QUOTE : Gabriel groaned. “Is this what my eternity will be? Empty of love and companionship, and filled with greedy damsels?”<br /><br />“It could be worse,” Tristan said. “It could be filled with those who enter your house without knocking and eat your food.”<br /><br />Nathaniel shoved a very deliberate piece of bread into his mouth and looked at Gabriel. “You have me as a companion. What more could you want from eternity?” He chewed with his mouth open.<br /><br />“Something prettier,” Gabriel said, “and less disgusting.”<br /><br />Nathaniel swallowed. “If it helps, I’ve never been in love either. I’m beginning to think true love might not exist.”<br /><br />Tristan turned his eyes back to his dagger with an amused expression.<br /><br />Gabriel sighed. “I am doomed.”<br /><br />“No,” Nathaniel said. “You are cursed.”<br /><br />“Are they not the same thing?”<br /><br />“Not at all. Doomed means there is no hope. Cursed means you will have to struggle to find hope, then struggle to keep it, then struggle to undo said curse with the hope that you have kept.”<br /><br />Gabriel blinked. “Being doomed sounds less taxing.”<br /><br />“Indeed.” Nathaniel smiled.