NIKI
Niki's mind - a seamless glaze of turning mechanisms and quiet understanding - seems to heat and simmer at even the first syllables that spill from Vesper's lips. It doesn't seize so much as it kicks into the next gear, sharpening and honing itself for what the boy evidently sees as a forthcoming fight. "Did you stand around the corner practicing that before you came out?" he wonders, his voice dry and quiet as ever as he straightens (as much as Niki straightens up anyway) away from the telescope.
"I was watching for starwhales," he says, gesturing helpfully towards the dazzling spray of stars overhead as if Vesper might not have spotted that it's nighttime on a stargazing deck. He doesn't grace the demigod's remark about his lab with a response - because yes he has one, and no it hasn't short-circuited, but as far as Niki knows that's his business and his alone.
"Why are you here? Felt like being the tallest person around, so you came to bother the Fae again?"
"I was watching for starwhales," he says, gesturing helpfully towards the dazzling spray of stars overhead as if Vesper might not have spotted that it's nighttime on a stargazing deck. He doesn't grace the demigod's remark about his lab with a response - because yes he has one, and no it hasn't short-circuited, but as far as Niki knows that's his business and his alone.
"Why are you here? Felt like being the tallest person around, so you came to bother the Fae again?"
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
