"Angels are created."

He blinked at himself, wondering why he had said that with so much certainty.

"But something must have happened, several dozen times apparently. I've been an angel, a serpent, a guy just like I am now and a bloody Mary Poppins!"

Anthony looked up as if seeing the kid he was talking to for the first time. Oh, that whole episode had really rattled him to be going on like this to a total stranger.

"And why am I telling you any of this!"