"What? What's so funny, I don't get it." He didn't remember making any jokes here, was this a baby thing he was too mature to understand?
And decrease the amount of reaction time I have if something happens to you? That would have been the real reply to that question, but saying that felt like a personal insult to himself. He was infinitely faster than anything in this Layer at present, all the real problems had delved deeper into Hell, ask him how he knows. So that couldn't possibly be the reason. Which made the anxiety that suddenly skittered through his head and chest like ice cold fingers completely baseless and annoying.
He needed a better excuse, a more 'real' one.
"No, it's fine. It's harder to make out fine details from high up anyway, it makes more sense to walk." As you can see, Gabriel is not at all irritated by this, he's fine and normal, just like the situation he's found himself in. Fine and normal.
And he could have continued to pretend it was that way for at least a little while longer, but it'd probably been wishful thinking to the point of delusion to think that maybe Vivi wouldn't ask for a name in return. Lying was off the table, it wasn't even something that was allowed to enter his mind. It was one thing to tell himself a load of bullshit.
It was another to tell it to someone else.
"That... that's not important, right now, trust me." So, he'd do neither. No lies, no names, he'd be dead soon anyway so even insisting its lack of importance wasn't even necessarily false. "I'll bother with it later- Actually your prior idea of aerial surveillance was pretty good, I think I'm going to do that, you just keep walking ahead and I'll watch you from on high."
Better talk fast, because he's already off the ground! Oh he's still not leaving of course, but it's a lot easier to pretend he can't hear anything from fifty feet up.
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And decrease the amount of reaction time I have if something happens to you? That would have been the real reply to that question, but saying that felt like a personal insult to himself. He was infinitely faster than anything in this Layer at present, all the real problems had delved deeper into Hell, ask him how he knows. So that couldn't possibly be the reason. Which made the anxiety that suddenly skittered through his head and chest like ice cold fingers completely baseless and annoying.
He needed a better excuse, a more 'real' one.
"No, it's fine. It's harder to make out fine details from high up anyway, it makes more sense to walk." As you can see, Gabriel is not at all irritated by this, he's fine and normal, just like the situation he's found himself in. Fine and normal.
And he could have continued to pretend it was that way for at least a little while longer, but it'd probably been wishful thinking to the point of delusion to think that maybe Vivi wouldn't ask for a name in return. Lying was off the table, it wasn't even something that was allowed to enter his mind. It was one thing to tell himself a load of bullshit.
It was another to tell it to someone else.
"That... that's not important, right now, trust me." So, he'd do neither. No lies, no names, he'd be dead soon anyway so even insisting its lack of importance wasn't even necessarily false. "I'll bother with it later- Actually your prior idea of aerial surveillance was pretty good, I think I'm going to do that, you just keep walking ahead and I'll watch you from on high."
Better talk fast, because he's already off the ground! Oh he's still not leaving of course, but it's a lot easier to pretend he can't hear anything from fifty feet up.