The Earth was cold and white when Gabriel finally hit the ground. It was different from how he had seen it from Heaven and Gabriel wondered how long he had fell.
He was still in his True Form, Grace floating everywhere, and it was bothering him so he tried to hold it into him. He quickly created a body. He surely has a vessel, but he didn't have the time to search one, angels were going to search him soon enough, and he didn't want to burn someone's eyes while the research. He went inside it, and it was weird, small, binding, but he didn't have a choice.
He jumped back on his feet and started walking, leaving the spot where he touched the ground. His human's feet touched the snow for the first time (there wasn't any snow anymore on the spot, his Grace had made it melt) and and he felt his body shivers. That was cold, and so different from what he was used to.
Angels are made of light and energy, they were as hot as fire. If someone tried to touch them, it would leave a burn.
Something cold bite his forehead, and he looked at the sky, saw millions of little bits of cold falling down. He smiled and tried to catch some. The coldness wasn't comfortable at first but his Grace adjusted to the Earth temperature and after he barely felt it.
He caught a few -what humans called them ? He knew it, he heard it from Heaven- snowflakes in is hands and licked them. It was wet and salty and he didn't like the taste of it, but hours after, he was still there, playing with them, discovering that world he only saw from up there.