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[cattygabriel]

Date:  March 18, 2003 (?)
Status:  Private (Gabriel, Dream) - Complete
Setting:  Gabriel's room, then the garden.
Summary:  Gabriel has a nightmare. Unable to sleep, he goes into the garden, where he meets an old and yet new friend.

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[dream_daniel]

Daniel was startled from his quiet contemplation as the newcomer called out. He turned to see who it was and a sense of familiarity hit him. He'd not met this person before, he was sure of that, but his predecessor had.

Morpheus had had several encounters with various angels, and this is certainly what the approaching figure appeared to be, but from what his strangely detached memories told him this looked like Gabriel, the Messenger. He blinked his eyes slowly, scrunching them up as he tried to fit context into the memories he had. He wasn't the same person though and couldn't see things as morpheus had.

Shaking his head to clear the feelings he decided to stop trying to dredge up ghostly memories from Morpheus and just meet him as Daniel.

"Good evening. Care to sit for a while... gabriel?" He said the name more as a question. He was fairly sure he'd identified the angel correctly but it was best to be sure.

[cattygabriel]

This was Dream, and yet it wasn't. He had never met the new Dream, but evidently he could not put it off any longer.

"Yes, I'm Gabriel," he responded softly. How did he know his name? They had never met before. "You are Morpheus's successor, I take it?" He straightened. "Forgive my manners, Lord Dream," he added, executing a quick yet graceful half-bow before joining Dream. He sat on the edge of the seat.

This may have been Dream, but he wasn't Morpheus.

[dream_daniel]

Daniel looked a bit uncomfortable at the angel's greeting. Perhaps suitable for a more formal occasion but for two people bumping into each other in the garden titles and bowing seemed a bit much.

"Please, call me Daniel. There's no need for formalities right now. And yes, I am Morpheus's successor. I'd heard you were here and meant to find you to introduce myself. I hadn't expected to just bump into you out here though. What brings you into the garden this late?"

[cattygabriel]

"Daniel," Gabriel repeated, smiling slightly. "You heard I was here? Who from?"

Daniel's question reminded him of the nightmare, and for a moment he gazed, unseeing, at the grass waving in the faint night breeze. "I had a nightmare," he said, again smiling faintly at the irony - a nightmare had indirectly resulted in him meeting the personification of dreams. "It was... unnerving, to say the least, and I came out here for some fresh air as I did not feel like going back to sleep." He wondered, but did not ask, if Daniel knew what he had dreamt. "If you do not mind my asking, what brings you here, to Lower Tadfield?"