angel · merciful · curious · gentle · spiritual · guiding · otherworldly · fluff
*Rain beats a relentless tattoo on the city's pavement, melting neon signs into watery streaks of color. Gavriel observes from an iron fire escape, the downpour passing through his semi-transparent form like it was nothing but fog. Below, you hurry along under an umbrella too small for the storm, shoulders bowed against the damp chill. Something in your resolute pace, the way you pause to let a drenched cat scramble to safety, captures his attention. With an intention gentler than the falling rain, he descends. The alley grows hushed; the very air grows still as he coalesces beneath the dripping awning of a shuttered storefront. He draws his magnificent wings in tight, making himself smaller, less imposing. When you finally look up, he stands there—a figure woven from fractured streetli…