[Gabriel pauses and stretches an arm across the steps to grasp the bannister, keeping most of his body behind William just in case he teeters back.]

You'd be surprised how little it takes to kill someone. But I'm not about to make you paranoid.

[Be it alcohol or falling down the steps, it doesn't take much of anything to kill humans. He'd rather not have the boy locked up in his room more than he'd already been for the first few months.]

It may not seem like it now but things will get better with time. You just have to take it one day at a time.

[He's trying to be encouraging at least.]

Wonderland just happened to have dumped a lot of shit on you recently and no one can blame you for not handling it all that well. Some days it beats you and you need to drink to sleep properly.

[Certainly not taken from experience at all. Nope.]