Chapter 598

• "The Damall," she said, "are concerned with keeping the balance. But spire rulers fighting and killing each other is not a threat to that balance. Heaven allows it, and continues to allow it. What threatens the balance"--she flared out her wings hard enough hair and demon dreadlocks shifted--"is anything that forces confrontation between Heaven and Hell, or allows Hell to affect the surface."
• "Hell, but not Heaven?" Mia asked.
• "Heaven can already affect the surface. But we do not. That would defeat the purpose."