NIKI
"A good choice." There's nothing in Niki's expression to indicate that he'd have said the same if she'd chosen gold, but between you and I, he does prefer silver. Meticulously putting away the gold pieces and working, now, with a thin and delicate silver chain alongside the leather, he's concentrating too hard to look up from his work, but he can hear the playfulness in Flora's voice.
"What an odd remark," he says, lips quirking up in a smirk. "People who are capable of being touched are also capable of doing awful things. More to the point, who said ghosts were stupid?" And yes, for the record, he'd prefer to be incorporeal and still have his mind intact, much to the surprise of absolutely nobody. "I suppose we will have to see once this cursed bracelet is completed." Flora Cursebreaker.
He does look up at the movement that suggests she might be coming in for a hug, Niki stiffening as if to protect the careful work he's doing more than himself, but then the Doubletake seems to settle. "I did not realise I had given you the impression that I did not like you, Flora," he says quietly.
Ah, but then there's the leg to talk about, Niki scrunching his nose and giving a simple shrug as he glances down at the brace. "I honestly do not remember," he tells her. "It could have been something I was born with, or it may have happened when my parents died. It was like that when I arrived at the orphanage, but I have never been able to place it. It is like an injury that did not heal, or some sort of malformation. The brace helps me to bear weight on it."
"What an odd remark," he says, lips quirking up in a smirk. "People who are capable of being touched are also capable of doing awful things. More to the point, who said ghosts were stupid?" And yes, for the record, he'd prefer to be incorporeal and still have his mind intact, much to the surprise of absolutely nobody. "I suppose we will have to see once this cursed bracelet is completed." Flora Cursebreaker.
He does look up at the movement that suggests she might be coming in for a hug, Niki stiffening as if to protect the careful work he's doing more than himself, but then the Doubletake seems to settle. "I did not realise I had given you the impression that I did not like you, Flora," he says quietly.
Ah, but then there's the leg to talk about, Niki scrunching his nose and giving a simple shrug as he glances down at the brace. "I honestly do not remember," he tells her. "It could have been something I was born with, or it may have happened when my parents died. It was like that when I arrived at the orphanage, but I have never been able to place it. It is like an injury that did not heal, or some sort of malformation. The brace helps me to bear weight on it."
stay your pretty eyes on course
keep the memories of who i was before
keep the memories of who i was before
