As if to mock the entire party, when Walker made the announcement of the following plan and everyone had been notified, all the built up tiredness came to fall on him. Every angle soldier and force that had marched with them felt that they had been holding back a massive river of exhaustion.
This was to be expected. While everyone had been through some sort of life and death experience, they had also experienced massive growth. Some more than others. Walker was able to clearly see that some soldiers had more than just stripped themselves of their older style of thinking.
This was evident in the angels that were still mixed within the Genesis forces. Especially those that had joined from the village that Genesis was helping and now had claim to as their village which united them with the angels' new empire.