"Only if I get to ask them right back," Gabe counter-offered, settling their elbows more comfortably together. Because she was bright and quick and... and chirpy, like some audaciously-plumaged tropical bird, and Gabe was a little caught by just how interesting she and William would have been together. "But you can go first, because I'm a gentleman." Really. No matter what you might have heard.
"This way," he declared, waving his other hand down the corridor not entirely at random. He hadn't had a where to be going, but he was flexible and happy to amble in a generally downward direction. If it came to it, he just about had his workroom in a fit state to receive non-fastidious visitors.