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Despite how sure he'd once been that solitude was his greatest companion, Gabby could no longer remember how to live on a day to day basis without the assured presence that everything around him now reminded him of Efflo. His world of blue and ice was never quite real unless there was something green reflecting within; just a gentle nudge or reminder to inform him that yes, he'd integrated another being into his life. He was so wound around the boil, in fact, that when Efflo wasn't in the room, he could sense a very physical loss.

It disturbed him on several intimate levels.

Gabby's eyes, which had been reading the same line in a book over and over for almost an hour and never quite digesting a word, now fell on the jacket that was lobbed over the edge of the bed. They narrowed, and he closed the book with a hard smack, then reached out to pick up the haphazardly hung jacket and fold it properly.

"It took you long enough." Gabby huffed out, his icy voice giving off no hint of the lonely need he'd suffered through while Efflo was gone. "I've almost gone and forgotten all about you."

As if that would ever, ever be possible.

"Who are you, again? And more importantly, did you clean your boots before you dropped them on our floor?"