Uriel blinked, then smiled. At least Loki didn't seem to be abot to reveal that the child's father wasn't an angel. "Well, the choices aren't that numerous for angels," she replied. "Affairs with those not of our kind are rather frowned upon -- well, anywhere but here, they are. And as I didn't meet him in the Manor..."

There were others around who might hear her, but that didn't matter. This should only lead them further from ever thinking that the real father might be Pestilence.