"History's boring," Gabriel claimed, lifting his finger, with just a little too much enthusiasm to not be tipsy. Or maybe he was just trying to work on that 'getting away from serious topics' thing. "Because of exactly that. It doesn't count as history if you damn well lived it. Then it's just your past, and who wants one of those?"

He shrugged, flapping his hand. "Should've just burned the whole lot down and rebuilt it, if y'ask me." In fact, he might have been ... indirectly ... responsible for some of those fires for that reason.