i was a kid, but i wasn’t clueless (someone who loves you wouldn’t do this)

People tend to forget easily that Abel had been the first human to die—the first ever winner. His death hadn’t been swift, nor was it painless, and waking up in Heaven had been disorienting and stressful. Learning he couldn’t go down to the garden to visit his mother was, by far, the worst part.

So he gets where Pentious is coming from. He has people he loves up here now, of course; Peter and Emily, for one.

But Pentious doesn’t have that, yet. He may not ever, admittedly. Emily wasn’t kidding when she said that no one up here was quite like Pentious.

But Abel doesn’t want him to feel alone.

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Abel does what he can to help Pentious feel at home, and wishes he could do more.