Author's Notes: this is a story that i wrote first and am now typing. set after events taking place in TRY, it's longer, a good five chapters, and involves several original characters, the Slayers cast and Dogma's Metatron. i do not own the rights to either Slayers or Dogma and humbly grovel before the rich people who do.

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*Prologue*

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Eliese looked at her feet. She had just been asked the most embarassing question of her life. She rustled her wings slightly, fiddled with the end of the silver cord sinched around her waiste.

"Do you?" Zelgadiss Graywords demanded a second time.

Her eyes glistened with tears as she raised her face to look at him. "Yes." She whispered.

He backed away, looking disgusted. The angel sighed. She dropped her gaze back to her feet, hoping to hide her tears of shame.

And Zelgadiss knew she spoke the truth.

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