"Experienced bones!" Gabriel gestured in the air with a finger. "I like that. Usually people complain they get too fragile." He would have liked to claim the same, but after having had a cat land on him without too much injury, that might ring a bit false.

He tried to move his feet and sucked in air sharply at the sudden, intense stabs of pain in his legs as the bloodflow returned. Pins and needles? New experience. "Ooow. I'd ask you to teach me a few steps, Mr Astaire, but I think my lower half is objecting."

The archangel winced, trying to move his legs gingerly, but gave up at the prickling and the semi-numbness and, well, pain. Ow ow ow. "No arguments here, Doc."