` ✦ ° ┊ we are all living in a dream ﹙ o, meteor shower ﹚

[GABRIEL]

[align=center][div style="width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9.4pt; line-height: 1.4;"]Gabriel had never really seen a meteor shower before. He knew what they were because he didn't live beneath a rock, but he'd never witnessed one in person, and seeing one now- it didn't really inspire any kind of peace in him. He didn't feel at one with himself, or some other meditative tranquility shit, and he certainly didn't find any romanticism in watching bits fall from space and fucking up whatever they hit. Maybe they were pretty, in a destructive way; he just preferred to find beauty in the violence of other things, like unfurling buds and growth. Not this. Not the stars, which had never drawn Gabe's stare, because it had never mattered to him what was up there when everything he did was down here with the sorts of people who couldn't afford to stargaze or fuel pipe dreams. Kids like Laz, left at a young age to wander the streets and form hierarchies of ruthlessness for survival, kids who hadn't given a damn about the stars either because they couldn't put food in their bellies.

The owl's dark, glittering gaze pinpointed both Onision and Titan, but Gabriel didn't bother saying anything to them. They looked to be enjoying themselves, and he knew it was best to just go back inside, where he couldn't see the sky.

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