"Hey, my games were fun!" Gabriel paused a moment to breathe and smirked. "Sometimes. Mostly if you were me. Or if you played them. It's not my fault people kept trying to cheat or break the rules."

Not that he'd have played a game on Re-l. Sure, she had attitude, but she wasn't inherently a dick. Not inherently. He didn't think. It was hard to say with so much static between him and her soul.

"If the questions were that easy, how is it the proxy never lost?" Gabriel asked, half bemused and fully intending on ignoring that last question, just because it hit some raw spots he was trying to ignore. He sidled forward and his foot hit a lump or a pebble in the ground, he wasn't sure which. It didn't matter anyway, because either way it made him glance down and after a day of climbing Gabriel finally got his glimpse of the ground.

The sound of the professor hitting the pavement from three stories up rang in his head and the blood drained from his face. This was much, much higher than that. With effort Gabriel tore his gaze away, back up at Re-l, and he smiled weakly. "So y'ever heard of an angel who might be scared of heights?"