[A memory wipe on a creature as old as an angel would destroy them, not that the torture wouldn't eventually do the same thing when taken to far, as it had to Anna. But he'd given in so quickly, completely terrified back into submission, that though it had damaged him he'd been spared insanity.

He glances up at her briefly at her words, and they do reassure him a bit.]

I know. I shouldn't allow myself to be bothered by the memory.

[He was quiet again for a few moments, before he felt compelled to continue. He'd never spoken about this at length to anyone, barely even mentioning it to anyone; the most he'd talked about it had been to Anna for obvious reasons, before she'd mostly stopped speaking to him when Raphael arrived.]

It destroyed Anna, and I wonder if it might have had more of an effect on me than I'd thought.

[He does, after all, eventually go insane himself as well. What if it had all started because of that?]

It was Raphael's fault, and my direct superior, Zachariah. All because I discovered they'd been lying about trying to stop the Apocalypse, and had been the entire time.