Tell me I can still be forgiven, even if just by you."Gabriel sighed in resignation. He had only shared angry words with her in the time since she had...been cast out, and only now did he truly perceive the purpose her kind was meant to serve. "You need no forgiveness, Kass," he quietly said."Nor do I think now you were ever truly punished. For so long have I watched you, and yet I never truly understood until today your purpose." The thought he'd been forming became ever more clear in his mind. Here sign this." He slid a paper across the dark mahogany table. "It's a full confession."Parker gulped. He was so nervous, so scared, he didn't even read the paper properly. He signed it and stood there, his fingers intertwined, a worried look on his face. "I'll be the best damned employee you ever had. I'll prove myself, you'll see. You'll all have confidence in me again." That will be a bit difficult since you will be starting out cleaning the toilets." What?" Parker blinked.Jake roared with. I must admit it did look funny, and the comedy of it broke the tension in the room, so that Dunc and I burst out laughing. I was almost hysterical, and I think it was a reaction to the emotional rollercoaster we'd all just fallen off at the end of our ride together. I reckon if I hadn't laughed I'd have cried, I was that emotional. It was so overwhelming being a part of something so strong, and so intense, that had dragged us all in and held us there, suspended in a floating bubble of pure. One by one they stepped back in angelic repose. This followed by the second row and so on to the very back to those left standing. Each wore the angelic repose upon her face on her return. Nobody sat down.Susan returned to the dais and replaced the Rod of Sappho in it's stand. She stepped back and the cabinet closed, for the moment. She stepped to the second cabinet and the door swung open. She reached in and took the Rod of Aphrodite from it's perch and started the whole procedure once more..