With Angel's current ability to turn "invisible," even Archbishop Anthony Stevenson would not have noticed her if he entered the Prayer Hall without the Goddess's help, let alone Leonard and Shermane, neither of whom was a high-sequence Beyonder.
So, after concealing herself, she walked brazenly up behind them, almost leaning against their bench as she "eavesdropped" on their conversation.
Shermane clearly had not arrived much earlier than Angel. She removed her hood, letting her smooth brown hair spill like water over her shoulders and chest, then shifted along the bench to sit a little closer to Leonard and asked softly:
"What happened? Why did you call me out in such a hurry...?"
Leonard was still dressed in his trench coat and shirt. Angel noticed dust on his knees and his shirttails hanging loose outside his belt—this was not the careless appearance he deliberately cultivated, but the aftermath of facing Amon's true body that afternoon and nearly losing control.
Unaware that someone was watching him from only two meters away, Leonard likewise lowered his voice and replied:
"An enemy of mine came looking for me today..."
He briefly told Shermane about the afternoon's events under the pretext of someone "seeking revenge." Naturally, he toned things down by several orders of magnitude, turning a struggle between Sequence 1 beings, with gods intervening in the clash, into a battle between mid-sequence Beyonders.
"...In short, I'm worried he might come after you because of our relationship, as a way of getting back at me... And with the war and food shortages, the East Borough is no longer safe. I'd like you to move to the North Borough. We could rent a place behind Saint Samuel Cathedral, where we'd have the protection of the Goddess and the Nighthawks..."
Leonard concluded with a pained expression, as