NIKI
"I am surprised you care about such things. You seemed to have no problem being rude the last time we ran into one another." Niki cocks his head to the side, as if wondering what Vesper looks like beneath the silver jewellery and jackal smiles and demigodly swagger. He bets it's just bleached bone like everyone else, all spindly femurs and too sharp cheekbones on an empty-eyed skull.
For all of his intellectual dissection, however, the obvious way the other man's gaze rakes over his body does bring the faintest flush to his cheeks, one that might be mistaken for the heat of the evening in the right light. "I have never thought to ask them," he says of whether people find it unfortunate to run into him. "And unlike you, I did not spring from some divine womb. My mother is as human as anyone else, and twice as dead."
Feeling his lip want to curl, Niki promptly sets his cane leaning against the table where he's seated himself, turning to his notebook as if not considering Vesper worth the effort of even looking at. "That is quite the statement for someone who keeps showing up at this one little place, no matter how unwelcome he might be."
For all of his intellectual dissection, however, the obvious way the other man's gaze rakes over his body does bring the faintest flush to his cheeks, one that might be mistaken for the heat of the evening in the right light. "I have never thought to ask them," he says of whether people find it unfortunate to run into him. "And unlike you, I did not spring from some divine womb. My mother is as human as anyone else, and twice as dead."
Feeling his lip want to curl, Niki promptly sets his cane leaning against the table where he's seated himself, turning to his notebook as if not considering Vesper worth the effort of even looking at. "That is quite the statement for someone who keeps showing up at this one little place, no matter how unwelcome he might be."
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
