"That's what Neil's told me," he says. How beautiful it could be, despite the nature of living in a boarding school. Gabriel is always rather grateful that the school he attended, though private, had not been a boarding school. He'd gone home every day.

"My uncle went to California." Gabriel leans a bit more on the bar as he thinks of Brendon. Should he continue calling the man his uncle, now that he knows the truth? But it feels like something begging an explanation if he changes it now.

"Spent most of my life in Africa, then came home a while, then it was off to California. I always wondered what was so terrible about where we were that he had to be as far away as he could."