Gabriel once more has this strange disconnect between his physical persona and his soul as if they were quite separate. That the soul could be free, that it could leave the body and be somewhere else. That there was a curtain between reality and spirituality but only a curtain, to be opened at the flick of a hand.

Through the blood of Jesus we have the right to enter the sanctuary by the new and living way which he has opened for us through the veil, that is, his body.

(Hebrews 10:25)