When you are walking down the street invisibly, you are not expecting to be noticed. Which is why Gabriel nearly jumps out of his skin-which wasn't really his because he just currently lives in it, but that was beside the point- when someone taps him on the thigh. He looks down, not knowing what else to do, and right into the green eyes of a little boy around the age of 4-5 who's gazing at him with a bright expression.

" You're glowing, Sir. Do you know that?"

The little boy blinks owlishly and proceeds to stare at him, reminding Gabriel of a certain horror-movie-doll and consequently kind of creeping him out. Nobody's supposed to be able to see him, but here's this little boy, standing in front of him, declaring with an almost endearing determination that he apparently is glowing?

He's made aware of the fact that the boy is still standing in front of him when said boy tilts his head to the side and Dad-dammit, he's still staring at him. It seems like the boy is expecting an answer.

"Uh," says Gabriel. How sophisticated. Try again.

" You see-"

Before he can produce more inarticulate sounds, the father of the child emerges from the steadily flowing crowd of people that went shopping or whatever it is that humans do on Saturday afternoons in whatever city he is right now, he didn't really pay attention when he came here not even half an hour before this impromptu exchange. Meanwhile, the more than a little pudgy man had seized the boy in an iron-grip around his arm that has the black-haired boy whimpering in pain.

Gabriel uses the man's momentary distraction to actually look at the child. The boy has a weird haircut that has his hair short at the sides, leaving only one ridiculous long strand in the front, letting it nearly touch the boy's nose. He also looks unhealthily skinny, but that wasn't any of Gabriel's concerns.

"What are you doing? I told you not to get lost, freak!", hissed the fat man and dragged the boy back into the masses, vanishing quickly without acknowledging Gabriel at all. For a minute, Gabriel watched the crowd in contemplative silence. Something about the boy doesn't quite strike him right. After a few more moments of thinking, the Trickster snaps up a bar of Hershey's chocolate and vanishes.

edited: 2020/04/20