[Gabriel gave a low whistle at that.] Well, never hurts to try something new, does it?

[There was that flash of a grin, even if it had been a long.. long time since he or Jack had gotten up to something like that. Here?.. well, maybe at some point they'd both need to loosen the hell up before they did something far more drastic than a conspiracy wall in the basement.

Besides going around town questioning people and diving in to the mines and all.

His head tipped, because he couldn't disagree, corner of his mouth twitching.] Guess neither of us know how to do it any other way.

[Chickens. Bees. Corn. Fruit trees. The possibilities of things to come are...

Things.

Gabriel snorted, a hand going over his mouth because—] The cruelest of diversions.