I can't tell you how many times I'd make friends, go off on a job, and when I came back, my friends' grandkids would tell me they'd died 30 years prior.

The angel was... Well... He was the only face I saw on a semi-regular basis over the course of 6,000 years. I saw him more often than I saw any of my kind. Yeah, it was kind of his job to follow me around and thwart my wiles, but still...