I was planning to post during camp as well, since I had a little bit of time a few of the days, but what happened was that my laptop sorta died on me, nad wouldn't let me access the internet or anything. I got it back yesterday fixed, so I've been playing catchup. xd

Oh, and whether the others can see him or not depends on the whole faith-thing again. If you think they'd be able to see Melody before she crash-landed, or if they could see any angel in general everyday if they flew around, then yeah. Otherwise, they'll just have to assume he's there. xd ))

Priest Charles chuckled to himself as the argument took a switch to Tristan and Katie, thankful for both that Strake had come down without doing any harm, and Melody not walking down at that particular moment. Being rather naiive, she had ALOT to learn about the world of humans.

At hte asking of help, he shook his head. "I'll be alright by myself; I'll just go ahead and get some Japanese food then and a box of pizza, since we seem to be in agreement on two foods. Amadeus, would you like to come along with me, or keep an eye on the ones here?" he asked to the angel; while Amadeus could learn a bit with him, he also knew that the angel was worried about Melody. "It's up to you."

Melody continued to sleep peacefully, her dreams blurry yet at the same time clear. She was flying with a strange creature, a small bright blob-like figure with little twirled goat horns on a helmet; she recgonized this as one of the Helpers of heaven. She was in awe as it was trying to teach her about hte world within her dreams; they were only used in High Council, so just seeing one (let alone talking to and learning from one) meant something of high honor.

"Good. Now that we've gone over a few basic buildings, let's review." it said, and they were now suddenly in a empty room, with nothing but a large table that had a very detailed sort of map of hte city of Alphaline, all made out of clay models that were exact right to the house.

"There's alot to learn, and I doubt I'll hit it all, but some basics would be good. Now, for starters, what's this building right here?" he asked, pointing to a building with lots of windows, a few floors, and a playground.

"That's a school."

"Good, good! Just remember that all schools aren't going to be shaped exactly like this one, and some also have stadiums. For sprorts reas- I'll get to that later. Ok, now this one?"

"A hospital."

"Correct! If Zack ever gets very very ill, you'll need to take him here. If you're close by, just run him there. If you're somewhere far away, though, call an ambulance."

"That's the truck that responds to emergencies, right?"

"Yeah, actually! Wait, did I even go over that? Use a phone, or get someone to call for you. As long as someone brings it down, that's all that counts. Naturally, currency is used for their services, and it gets expensive quickly (especially if there's a operation, or something doctors do to a person while they're asleep to fix them), so the quicker one gets better, the better. OK, now this one? You should know this, it's easy!"

"A church!"

"Good! Now a tricky one, what's this?"

Melody puckered her lips for a moment in thought, but then her face brightened for a moment. "Oh, that's a department store!"

"BINGO! Good, you didn't say restruant that time; they're easy to get mixed up. And the difference is-?"

"A restruant is where you sit down and eat and order food off menus.
A fast food place is where you order, but you have the option of going through with your car or just taking it elsewhere.
A department store is for all sorts of merchendise."

"Alright, you're on a roll! I think we're good with buildings, so we'll be done with that. There's all sorts of buildings and types, but you'll learn as you go along. Now we got to move on to common human habits and house roms; you're really in trouble if I don't mention at least the basics......"

"Alright, sounds like a plan, anything for us to do here while we wait Sarah?" Strake asked Sarah. "You know I play a meen guitar on Rock Band, I can do Green Grass and High Tides on expert." Strake said, his favorite game was Rock Band, he played all the time at Katie's house.

"Oh, Rock Band, that sounds like so much fun right now, I would love to play some bass." Katie said in agreement, she also loved Rock Band.

((I think me and Numbah caught the can't write flu))

Charles nodded. "Well, alrighty, I'll be off. I shouldn't be too long, so no need to worry about me." he said, and he went out of the front door of the guest house and shut it behind him. He walked along the path then suddenly hid behind a tree once he was far enough away from the hosue and near the path back to the city. Murmuring a spell to himself he suddenly became invisible, and since the sphere was in God's will anyways, it was also unseen.

Now that he was clear, he could start the work. Pulling out the shiny ball again, it brought up what looked like a box, opening on contact. Pulling out one of his worn gray hairs off his head, the aged Priest sat it into the box. It shut instantly, and dissolved back into the shiny sphere. Then it suddenly glowed brightly for a moment. Now it looked like what a crystal ball would do, but only more complicated, with many windows opening up at once and many screens coming out of the sphere. At last, time to get started!

"First things first, stalling the girl's parents for the night; not good for them to come home so quickly with an angel." he said, his voice also invisible, as the ball suddenly gave him three different scenarios: traffic accident in which no one was hurt, broken down car scenario, free night vacation to a spa. All of them would result in a phone call, but not arriving home til tomorrow evening.

"Any past memories work with the third option?"

It shined again, and there was a picture of the girl's parents at the mall, filling out a contest forum for a free vacation in the islands. "That works: select." he said, and it glowed green for a moment, then sat idle, waiting for the next command. It was like a one on one link with the man above, who gave the man both the questions and possible answers.

He continued his work, working with many of the unanswered questions: the most important, filling out Melody's registration in the real world, as well as getting a house. She was now Melody Maria Lin, no relation to Zack at all. It would be the daughter of a random individual, who had far too many mental issues to take care of her daughter and thus the girl was taken away from her. Melody then grew up at a church nearby in their care, which would happen to be a church near the city. Not where Charles himself worked, but he and the priest there were good friends. Right now, they were working on a new project for those who weren't in the best condition; sending them to different familes to learn more about how to live in the real world. Called: "Project Reach." Only the Priests would be able to choose familes in a final decision, and thus Charles chose Zack as their canidate for Melody. After all, it could be one person, as long as they had good grades, a job, and were helpful in general.

The people are immediately funded if the individual who was kind enough to volunteer was having some issues finanically. For example, for each member with bad housing there was one ticket for them for a raffle, and the winner would have it nice: they would be able to get a house, worth up to $500,000, for free. This had already been chosen; this would be Zack. There were other raffles as well, for money, clothes, house supplies, but the house was the best one. And out of all the people, he needed it the most. He'd get a letter tomorrow with the ticket, and the Priest could help him find adquet housing.

He continued to work with other problems, which included ordering the food for them, which he'd go pick up in a bit.

((is Katie no longer female? Or is she just not 100% female. I'm just messing with you.))

"Where'd Sarah go to?" Katie asked curiously. She saw Sarah's mouth move, but she didn't have the best eyesight, and was not wearing he contacts at the moment.

"I think she said she was going to get a blanket." Strake said, he was a bit closer to Sarah, and his hearing was better than most humans because he was a demon, although out of form, he retained the odd demon shaped ears, but these were hidden below his hair.

"Oh, it shouldn't take that long to get a blanket, I'm going to see what's taking her so long." Katie said. She began walked out of the room and down the hall.
Katie saw Sarah closing the door. "Have you come here to check up on the angel?" Katie asked, just after Sarah closed the door.

Sarah jumped slightly as Katie walked up. She was surprised and a bit embarassed that someone had caught her. She smiled and laughed a little.

"Yeah," she answered. "just making sure she's okay being all by herself and stuff." She sighed and looked at the blanket. Better get this to Zack before he catches cold; then a thought hit her. "What did you come back here for?" she asked Katie.