There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil, a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.— Proverbs 6 vv 16–19
We start with Magariel and Blakely, heading back towards Beverley Road with the unconscious Tom Weaver in the back of the Aston Martin. By this point Blakely has healed most of Tom's bruises and sedated him to ensure that he will not wake up until he is home again, and takes the opportunity to resonate on the man. He learns a few things the angels didn't know before. Tom's major interests in life turn out to be his children — er, child — and rock-climbing. He's been doing a lot of climbing lately, because it gets him on his own away from the strained family and work relationships. He has been finding his wife increasingly irritating over the last month, especially since his elder daughter died (something he had no hand in), and his feelings towards Jenny have been growing more… intense. His wife's relations mirror his own, and his daughter is (now) frightened of him.
The angels spend their driving time discussing the prospects of the Shedite returning, given that it probably knows it is facing a Cherub now. They also hammer out the "somebody slipped him some nasty drug" line that Magariel will be using as an explanation of the evening's bizarreness.
Near Ravenscourt Park, Atoziel heads for the surface from the sewers, trailed by Helophel. As he climbs out of the manhole, a familiar English voice asks if he'd like some help; the CI5 agents are there waiting for him. When Helophel joins them moments later, an uneasy discussion is reconvened. The agents refuse to tell Helophel just how they tracked the angels ("Hey, leave us some secrets!") while Atoziel walks far enough away to have some privacy to phone the Laurencians with a brief report and an urgent request for a strike team.
Contact is also made with Magariel, resulting in Blakely her driving by and parking out of the way. Curtis and Keel are chased off with promises to return to this conversation later before Maggie joins the others. They briefly talk over the things Helophel and Atoziel have seen, particularly the snake-like whip, and bandy the name Queztalcouatl (the obvious feathered serpent) about a lot. It didn't really look like a Seraph or Balseraph, after all. Finally, Magariel uses his resonance to direct Atoziel to where Excel currently is. The Ofanite proceeds to keep a rooftop watch on the manhole covers in the area, while Helophel waits for the Swordies and phones for some Servitors of War to help out.
Down in the sewers, Excel and McKenzies are carrying the unconscious Justin Wells in an surfacewards direction, more with hope than an actual sewer map. Boriel is shadowing them while under the Ethereal Song of Form. Suddenly Andrew is knocked over by a flying figure, and there is momentary chaos as more pile in. Once Shelly has got things calmed down again (quite rapidly, she seems to be good at this sort of thing), it turns out that Harry and the rugby players were the attackers, still intent on rescuing Wells. The whole group heads back for the surface, cautiously exchanging information but all clear on the need to get Wells to hospital.
Boriel leaves them at this point, since his Song is running out. He makes his own way to the surface and phones a report through to the Science Museum. The Seneschal is fascinated, and orders him to come in for tests on both his wound and the prophecy business.
Meanwhile, Blakely arrives in Beverley Road and lets Magariel carry the unconsious Tom Weaver back home. (Parallels? Me? What could give you such an idea?) David is the one to answer the door, and Blakely resonates from a distance before driving off. Most of David's relationships are with the people here in this house, apart from his mother; David likes Zack a lot, is in love with Jenny, cautiously disrespects Tom, and cautiously respects/is curious of Magariel. Going the other way, Zack likes David a lot too, and Jenny might love him.
Maggie relates the drug tale to Jenny, David and Zack as they take Tom to his bedroom. Jenny is relieved at the explanation, and while she is nervous she doesn't seem afraid any more. Slightly to Maggie's surprise, David backs her up. Evidently he trusts her, or at least trusts her judgement about what to tell Jenny. Jenny also confirms that her parents had been falling out over the last few months, as the group brainstorm to try and work out when and over what period Tom could have been drugged. Tom himself wakes from the sedative at this point, and Jenny explains it all to him, crediting Maggie with all the work. He isn't really that awake to question, protest or evaluate, so is put to bed properly to sleep it off.
Back on the rooftops, Atoziel uses his temporary inactivity to have a phone conversation with Oloriel about that beer-spraying scene. He doesn't get to see Excel and company leave the sewers since through sheer bad luck they use a manhole cover that he can't see from his perch. Oloriel is evasive, and the two Destiny Servitors talk Ineffable to each other. Oloriel strongly urges that Curtis and Keel be recruited, and says that they are very important. Very important, got that? They have high-powered Destinies that would be very much to Heaven's advantage, but he isn't about to tell Atoziel what they are. He believes that recruiting and training them would increase their effectiveness and bring their frankly unlikely-seeming Destinies closer.
On being pressed, Oloriel offers that knowledge of their Destinies could make them harder to achieve. He does say that he has never seen a human with a Destiny even remotely as important as theirs, and he never expects to see such again. Just give them assistance, OK? They are important, but it would probably be counterproductive if they or beings around them knew.
In Beverley Road, chez Weaver starts closing up for the evening. David leaves Zack cheering up Jenny and takes the opportunity to try to pump Magariel for information. He isn't convinced by the drugs story; he knows too well that the two of them were fighting something near as dammit invisible. Magariel promises to tell him when they leave, an event which is slightly delayed when Zack offers to stay the night. On the sofa, of course. Even so, David's jealousy requires that all three stay for a while to comfort Jenny.
As she walks David back to his house, Magariel fills him in on possession, without mentioning demons and Shedim explicitly. David is boggled, possibly for the first time that Magariel has known him. If Maggie was the help that Zack's uncle had mentioned, well, he was expecting something else entirely. Not "magic," certainly. He isn't forthcoming about what he was expecting, and tries to find out how Maggie is related to Zack's uncle. Unsuccessfully, since Magariel figures that she has leaked enough about the War for one night. And on camera too, since Boriel's security bugs are still pointing at Jenny's house!