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[gabriel_tam]

In the last few weeks, he's been keeping hours that start before dawn and end deep into the darkest hours of the night. He looks it, too, enough so that a few media reporters have inquired.

When they do, Gabriel just smiles and tells them that some things are worth giving up a little sleep for.

Still, he knows he can't keep this pace up forever. He doesn't care-- it doesn't matter, as long as he can keep going long enough. Which means, of course, that he's got to find at least a little more time to rest, and soon.

With that in mind, Gabriel brings a sheaf of documents with him to Milliways, and settles at a side booth to review them. If he can get a few hours' work done here instead, then he can spend those extra hours sleeping back in New Mayfair.

Or so he hopes.

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[gabriel_tam]

She is, actually -- but not in the way she may be thinking, Gabriel's quite sure.

He shrugs, and offers an easy, cordial smile.

"Nothing to apologize for."

[gonna_live]

"Except that I'm thinkin' you might like at least an hour or two out of your day where you're not thinkin' about this."

[gabriel_tam]

This time his smile's ruefully amused.

"When it's over."

[gonna_live]

"Reckon so." She echoes his smile, and pulls her cup and her book closer. "And in that case...reckon I ought to leave you to it."

(The book is a hardcover. A nice one. There's no title on the outside, and no dust jacket.

It's the Odyssey.

A gift, from Andronicus Crowley.)

[gabriel_tam]

"I'd like to deny that, but as you can see--"

Gabriel gestures to the papers.

"--I'm afraid I do still have a great deal of work to do this evening."

A pause, and then,

"Another time soon, though, perhaps?"

[gonna_live]

She's not quite sure how much of that's politics, and how much of that's...

...honest.

(Since, as she told Peter, politics is the fine art of not telling it like it is.)

But most of it was good. Up to a point. And he did play her straight.

Leave it to him, maybe. Kaylee grins. "'Course. You're the one with the schedule shot to hell -- send a line whenever you want."