"He told me that a few celestial angels are switching sides," Aziraphale notes. "His mind must be on something related to that." The angel has no intention of derailing the conversation, so he tries his best to clamp down on his enthusiasm, although he can't keep from wiggling a bit in place. New angel friends, possibly? It'd be one nice silver lining in Lucifer's situation, at any rate.

Aziraphale listens closely as Balthazar explains Raphael's motivations, but then the other angel throws him a curveball that he can't quite recover from. "...he believes God is dead?" Aziraphale tilts his head like a confused puppy. "But that's... that's not possible, surely..."

After that, he's quiet for a long time, nursing his scotch and trying to make sense of what Balthazar has told him. "No, he's... you're right. He's not like my archangels." On the ethereal plane, he shakes out his wings a little, as if trying to rouse himself. "But even if he's in pain, he can't take everyone else with him like that. It isn't fair at all." He frowns a little, thinking back to Michael and Lucifer stuck in a cage together. "What's going on in Hell during all this? Are they looking for a fight? Who's in charge down there with Lucifer locked up?"