"You met Gabriel?" asks Andrew, giving up any pretense whatsoever of not having been listening. "What'd you figure he was? I've only seen him in the, ah, dreamspace. Seemed nice enough, but I doubt he's human."

He practically runs into the back of Daine, not seeing that she's stopped. In halting, he spills a little of his cocoa on the floor, and winces before giving the mage a curious look. "Don't you want to see what's behind door number one?" he asks, reaching out to turn the knob himself.