Inside Your Heaven (open)

Nolee smiled kindly, "Well if you want to be friends its something that I must know."

Brian opened his mouth to respond, but never actually said anything; instead slowly turning his head away from her, a distant look in his eyes as if he were lost in thought. What Nolee had said had been right, he hadn't always been a demon, but he'd never actually spoken about how he'd eneded up one with anybody before.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," Nolee replied, "Just walk back to the circus with me? It's awful spooky out here alone..."

Brian nodded slowly, staying quiet for a minute before slowly speaking. "Sure...I guess I could do that." He mumbled, still lost in thought.

Nolee smiled and extended her hand, "You ready to go?"

"I...yeah, I guess so." Brian nodded, sighing quietly as he stepped closer to her, hesitantly reaching his own hand out towards hers.

Nolee gently took his hand, showing him that she was not like other angels and that she meant him no harm.

Brian smiled nervously as Nolee took his hand before slowly relaxing, looking as if he'd half expected her to try something. "Wait...we're walking back, right?" He asked, looking confused.

"We could walk," Nolee smiled, "if that made you feel bad. Or...well...we could fly."

"Uh...I guess we could fly, if we're careful." Brian said quietly, his eyes on the wall behind Nolee instead of looking directly at her. "Less likely to be seen while it's dark."

Nolee nodded, not wanting to admit that the dark scared her. Since she was little, she had always felt watched in the dark. She figured it was because demons found their way in the darkness. "So fly?"

"I guess so," Brian nodded, unable to keep himself from smiling. He loved flying, he always had; the demon having always felt safer in high places, even if it was just a tree he was sitting in. "You don't mind...?" He asked more out of curiousity than concern, not likely to change his mind either way.

"I don't mind flying," she smiled as she spread her wings a bit. "I just...I'm not a big fan of the dark...."

"You aren't?" Brian asked, unable to stop himself from chuckling at the comment. "Why not?" He asked, turning to look at her.

"Well...as angels we're all taught that evil things lurk in the dark," Nolee replied, her face covered with a light blush. She knew this man was thinking she was stupid but she wasn't. As a Raphaelite, one of the rarer forms of angel, she had to make sure that nothing happened to her.

Brian slowly nodded at her words, though he frowned slightly. "They do lurk in the dark yes; but that doesn't mean they don't also appear during the day. You obviously just assume they aren't there, but all you have to do is look in the right places..."

"I guess you're right," Nolee sighed softly, "but power is given to evil in the dark. When it's light out, I have more power than I do when it is dark so I could potentially fight off the evil."