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[un_fallen]

It took a jolt to get Raguel to leave Southdown. The need to find out what happened had been growing for a while, but it was a half-heard conversation between Aziraphael and Gabriel Tam that finally got him to do it. There are still more questions he didn't want to ask the angel, and the longer he stayed, the harder it became to ask them. He needs some face time with the Senator.

He's planted himself in the crowd watching Tam's latest speech to calm the paranoia over yet another Reaver attack on a settlement, but he isn't really watching it. He's thinking, talking to himself - and if we are completely honest - justifying his absence from Persephone.

In his opinion, tracking is a pleasant change from moping and doing nothing at the abbey. That was necessary, but now it's time for action, if action is possible. Someone planned this. Someone pulled the trigger. Gabriel is another step toward getting there.

And once he's found the one behind it, maybe then he'll allow himself to go back.

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[gabriel_tam]

The once-standard media conferences at each of the stops on his -- tour, he decides, for lack of a better term -- have gotten a great deal more difficult since the Amesbury Incident.

Gabriel Tam deals with aplomb, as much as he can manage, which is no insignificant amount. He shakes hands with the town's mayor, smiling for the camera, and it's thanks to years of training that he doesn't flinch when he spots a familiar face in the crowd out of the corner of his eye.