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house for generations and Cassie has no intention of removing them. Especially as recently they have taken to moving about, despite being dead for years.
Cassie and Raphael learn that the arrival of a cherub signals that an angel is about to rise – an angel that has been brought to earth as a wingless baby and brought
up by the unsuspecting residents of Edenburg.When the angel develops its wings (incredibly painfully), the cherub arrives to escort it safely back through the firmament. It needs an escort because of the Schwartzwolken, strange, evil birds that attack the vulnerable angel in an attempt to win the firmament over to the dark side.
Cassie soon realises that Raphael is undergoing this transformation, and she must keep him safe until it’s time for him to rise, despite every fibre of her being wanting him to stay. Her dying grandmother is tended to by two monosyllabic nurses, Crunch and Grind, who use the crazy lift system that Cassie’s grandfather installed in
the house, to visit and look after the old woman. Or are they looking after her? Evaline, the housekeeper who has been with the family for so long no one remembers when she moved in, has a different opinion.
When Raphael and Cassie go to visit Frau Fischer, an old woman who lives in a rundown house in the middle of the Black Forest with her goat, Olga, they learn that she is the one who found Raphael and intended to bring him us as her own. But the residents of Edenburg did not think she was a fit mother and took him away from her. She is delighted to see him again and tells him everything she can about his arrival in the forest. But she is not