"I'm glad- and a good thing they stuck with you." He remembered this was the one who was sent in to the cage. "Reasons I kept quiet and still in that cage was because this one told me what was going on, what you asked it to." A fingertips brushing over the little snake's head. "At least no one would bother you in the night or else they'd risk snake bites." A touch amused.

What a strange, strange hunter. "So long as you are willing, so am I." He was also willing to risk his own neck for the hunter if something came to that, but felt it was wiser to not mention that at least. Not yet/

Gabriel relaxed against him, careful as his head set against the hunter's shoulder testingly. Letting himself simply be... comfortable. "Especially around the ears."