Good Omens Holiday Exchange

Recipient: #22, scorpling

Title: The Glint of Light on Broken Glass

Wordcount: 13946

Rating: M (for disturbing imagery, body horror, general discussion of nuclear war)

Summary: They stopped the Heavenly (or Hellish, depending on whom one asked) Apocalypse and went back to their lives. They fed ducks and they ate decadent meals and drank expensive wine. And they did not notice as the humans hurtled closer and closer to disaster. When the true apocalypse happened neither Heaven nor Hell was involved in the slightest, it was all down to humans’ thoughts and humans’ ideas and the humans’ hatred of each other. 

And so, Heaven watched in horror and Hell in delight as the humans tore atoms asunder to kill and to desecrate and to destroy. Then, they very carefully decided it was maybe a good idea to give things a few years to settle, after all, they still had their agents on Earth. 

No need for further involvement. 

Thus, three decades pass. 

Today, Sophie Greenbriar decides to search the ruins of what was once Soho for salvage.
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