Perhaps it was because Gabe didn't know the players in this game all too well, but the Archangel didn't feel the shock of this apparent revelation. Rather, he frowned in thought. "That'd do it, all right. Ain't a whole lotta people who can make a man do something, other than a daddy."

He grimaced. "Got a nice family there. You meet such interesting people, Skul. Now I'm just wonderin' why they're bothering with the Engine--we've really gotta give it a better name--if Dusk could run rampant all over the Sanctuary without it."