"And a good thing I was too," Gabriel said, ignoring the question completely. How could he say why he did it when he wasn't even that sure himself? "How did you manage to get yourself cut up this badly in a basic haunting? Seriously, you looked like you were going to faint..." He noticed how worried he was sounding, and tried to mask it.

"You keep bumbling around like this and you'll get killed before you ever get the chance to do anything about the Lucy situation. I thought you guys were all bent on getting that fixed? Or were those more big words and empty threats?"