manynames: (Very serious shit)
Azrael ([personal profile] manynames) wrote 2019-09-08 12:32 am (UTC)

Banishment had been... unexpected. Weeks prior to now, he'd lingered outside the portal between his own, smoldering and dead world, and the blazing bright light of an unknown new one. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't afraid of what might have laid on on the other side. Unsure if death might have been vastly preferable to being cast out and away. Surely, surely the incensed Charred Council wouldn't do anything that might bring any level of happiness or comfort to a traitor, even if the act had been borne from deceit.

... Weeks later though, well. He'd had his answer about which was preferable the second he arrived here.

A strange new world, with a familiar, but still foreign Greater Power, full to the brim with humans. With life. He'd have tried to find a way to send a thank you back home if he hadn't been sure it'd be seen as passive aggressive.

Aside from a singular mishap, he'd not yet been seen by anything sapient. Oh sure, one human had stumbled home, breathless and awestruck at the sight of a tall and winged entity in the park, but he'd taken great care not to let that happen again. Moving invisibly was simple for him after all, and direct interaction was... iffy still. Didn't want to make any mistakes.

But it was so difficult to pass by that shop, for a multitude of reasons, really. How could a scholar just waltz past a bookshop? How could an angel just ignore the feeling radiating behind that door? Not a powerful being, no, but there was no denying the comfort it brought to linger by the door itself for a time, little more than dust motes in a sunbeam and the faint scent of freshly turned earth just barely touching the air.

Like a specter did he finally enter, silent and careful, taking care to adjust to the size of the shop itself. Smaller, far more human sized, wings pulled tight as he fully manifested in the furthest most part of the shop. Away from the windows and doors.

After all, it was very hard to flip through pages when one didn't have any hands.

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