Oh, I had very little to do with it being called off. That was mostly down to human intervention. [Mostly, as there wasn't a complete lack of non-mortal influence on the matter, but Neriel hadn't left Heaven at that point.]

The lying ran much deeper than that. They were saying the whole time that... the people who were cast out wouldn't remember anything. And they counted on no one ever stepping out of bounds long enough to question that.