An angel, but it takes very long for them to find out, because no one has seen angels in centuries
Under watch.
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And then after a few millennia or so the human population restored and now you are life and life has become death. People think that ‘death’ (that is actually life) is a bad being. Which is how it was from the beginning but people used to thunk of life as a gift back then