<span style="font-style: italic">She means to... consume her?</span>Alyssa wonders. Her gaze drifts towards the angel's midsection, and she attempts to visualize that flat stomach bulging with a drider-shaped imprint... She barely suppresses a shudder, though of what emotion, she's not certain.<span style="font-style: italic">Can an agent of heaven really do such a thing? It seems so cruel...</span><br/><br/>[Knowledge (religion) take 10+18 = 28, answers a difficult question]<br/><br/>Thinking back to her lessons, Alyssa remembers a passage from the Book of Rubin:<span style="font-weight: bold">The wicked know their fate; they shall face their own mercy.</span>Father Jaron once told her it held special importance for Pact breakers, but she'd never realized the true significance until now- this angel must be the living embodiment of that passage. Her confidence restored, she nods in affirmation. "I entrust her fate to you, my lady. As for potential allies, I'm uncertain of their number, though I know many would join simply for the sake of violence. But if you are confident we can defeat her quickly, I'm sure we have little to fear."