Lead with your head, not with your heart

[Marguerite De Silva]

This little baby boy's trouble Jack
We have to ditch him

I know Bee's giving you the big old doe eyes right now but I don't see this leading anywhere good

Jack Ripley

(Gonna do Marge's running commentary here—she's texting Jack cause she doesn't want to say this stuff out loud in front of Raf. One less person to add to the chaos of the scene!)

[Jack Ripley]

I admit, I am having my second thoughts now.
But I did promise him...

[Marguerite De Silva]

Look away from Bee
Right now

This doesn't seem kosher

I need to talk to this kid alone

[Jack Ripley]

Are you seeing something wrong in him?
Like in his heart light thing?

[Marguerite De Silva]

I'm not seeing any light Jack

No light
No darkness
Nothing

[Jack Ripley]

What does that mean?
To me that sounds
unnatural

[Marguerite De Silva]

More like
fucking impossible, Jack

I need to get him alone, see what this is all about

I'll take him to Bee's place? You two should be okay for a few minutes without me here.

[Jack Ripley]

Does that mean even Keith had something? In his heart?
And Raphael doesn't?

...And yeah, if you want to talk to him alone, you're welcome to B's place.
But be careful.
And... try not to hurt him.

[Marguerite De Silva]

Keith had nothing either, Jack
That THING up on the ridge? It also had nothing because it had no soul

So
What's this little boy?
Another thing like Keith?

I won't hurt him, but I won't let him hurt you or Bee either

[Jack Ripley]

Oh right... I forgot you haven't met the real Keith, only that... thing that wasn't him...

So he has no soul...
It's because he was part of the fallen, right?
And... there's no way to change that?

[Marguerite De Silva]

No Jack, everything has a soul, even the fallen. Theirs is just dark

The thing on the ridge
Maybe even this little boy
They're Golems

They're... man-made things that contain a piece of the original maker's soul, but not enough to give off light. There's just enough for them to seem alive.

This isn't the real Raphael Jack
I don't know why or
what's going on but he sent some kind of substitute of himself over

[Jack Ripley]

What?!

...
Then we have to

get rid of it, don't we?

*sitting closer to Brayden*

[Marguerite De Silva]

I'm not sure

I don't sense anything malicious off of him
Just
Nothing where a light should be

[Jack Ripley]

I feel like I've been catfished...

[Marguerite De Silva]

In a way
definitely

We'll know for sure if he doesn't have wings, or traces of where wings used to be if he's really fallen
Golems don't get wings, only the real ones do--that's how you tell them apart usually

Wonder what he really wants though...
He said he wanted protection but then
Maybe he wants to know we're legit before he comes himself