#gabriel2

Some of Viv's oldest characters Susanne and Gabriel posted to her tumblr March 4, 2012. Likely posted to her deviantart in 2007 or so.

Orlaith had been ready the day after meeting Gabriel to text him, eager for the promised tour around Old Elysia and even more eager than that to ask more questions about Mairead and how he might be able to help find her. She’d shown great restraint by waiting until after Christmas. Desperation could come back to bite you on the ass on this island and she’d already shown she had plenty of that in the library. 

The time had crept by slowly, but she was here now, almost humming with anticipation as she learned about the place she might have called home in another life. Orlaith looked up at an extravagant building, etched with the same runes she had seen all over the island. “It certainly beats Treaty Towers.” Without thought she had given Gabriel more crumbs about herself. “So these runes— they’re all over every building, or just some of them?” 

Someone really should've stopped him, while he was doing a relatively good job at pacing himself so he didn't get straight up sick, Briar was not caring anymore if he was sober or remember any of the night. In fact, he preferred it if he didn't. Well, some of it, well, he didn't know it was complicated, this whole place and the people in it confused him and he was telling himself that was why he was nursing a new drink every hour or so.

He was sitting outside on a bench, enjoying the fresh air even though his attention was very much not on nature for once. Almost comically so, he was fixated on the ruffles of his half-unbuttoned shirt, fingers brushing over the soft fabric, lips pursed slightly like he was concentrating on something important. Drunk and lost in his own world, he didn't really process someone asking to sit with him before he was humming curtly and giving a nod the same length and re-focusing on what he was doing. It took a second for his slowed down thought process to register that he knew that voice, he knew it well actually.