What happened

The City, he'd found, was vast, yet limited. Finite. There was a definite end to it. In some places, buildings met the edge, in other places, water or nothing. Everywhere though was a wall. A fantastically crafted wall with no holes. No breaks. It flowed over everything as if it were a naturally occuring thing. Grown instead of built. Living and breathing.

He could fly high enough to see over it, but there was no way to get over it. Like a force kept them all inside somehow, though he could see nothing there to stop him. Beyond the wall was a forest. A grand thing with enormous trees that had been given the chance to grown untouched by the ravaging hand of humans. These were what trees were supposed to look like. Had likely been before. Full, tall and healthy.

Gabriel could see glints of water between them at certain points, and beyond them it seemed, but he couldn't be completely sure. And beyond that? His eyes weren't good enough to see that far. Only God could have. And even then it might not have been seeing so much as Knowing.

Not that he was really looking for a way out. He'd been sent here for a reason, and he was sure he deserved it. Gabriel was neverthe type to try to escape punishment. Responsibility for one's own actions and all that.

The only thing to be done now was to seek out the reason. The why. Perhaps there was multiple reasons, perhaps not. He felt that he would know when it presented itself to him.

And so, Gabriel resigned himself to roam the City and do what he had to do, find what he had to find and survive in the meantime.

Max fed her key into the lock thinking very hard and looking very absent. Instead of going straight back to the manor after her little detour with Kate, she'd chosen Jesse's instead. It was closer and if she didn't tell him what was going on right away she knew she wasn't going to be able to sleep tonight. Mostly because he was the only person outside of Kate that she could tell.

She twisted the key in the lock and opened the door, not shouting out her arrival as she normally did. Instead she dropped her backpack, kicked off her shoes and started padding through the apartment in an attempt to find him on her own. She was still a little giddy with excitement over what she and Kate had decided on, but at the same time wondering to herself what Jesse was going to think. And just worrying in general. It was what she wanted to do, but denying that it was going to take a lot of work would have been stupid.

Still thinking, Max continued back, peeking into the kitchen and then looking in on Kojack before making her way to his room.

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