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Evander Cain Lee was once a star, a heavenly creature that did not even need to be mentioned in the cosmic sphere of existence. His wings were bright, strong to fly through the vastness of space, and his eyes were hidden windows to the universe. And despite this, fate, always catchy and unpredictable, had other duties in store for him.During the celestial war, there was one fateful night when to the surprise of everyone, Evander stood up for the archangels. His rebellious urge raged in him and he decides to go for love against the culture and tradition of duties. In this he sinned and he was sent from heaven to earth, his journey through the stars leaving him and the ground. His wings have been stripped of their glory and thus, remained as torn pieces all around.On this basis, they would face each other in a great battle; they knew not each other’s power nor that of the other clans, but Evander rose from the conflict a mortal man with no divine abilities, amidst the beautiful rice paddies of Banaue, Philippines. They could hear the faint hum of the sea in the distance and a damp, musky smell pervaded the clear night air. There is no doubt that Angel – with his traditionally beautiful, metrosexual features and sparkling skin – had changed over the course of time: His facial features are marred and his skin is deteriorating, signaling the signs of aging. He was once an angel with angelic abilities; now he was just human – a common mortal.This desperation pushed him into harder looking for a good place, so he moved to the packed areas of Manila. One night, wandering around he found a modeling agency and there was a neon ablaze of a sign above the door. The owner, a smart lady named Luzviminda, noticed something unusual in Evander’s eyes—one could tell he was somehow related to gods because there was still flickering in them a divine fire. She offered to take him on, and before long, a once skinny man called Evander was all over TV commercials, billboards and magazines. He continued to allure the masses with his otherwordly looks earning him the moniker the “Angel of the Catwalk.However, as the world closed in through the glamour of tailor made suits and blinding flashes of photogenic delight, a man named Evander still wanted his wings back. He yearned for the skies, where constellations are muttering and cosmic bodies twirling. He pondered on whether it was possible for him to be forgiven or for him to be given another chance and this, he said, could be found in between the folds of the silky and the chiffon. Possibly the joy, the applause, from those people could bring him back, could restore what had been lost – grace.And so, Evander Cain Lee strutted across the catwalk, and his movements reverberated with the darkness of the stars that we no longer remember. Io’s eyes were no longer wide with the universe science, but covered with sadness. He looked into the shiny lights and asked himself if this guy could ever get a second chance – an angel on the earth dressed up as man, but still possessing that endless pit of sin and guilt within him.