:grumble grumble:

Ever spend days writing complicated, tangled scenes to figure out how a character got from A to B, only to discover that there's a much simpler, more effective solution, and all that work needs to be scrapped?

I've done all these contortions to explain why my half-demon character took so long to meet his seraph relatives, when really it boils down to: Why would he go near people who are liable to pour holy water on him?