Gabriel stood there for several seconds, unable to move his gaze away from the direction the boy had gone.
For a moment, he wondered if the memory fragment had broken. Maybe the scene had glitched. Maybe what he saw was not truly the young king looking at him, but just a flaw in the memory showing something that never happened.
However, when Gabriel walked closer to Torin and Aston, that thought quickly faded.
He stopped directly in front of young Torin but got no reaction.
Gabriel lifted his hand and waved it once in front of the young man's face, but there was still no response. When Aston walked forward to retrieve a broken part of the monster's horn, his shoulder passed straight through Gabriel's body as if Gabriel was not there.
Gabriel looked down at himself and frowned slightly.
"So it was not the memory."
