Gabriel tilts his head slightly. "Alternate reality is probably a good way to put it. Something happened differently there. So far as we can tell, things are otherwise mostly the same. You know, someone taking a metaphorical left instead of going right."

So the broad strokes are the same, it's just some of the details that are different.

"I told him that bar was the best place to look for them, if he wanted to meet them. That goes for you, too. Most angels wouldn't be caught dead in one, but obviously, we aren't most angels. I've spent a couple thousand years running around on Earth and the others here have also found they enjoy life down here more than Upstairs as well." Not that Medietas was on any version of Earth so far as Gabriel was aware. But he's sure she'll get what he means.