Balthazar, too, is excited about the prospect of new angel friends. He barely makes a distinction between celestial and chaotic angels, but at times like this, where he's struggling with his own world and his own instincts, he really needs a regular angel as a sounding board, not so much an iconoclast. Maybe it would be easier with others around aside from him and Aziraphale.

"I don't know what's possible," Balthazar says with a shake of his head. "I mean, Lucifer certainly thinks it is for his world or he wouldn't be anticipating a fight to the death with Him. Your world and mine are different, but I truly don't know. Maybe He got fed up and left us. Or maybe part of His plan all along was for us to go insane with confusion and kill ourselves off. The real point is that Raphael is as broken as I've ever seen any angel, and I don't know what to do with that."

He grimaces at the question about Hell. "Well, you're not going to like this one, but it's Crowley. I'm not sure how he seized power so fast, except that the Princes and Knights are all either dead or AWOL. He's just a Crossroads demon, but he's very clever. Very pragmatic, very creative. And no, I shouldn't think he's looking for a showdown with an archangel."

"Last I heard he was hunting down vampires, and I'm not sure what to make of that."