03-25-2009, 10:52 AM
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Something changed behind Gabriel’s eyes, turning them dark. He tilted his head and studied the man, aware that for whatever madness was in his blood there was still order. Some sort of order, at least. A machine gone mad, but functioning. A machine that had maggots in the brain and would seek to slaughter those who opposed it. Had he not believed, as his instincts told him, that the man before him could not be trusted, he might have exploited this madness as he did with Hybrid.
Hybrid, however, Gabriel understood—this thing before him, his brother, was something else entirely. A peculiar smile graced the Aquila’s face, though it did not meet his eyes. “That was the name your mother gave you,” he offered. There was tactic in his process, as there always was. Though Gabriel did not doubt he was considered barbaric and terrible, he was anything but stupid.
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Something changed behind Gabriel’s eyes, turning them dark. He tilted his head and studied the man, aware that for whatever madness was in his blood there was still order. Some sort of order, at least. A machine gone mad, but functioning. A machine that had maggots in the brain and would seek to slaughter those who opposed it. Had he not believed, as his instincts told him, that the man before him could not be trusted, he might have exploited this madness as he did with Hybrid.
Hybrid, however, Gabriel understood—this thing before him, his brother, was something else entirely. A peculiar smile graced the Aquila’s face, though it did not meet his eyes. “That was the name your mother gave you,” he offered. There was tactic in his process, as there always was. Though Gabriel did not doubt he was considered barbaric and terrible, he was anything but stupid.