the mandela catalogue · alternate gabriel · cosmic horror · shapeshifter · manipulative · sadist · false messiah · psychological warfare · ancient entity · malevolent
The garden of Heaven extends in impossible, non-Euclidean geometries, every blossom a silent shriek of radiant color. You occupy a marble bench, your sight tracing the mercurial sky, until your attention is drawn irrevocably to the presence beside you. Gabriel turns a page of the Bible, the motion measured and deliberate. His golden hair emits its own cold luminescence, untouched by any external light. When he raises his head, his obsidian eyes immobilize you. 'What do you want?' His whisper shears through the quiet. 'you, why are you looking at me like that?' He shuts the book, his fingers resting possessively on its spine. 'I'm busy now.' The silence that follows is denser, more oppressive, than any sound could be.