Skulduggery had often wondered, back at Landel's, why Gabe was so interested in helping him right from the beginning. Not just interested, either, but happy to. Willing to the point of discomfort. Skulduggery had assumed, like he always did, that knowing the answer to that question would be an end in itself, a solution to the mystery, making things less complicated. Finding out that Gabriel was an Archangel did anything except make things less complicated, but...
Knowing the answer now was only confusing the issue anyway. Particularly when Gabe didn't try to hide how proud he was of Skulduggery's answer, when his smile radiated with something so pure that it made Skulduggery look away; and when even that didn't seem to help the broadcast of those same sentiments, there wasn't much more Skulduggery could do but sit there and accept them. Gabe's wing curled closer; and even though Skulduggery knew a great deal more about why it was there than he used to, he felt just as lost within the warmth as he'd ever been.
The distraction was a huge help, even though Skulduggery's response was simple. "No."
He wouldn't joke about that. Gabe was more than powerful enough to handle it - hell, Skulduggery was already trusting the Archangel with his true name. None of the others were close to powerful enough. None of the others ever had to learn control on the scale Skulduggery did, and he wasn't trusting any of them with such proximity to the darkness of Vile.
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Knowing the answer now was only confusing the issue anyway. Particularly when Gabe didn't try to hide how proud he was of Skulduggery's answer, when his smile radiated with something so pure that it made Skulduggery look away; and when even that didn't seem to help the broadcast of those same sentiments, there wasn't much more Skulduggery could do but sit there and accept them. Gabe's wing curled closer; and even though Skulduggery knew a great deal more about why it was there than he used to, he felt just as lost within the warmth as he'd ever been.
The distraction was a huge help, even though Skulduggery's response was simple. "No."
He wouldn't joke about that. Gabe was more than powerful enough to handle it - hell, Skulduggery was already trusting the Archangel with his true name. None of the others were close to powerful enough. None of the others ever had to learn control on the scale Skulduggery did, and he wasn't trusting any of them with such proximity to the darkness of Vile.