“Getting out of the house will do you some good,” Gabe had said. “Go pick up some pastries from this bakery. The gal there can be trusted,” he’d said. So Cal found himself nearing the address, Gabe’s list in his hands, when the man stopped him. No, not a man. Angel.
Cal took half a step back from the stranger, the angel, before he spoke. “I don’t really know anyone around here,” he said, leaning a bit on his vessel’s British accent. “Er, new in town, you know?”
This was the first time he’d run into an angel since losing his wings, so the angel- cupid? yes, definitely a cupid- shouldn’t recognize him. His weakened grace was making it hard to see the man for what he truly was- he couldn’t even see the angel’s true face, just feel his grace like an aura- and he hoped that meant the cupid would have just as hard a time recognizing him for what he was.
“I see. I can hear that you are not from the United States of America.” Jhudiel’s vessel was from Boston: his voice still had that typical Boston quality to it, dropping the occassional R and stretching the A into an E. “I am new to this town as well.”
Something was off about the other male. It fascinated Jhudiel, always curious about the nature of humans however illegal or disapproved that may be. “You are not a human,” he stated calmly. What he was, he didn’t know. Not human, definitely that, but besides that? “What are you?”