"Michael's the strongest of us. Maybe Dad went 'hmm, maybe I should dial the power levels of the next one back a bit'." Who even knows. While Gabriel has asked God plenty of things in a 'young and wants to know everything' sort of way, that's not one of the things he asked.

"My brother hadn't been really given much of a chance to do that after the first few. The ones he'd made took over from there." Given he had been locked up where he couldn't cause problems.