Shivering, Gabriel walked off of the bus into the cool winter air. The moment his feet touched the cobblestone street, he found himself caught between smiling and grimacing. "So this is Orion's Gate. Wish I could have gotten further from Dad, but this is the best I can do. Thank you Grandma." He grabbed the amber talisman, a gift from his mother's mother that he had only gotten two weeks ago. Eight years after she died. 

Turning about, he realized he was in a shopping distract. There were lines of shops and each side of the street, leading toward a round dead end where the bus had let him off. The smell of baking bread and cinnamon left him smiling, emanating from the first shop. A bakery called Maddie's Breads with purple flowers in the front... 

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'Those flowers should be dead, it's late November?' He shook off his thoughts. "I'm starving, who cares." 

And he dove into the shop, eager to get some food and finally start up his life, free of his father, family and foster care. 

He was an adult now... it was time he made something of himself.