"Nope." Gabriel wasn't going to pull punches, there. "I'm good with faces, and I've never met you before. It's possible you two got into a branch of realities where you don't exist. Huh, I wonder what the ones without me are like." They probably involved a lot of happier people. Oh, well.

Luke was looking better, even while looking like a drowned rat. That was good- Gabriel could take the heat, but that didn't mean it was pleasant to have your insides broiled. "So what's your name, kid? I never caught it.