NIKI
"No? It is only quite recent, I suppose. Since the Greatwood split into all these islands." Which is still a few years, granted, but given how cut off the forest has been from the rest of Caido for much of that time - not to mention that it was overrun by the void until very recently - and Niki can see how the knowledge would be less than widespread. "And I suppose you could say that?" He tilts his head at the candles, before smiling towards Theea. "You do not need to crouch there and keep them lit. I think it is enough that the effort was made," he assures her.
As for this particular grave marker, Niki reaches out to brush his fingers across one of the spindly branches. "It is more like a habit than anything else," he admits. "Besides, you are never truly gone until there is nobody left who remembers you." And the person to whom this sapling belongs is alive, still, as long as Niki continues to come out here and pay his respects.
"Hm? I am from here - though not this part of the woods, of course. I live just outside the Sidhe Village," he explains, glancing back at the trail to make sure it hasn't gone anywhere. "I assume you are a visitor, though?"
As for this particular grave marker, Niki reaches out to brush his fingers across one of the spindly branches. "It is more like a habit than anything else," he admits. "Besides, you are never truly gone until there is nobody left who remembers you." And the person to whom this sapling belongs is alive, still, as long as Niki continues to come out here and pay his respects.
"Hm? I am from here - though not this part of the woods, of course. I live just outside the Sidhe Village," he explains, glancing back at the trail to make sure it hasn't gone anywhere. "I assume you are a visitor, though?"
my body's on the line now, I can't fight this time now
I can feel the light shine on my face
I can feel the light shine on my face
