Bast smiled back, but there was something still very serious in her gaze. Ignoring Adam and the other archangel, she leant over the desk and gave Uriel an awkward hug. She looked like she needed it.

"Don't you go slipping off to la-la land now, okay?" She said quietly, only enough for her friend to to hear. "What I said to tall-dark-and-stone-faced is true. They wanna mess with you, they have to come though me, right?"