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[GABRIEL]

[align=center][div style="width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9.4pt; line-height: 1.4;"]Gabriel had considered two potential reasonings behind the pendant: one, that it was merely a gift with a meaning only Des could understand, or two, it was a threat of some sort. In his experience, when things were delivered with names attached to them, they'd been presents from home or someone had gotten pissed off about the results of a mission. Of course, it tended to be more obvious with the latter situation, like a severed body part or a mutilated doll or just an angry note, but he couldn't rule out the possibility. He wanted it to be a gift. That would be the less stressful of the two, except when Des finally appeared -he must've woken him up, unfortunately- his reaction was not...anything like pleased embarrassment, or enthusiasm, or even confusion. The way he stared at the pendant in Gabe's talons almost had the hybrid checking to make certain he hadn't accidentally grabbed a viper. At least he could kill that. And eat it, but that wasn't the point.

Exhaling, the owl-cat shook his head. "No. Whoever they were, they must've been pretty quick to leave so soon." Maybe as quick as the way Des darted for the pendant, which Gabe didn't resist passing over, if he could even claim to have had that much control over holding it in the first place. His dark gaze remained on the mutated wolf, unreadable, tracing the way he stuffed the pendant beneath him as though to hide it. Definitely not a gift. "I'm assuming you've got an idea about them, though." His good wing fluttered a bit, before drawing in tight against his side. "You don't have to say anything about it, I won't pry. And I'm not going to take it from you, either." He even took a few steps back to prove his point, having spent enough time around the desperately territorial.

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