Meeting the Man
After hauling the books all the way to X13 and Z20, Carl and Akiva threw themselves onto the chairs next to the fireplace. Carl had found out that Akiva's parents had been killed by unknown forces, when he was nine years old. He had walked into their room one morning and found a horrific scene which he refused to describe. Gabriel had found him wandering the streets and took him in and he has been working for Gabriel ever since.
They had been talking a while when they heard the entrance doors opening, the turned around to see a man dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black trench coat and no shoes.
He began to approach them when Gabriel stepped in front of him and said, "What are you doing here?"
"I have a right, dear brother, to find out what my enemy plans against me are," replied the man.
"You need permission from Him before I can allow you to do that," said Gabriel.
"I got my permission," said the man, "Go ask Him yourself, if you want."
Gabriel looked reluctant, but stepped aside and allowed the man to approach Carl and Akiva.
The man was rather tall and had shoulder-length, black hair. This man invoked a sense of great horror and sadness within Carl and Akiva, his eyes were completely yellow (as if his whole eye was one big, yellow iris) with slits for pupils.
The man went up to the fireplace and turned to face Carl and Akiva, "So these are the warriors that He has sent to fight my forces," he said and spat at their feet, "Pathetic."
"You can't talk to us like that," said Akiva.
"Shut up, maggot," said the man.
"OK," Akiva said and kept quiet
"I just want you two to know, if you screw up my plans, I don't care how powerful His protection is, I will find a way around it and I will kill you, do you understand?"
Carl and Akiva nodded together, "Good, see you around," said the man and he left the building; intentionally bumping into Gabriel on his way out. When Carl and Akiva looked at the fireplace they found the Star of David had fallen on the floor and the crucifix had been inverted.