05-07-2008, 12:33 PM
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indent She seemed to calm, leaning into him. Gabriel was glad he could offer her this, after so long—she had gone missing for so long, and her trail had gone cold so quickly. He knew it was the way things had to be done, but it still was terrible to think of her alone in the way he had been. He knew that there was a terrible madness in his blood and knew that it had been raised in the wild. He knew that it would not take much now for him to lose that control. It was a tight wire, connected to Faolin and his children. If one of those things snapped, if one was put in danger, he would do far worse then set the world on fire.
indent Still, it did not good to brood on what could come to pass. “I’m sorry,” he offered. “He’s gone. He’s never coming back. If he did, I’d send him back to that pit for you,” he added, eyes gleaming viciously in the pre-dawn dark.
indent She seemed to calm, leaning into him. Gabriel was glad he could offer her this, after so long—she had gone missing for so long, and her trail had gone cold so quickly. He knew it was the way things had to be done, but it still was terrible to think of her alone in the way he had been. He knew that there was a terrible madness in his blood and knew that it had been raised in the wild. He knew that it would not take much now for him to lose that control. It was a tight wire, connected to Faolin and his children. If one of those things snapped, if one was put in danger, he would do far worse then set the world on fire.
indent Still, it did not good to brood on what could come to pass. “I’m sorry,” he offered. “He’s gone. He’s never coming back. If he did, I’d send him back to that pit for you,” he added, eyes gleaming viciously in the pre-dawn dark.