They're the kind of eyes that invite people to drown, he thinks. They're slick and black, like a seal he saw at the zoo once. Inscrutable and innocent and neither. He forces himself to look away.

He doesn't say what his family does on Christmas or how many of them there are, because Ignacio will probably thin he's the weird one. Gabe isn't accustomed to being ashamed of his family, but mostly he thinks he's just ashamed of himself. "Do you believe in God?" he asks instead.