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Did Michael lie?

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Mira:

--- Quote ---I understand the context: that's why my assumption is that Michael is at least marginally okay with the torture, even though his job means that he can't acknowledge it. 
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No, he wasn't marginally okay with it..

--- Quote ---Does anyone have a copy of White Night that they check? I don't have mine with me, but I think I remember something being said about this at the end (Bob saying something about how the shadow had a tiny piece of Lasciel's power that she stopped drawing on when she turned against Lasciel, I think).
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No,  the imprint of Lasciel was running off of Harry's power.  Bob talks about damage done to Harry's brain and soul.  It's tricky because the shadow was an entity in Harry's brain, but it's power source was Harry..  But it all backfired because of the way he  treated her she developed a free will and chose in the end to be free and serve him, sacrifice herself for him and lost her connection to the original Lasciel.

Mr. Death:

--- Quote from: White Night ---"Oh, well," Bob said. "It is energy, you know. And I wonder if
maybe… maybe… well, look, Harry. There was a tiny bit of
Lasciel's energy in you, supporting the entity, giving you access to
Hellfire. That's gone now, but the entity had to have had some kind
of power source to turn against the essence of its own originator."
"So it was running off my soul? Like I'm some kind of battery?"
"Hey," Bob said, "don't get all righteous. You gave it to her.
Encouraging her to make her own choices, to rebel, to exercise
free will." Bob shook his head. "Free will is horrible, Harry, believe
me. I'm glad I don't have it. Ugh, no, thank you. But you gave her
some. You gave her a name. The will came with it."
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So the way Bob puts it, it doesn't sound like Lasciel was directly, actively powering it -- but that there was a "tiny bit" of Lasciel's energy that created the initial Shadow, which then started running off Harry's Soul when he started treating her like a person.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---No, he wasn't marginally okay with it..
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That's quite possible. However, while I agree that as a Knight he had no direct obligation to interfere, I think that as a decent human being, if he truly thought that it was wrong and unacceptable, he had a moral obligation to try and stop it (rather than stand outside and listen to Cassius' screams)--and he didn't. So...

Mr. Death:
Hell, Michael and Sanya laugh about it.

He's a Knight and he might genuinely want to see the Denarians repent and be redeemed, but he's still a human and not above being a little glad when an asshole like Cassius gets a very-much-deserved asskicking from someone else.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---Hell, Michael and Sanya laugh about it.

He's a Knight and he might genuinely want to see the Denarians repent and be redeemed, but he's still a human and not above being a little glad when an asshole like Cassius gets a very-much-deserved asskicking from someone else.
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Exactly. This is why I feel that Michael is reasonably okay with it.

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