Hi!
So, I was thinking about what I’ve told you about Mordecai, which led me to think about another of the angels that works at the Sanctuary. Gideon, is a Guardian Angel who was sent to Earth long ago to protect mankind. Like Mordecai his only purpose is to serve. But he is still a prisoner lacking free will. He stands on the other side of the Gate from Mordecai, a fully light Angel, but he is still as much of a prisoner to his duty as Mordecai is.
He’s spent millennia on earth, watching his charges be born and die. He can’t help but love each one, can’t help but feel pride in their successes, abject grief in their deaths. He can only watch them though, never touch them, never speak to them and he is very alone. Then he meets Anna, mother to A G, the heroine of “Angel’s Gate”. For the first time in a long time he can be seen, he can for a time almost be human. He gets to be her companion, gets to be there to watch her daughter grow, he gets to fall in love with her, but in the end, like always, he gets to see her die. Something in him breaks and he questions his duty, his purpose. He knows he will never fall, but he no longer can find joy in his purpose.
Gideon was supposed to be just a minor character when I began to write “Angel’s Gate”, but this heartbroken Angel made me simply fall love. By the end of the story I just knew he needed his own book. So, he’s definitely getting one 🙂
I can’t wait for you to meet Gideon. Talk soon,
L.
The ShadowGate Series by L Becker
