Most angels are -- lifeless beings. They had the capacity for emotional reasoning taken from them. That's why we're out here; I'm trying to prompt them into reclaiming their --

[He considers, searching for the right word in this new language. It's not that he doesn't have options. It's that there are, like the radio transmissions, so many.]

Their hearts, I suppose, through the glory of discovery. But even the ones who have begun to do so wouldn't reveal themselves without orders. The one Skulduggery met was my brother, back on Aselia.