Isabella leads them at a sedate pace to the offices where Delilah is - she's catching up with one of her daughters, who'd been to Cedar Hills for a month. Once the angel Bethany sweeps grandly away, her black-edged white feathers spread like sails behind her and looking identical to her mother's, the trio can go in.

"Hi, Isabella, Micaiah - who's this?" Delilah asks.

"This is Nathaniel. It turns out," Isabella says carefully, "that he's Micaiah's brother."