Moment ago... Danton and the Lord's avatar had left Marcus's private quarters with their suspicions unresolved.
The upheaval across Hell's Paradise Island had brought them to him: Heaven and Earth Essence convulsing, Mana shifting, and World Essence pouring into Paradise in such abundance that even those who ordinarily could not perceive it had felt the island change.
An Angel Progenitor awakening beneath their roof would have explained a great deal.
Marcus had denied it, sitting beneath the warm lamplight with a book across his lap and enough irritation upon his face to make their questions seem unwelcome.
Neither visitor believed him.
They had searched and studied his condition and found him apparently wholly and disappointingly mortal, with nothing to suggest that his Angelic Bloodline has awakened much less torn from him minutes earlier.
Heaven-Stealer had left its theft concealed, and even his Soul Flame had been restored and altered before anyone thought to examine it.
