This, evidently, is news -- or at least some part of it is. Gabriel's eyes widen in clear surprise.

(There's a flash of what might be hope in them, too.)

"I-- well." He takes a careful breath, then lets it out again. "Some are, yes."

He's thinking quickly, trying to remember if there's any pattern to the news of changing opinions that's been occasionally drifting in from the Rim.