Careful, this one. That was wise. Then again, since when did Gabriel ever do wisdom over fun? Except here he didn't have his Gace. It made it hard to escape or put things right when he was just an ordinary old human, and he already knew that habit was going to be hard to break.

This stranger was almost certainly an angel, though. The way he was talking was distancing, but his mannerisms were much more truthful.

"Oh, I tried," Gabriel told him with a crooked smile, rueful and sarcastic and bitter all at once. If they were from the same world, his companion should be able to tell who he was if he hadn't already figured it out. Part of him grumped about how many people he'd told over the last few weeks, but really, after he'd already been outed and killed what did he have to lose? "Succeeded for a while, too. And then what d'you know, but I got sucked right back in."

He shrugged and shoveled another forkful of cake into his mouth, then indicated the other probably-angel. "So just who did you play in this big ol' arr-pee-gee?"

He could've been meaning either the one they 'dreamt' about or the one they were in now. Or both. Preferably both; that would be good.