Eyes flickered across Gabriel's shoulders, pupils rolling as if to look back behind him before they flickered out again.
"I am the only one who attempts to take human form, to the best of my knowledge, and I am the only one of my kind here that I have seen - and I have checked. But I am not the only being of my kind. Much of matter in the first three dimensions also exists in the upper dimensions, but as ...." He trailed off, trying to articulate it.
"As you would experience the first dimension, or the second. Flat. Lacking the ability to fully integrate with the world. That is how I view you, thus. That is how I view humans, thus. All my kind are aware, and all my kind are different and impossible to explain. They would not come here. They would be told of your plight and not understand, or wish to understand. You are a renewable resource." He paused, a single burning eye opening above his normal two.
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"I am the only one who attempts to take human form, to the best of my knowledge, and I am the only one of my kind here that I have seen - and I have checked. But I am not the only being of my kind. Much of matter in the first three dimensions also exists in the upper dimensions, but as ...." He trailed off, trying to articulate it.
"As you would experience the first dimension, or the second. Flat. Lacking the ability to fully integrate with the world. That is how I view you, thus. That is how I view humans, thus. All my kind are aware, and all my kind are different and impossible to explain. They would not come here. They would be told of your plight and not understand, or wish to understand. You are a renewable resource." He paused, a single burning eye opening above his normal two.
"But not to me. Thus I am the guardian."