NIKI
Not having realised he'd interrupted the man in some kind of spiritual moment - and he's never met an Ancient before, such that he has no idea of the nuance that lives within the flick of a tail - Niki carefully manoeuvres his way close enough that they might not have to call to each other to properly speak. And as the stranger straightens up he has to lift his head slightly to meet his gaze (everyone he has met lately has been so tall), offering a polite if not slightly chilly smile in response to one adorned in very sharp teeth.
"Apologies to interrupt you, by the way," he adds belatedly, having been too cold and too glad to see someone else to have considered an excuse me. "Oh-- well, I do not want you to be lost as well," he says; he doesn't know if the man is joking, but for someone who has grown up in these woods, he knows very well that they might also take umbridge with the Ancient if he accompanies Niki on the way through their midst. Glancing past him, briefly, to the crimson lichen in the water, he nods towards it. "A curious phenomenon, no?"
"Apologies to interrupt you, by the way," he adds belatedly, having been too cold and too glad to see someone else to have considered an excuse me. "Oh-- well, I do not want you to be lost as well," he says; he doesn't know if the man is joking, but for someone who has grown up in these woods, he knows very well that they might also take umbridge with the Ancient if he accompanies Niki on the way through their midst. Glancing past him, briefly, to the crimson lichen in the water, he nods towards it. "A curious phenomenon, no?"
stay your pretty eyes on course
keep the memories of who i was before
keep the memories of who i was before
