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_{[Adam suspects he must look like someone who can't decide whether to treat the answer as a joke or not--a mix of hesitation and disbelief combined. But who's going to blame him? If this angel knows who he's related to and what had happened on account of the rest of the flock, then he has to know that for Michael's skin suits, jokes are a one-way ticket to having your stomach try to crawl up through your throat.

At least the way Zachariah told them. Now that angel had proved that you were taking your life into your own hands if you opened your mouth and the wrong syllable came out.]}

I guess I'm more wondering why...

_{[Maybe he's starting to get a complex for pain and suffering.]}