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[Henrietta has been feeling a bit stressed lately, and so, to relieve that stress, she has created an obstacle course with her Angelic Powers of Making Things. There are climbing walls, nets to crawl under, things to swing across--all of the cliches of military training movies, with one exception; the consequences for failing these obstacles is a touch more dangerous than falling in the mud. The swing rope goes over a pit of spikes; as she climbs the wall, the slats fall down behind her. With each obstacle the consequences for failure become a bit more severe, until the last one has her rolling out of the way of a crushing block of stone and across the finish line.

She scrambles to her feet, looks back, and goes to check her pulse--only to realize for the first time that she's not breathing.]

...w...what?!

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Signore! I'm not breathing at all!

Not--? [Okay that's slightly more important than Doom Run over there.] What do you mean you're not breathing?

[Hurrying over to her now.]

I'm not breathing. [;~;]

...But you're alive. You're obviously alive. Let me see your wrist for a second...

[Checks for a pulse.]

[And there is one, I think! They never said anything in GO about there NOT being one, at least]

[Lol okay.] You have a pulse. See? It's alright. Breathing must just...be something that angels don't have to do.

[relief] How strange.

It certainly is...you should ask Crowley about it.

Yes. He never mentioned anything about it, but I guess he's used to it.

That's probably it. He must have just not thought it was important.

But, um, Henrietta. What's with the obstacle course?

Oh. I was training.

I see. But did you need to make the traps so...dire? I know the idea is to punish yourself for mistakes, but everyone makes mistakes at some point. It's just part of living. And you wouldn't want to get badly hurt or killed just in a training exercise.

It's because I've been gone for so long.

I know it's important to keep up one's training, but all the more reason to start out small. If you...

[Then he realizes exactly what she said.]

...You really want to go home, don't you?

Eh? [she's taken by surprise]

[Tiny smile and he kneels down in front of her.] This experiment shouldn't last much longer. Do you think you can stick it out a few more days?

Of.... of course, signore. [Oh feet, how interesting you are]

[Watches her in silence for awhile.]

What is it you like best about the Agency?

Most...? [No one has asked her this before. She ponders for a moment.] When signore Jose tells me I did well. That's what I like the best.

[Bright smile.] You'll be just fine, Henrietta.

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