It laid awake. The feeling of shutting down and letting the world decide it's safety would have been terrifying. If only it had the normal concerns of mortality and safety. After being just 'born', it already had to kill it's creator's murderer. Gabriel, while a fresh slate, isn't as clean as the others.
When it arrived in the orphanage, it was told about the rules and regulations. There were a lot of them, and while it was an obscenely fast learner - it wouldn't be able to recall minute details, not yet. Somewhere outside the orphanage proper, its other self was wide awake, passively absorbing mana within the woods. Mana wasn't quite rich where it was, but Gabriel didn't need to expend mana. It was fine.
Without concern to how it looked, Gabriel stood up from his bed, made it like how his creator instructed it to do. It was one of its earliest memories, it won't ever forget it. It picked up the shorts that reached to only an inch above its knees and slid itself into a sleeveless top. Its arms got tangled on the way in, but managed to figure it out after a minute. The clothes looked off on it. The fit was either too short or too tight. Gabriel was somewhere in between the build and height of a young man, but with the definition of a boy. It was slim and held little to no muscles - however inhumanly strong it may be.
Dressed and alert, it walled the hallways with its bare foot. Another one of the rules, it noted. No footwear within the orphanage. It didn't mind. It's body was stronger than human children, stronger that its creator's child, that's what he said to Gabriel. It examined the halls and tried to find others. It didn't know there were creatures other than itself and humans, but it would be a great place to learn for it.
Gabriel closed its eyes and breathed deeply. Gabriel has a new home It heard an older voice and followed its source. He said to proceed to the mess hall.
It didn't know what a mess hall was, so it followed the others. It took notice that there were a lot smaller humans than it. It knew it was not human but to see little humans, so different yet so alike from its creator, it grew interested.
It hadn't managed to notice the non-human ones, nor the human-looking ones, but it would soon learn. Gabriel would learn. For now, it chose to follow the lot of them. It knew not to act on its own, it wasn't in it's element and all it can do was learn.
