one of a class of spiritual beings: a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels). nothing can die, but everything is fucked because of that Everything must be perfect, clean, symmetrical, well ordered, and accounted for. What are vampires but a liminal space between a human and a god, a mirror image of both, reversed yet identical? Yet, how can a monster live up to either ideal when it itself has no soul?