© Anna-Karin 2000-2001
Everybody looks at either Kenneth or Gabriel.
Kenneth: Why? Why guardians for me? I'm not a traitor.
Gabriel: No, you are not, but I need to take back that little part of me that I put inside you. I'm going to need the whole of me for this campagin. And you must remember that you have gone without sleep for nearley three days.
Kenneth: Thanks to that little piece of you.
Gabriel: And once I've taken it back you will be very, very tired, and of no use for the next couple of days. That's why you need gaurdians to watch over you when you sleep. To protect you from the Bosses troops and from the search party from Hell.
Kenneth: Because they could interrogate me to find out where you are.
Gabriel: Exactly. You humans understand quickly when you have too.
Now this gonna hurt.
Gabriel closes his mouth over Kenneth's. Kenneth feels how something is ripped from the tips of his fingers through his lungs and it feels as if the lungs are going to get ripped out too. Then the throat start to hurt as that something is flowing through it. Then it is over and Gabriel steps away from Kenneth who curls up on the ground, coughing and spitting.
Anna-Karin: What did you do?
Gabriel: Picking out something like that from a living being always hurts it.
Anna-Karin: Is he going to be allright?
One of the punk-style angels steps forward to examine Kenneth, and one of the mainstream-style angels do the same.
Punk angel: I can stay here with Jurel and guard him. I'm good with humans.
Anna-Karin: What's your name?
Punk angel: I'm called Ankael.
Gabriel: Ankael, you and Jurel stay then. You are both healers anyway.
Ankael & Jurel: Yes, sir.
They pick out some blankets and pillows from the car and carry Kenneth into one of the vacated buildings. Ankael makes a bed for Kenneth in a corner of a huge engine room. Jurel examines Kenneth. Then they put him down on the bed and pulls a thick blanket over him.
Meanwhile the rest of the group is leaving for town.
Ankael: How's he?
Jurel: Hurting, but it will heal.
Ankael: I think Gabliel's changed. Before, y'know, he'd never warn anyone, and now he actually did.
Jurel: I know. Mabye he is healing, inside.
Ankael: If anyone can heal from that.
Kenneth listens to the two angels quiet conversaton. He wonders what on earth they are talking about. What is it that Gabriel is healing from? But as he ponders that question he falls into a deep sleep. And dreams. Of a time when everything was alright, nothing was dangerous or difficult. Of his life only half a year ago.
Outside the Vatican Library:
Anna-Karin watches as Gabriel tells everybody what to do. Some of the angels he sends to act as look-outs sitting as birds in the niches of the buildings around the library. Others he sends inside via the ventillation shafts to search for doors and windows to open, so that he and Anna-Karin can get inside, to look for the codex. And a couple he uses as messengers to carry reports from the ones on the outside to him.
Anna-Karin had never thought that Gabriel could fly, but he apparentley could. She had been riding on his back as they flew to the library, and now she is trying to get over the experience. Such a manner of getting from A to B was always portrayed in the films as a very exciting and fun experience, but Anna-Karin had found it to be something she never wanted to do again. She wasn't afraid of heights but lying on someone elses back as that someone flew a couple of hundred meters above the ground, without any safety at all, had really frightened her.
Anna-Karin: Why didn't you fly to Rome? Could have spared me the trouble.
Gabriel: I can fly short distances, but I'm not strong enough to fly the whole way from Sweden to Rome. It's either walk the whole way or hitch a ride. Besides I needed someone to help me find the book.
A door opens and they slink in. Anna-Karin loks reverentley around as she follows Gabriel into the dark rooms and hallways of the huge building.
Gabriel sniffs in the air, trying to catch a whiff of the scent of Codex Uzriel.
Some of the other angels, now in human form, looks around too, pulling out books, and putting them back carefully, peeking into glass montres to see if one of the fine manuscripts displayed might be the one they are looking for.
Anna-Karin turns on one of the computers and searches for the codex.
Anna-Karin: Gabriel! Here! Look! That's where the book is.
Gabriel: Okay, let's go there.
They walk into one of the storage rooms used to store some of the more ancient writings. Anna-Karin tells the angels what shelf to look for, while Gabriel walks off on his own.
Gabriel: I can smell Uzriel now. The book's close.
He walks around one corner and almost runs into Anna-Karin.
Anna-Karin: Shelf 349, book 1087. 1067, 1078...
Gabriel pulls out the desired book.
Gabriel: And here it is.