Alex doesn't believe in angels back home. In all of the research she's done around the story, there has never been a mention one other than Lucifer making the backdoor into heaven when it came to the unsound. Demons of course were always on the menu but they weren't the sort that ended up being Christian in nature. Honestly, given everything at this point, Alex just thinks that the Christian mythos was just based on the Sumerian stuff at it's core that it had stolen. Tiamat and the end of the world had existed before Christ had even been born (if any of that was real, Alex doesn't know what she believes in anymore when it comes to that) and things like the Order of the Cenophus and The Brothers of the Mount had just like fused the two together. It's complicated and Alex is well aware of the fact that Murmur isn't from his world even if he had blessed her and it had worked.

But there's a more important problem that Simon has placed at Alex Reagan's feet, and it's a problem that both of them know Alex is going to attempt to tackle: how Richard Strand was going to adjust to his new abilities considering he's fifty-five and not five. There's something more than a little bit worrisome about the whole Mantle of the Dragon thing suddenly being in the forefront of things rather than a hanging thread that runs through the background of the story without any resolution.

"So how do we get Strand to adjust to it, Simon?" Because clearly it's going to be a group effort. Was there any doubt that Alex would put herself in the situation to help? Of course not because Alex Reagan is Alex and at her core she cares for Strand no matter how many times she's tried to tell herself not to even back home. It's something that never works which is how Alex's found herself stumbling into the middle of things with her and Strand practically being rubber bands that stretch and in the end always come back together no matter how much they may not want it.