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Araqiel's words surprised him, and Cael found himself feeling all the tension in his body leave him as he stared up at the other angel in surprise. "Araqiel....you're....?" He found it hard to believe but knew that the other angel was telling the truth. A lot hit him at once with those words; the fact that Araqiel was actually his father, the fact that he'd had a mortal mother, and the fact that his child wouldn't be the first Nephilim in thousands of years and that meant that they might not be in as much danger as Cael had assumed they would have been. Cael couldn't stop himself from pulling the other angel into a quick and tight hug at the sudden rush of emotions that went through him. If he himself were the child of an angel and a mortal then he shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? There was still the one thing though. "My mother," he started, with a slight frown. "She was a woman right?"