Well pardon my manners, just something about you turns me to a savage
"Oh yeah, I heard about that," he says perhaps foolishly, because there'd be only one source that would have told him, but Kaisel isn't attempting to scheme or hide anything. He's not proficient at it on a good day, and though plenty of the things he didn't share before hadn't been ones he thought he had to, he'd make no move to start deliberately hiding anything now. Even if it was part of the advice he'd been given, to be more thoughtful before he speaks, to consider the weight of his answers. He'd received a lot of advice lately though. "Congrats," he smiles, and means it this time compared to the more hollow one he'd offered at her initial news of redecorating. Hell, seems he'd been the only that cared they'd taken it over from Flora if she'd so willingly give it over, sentimental for all the wrong, dumbest reason apparently. "A full-fledge business woman now." Because now that it's hers, she's more than a bartender, she's an owner.
Then, perhaps a bit hopeful for her response, that there'd be a future to look forward to this in, he suggests, "still need to come by and really appreciate all the redesigning you did. Was a little distracted last time I was there."
That hope continues to curl, daring to bloom a bit more solidly as she takes his present and actually seems to admire it, genuinely. Something tight in him eases, just a touch, to know he'd at least managed to do something right after a barrage of mistakes he didn't realize he'd been making until he was drowning in the stream of them. "Busy," he says with a shaky laugh, ruffling the hair on the back of his neck, the word not dishonest but a better choice than saying terrible. "I decided to stay in King's End. I'm guessing you heard that Stormbreak is free of the void now?" It seems like big news, to him, but maybe less important to everyone else, so he looks up at her for confirmation. "I miss home, don't get me wrong, but I don't think that's what I need right now. So I've been training, and focusing on helping people in need." A low breath then, his hand dropping limp to his side from his neck.
"I saw your mom." Not hiding things though, right, even though he hasn't exactly laid it out that he kissed Flora again. "Didn't go well," he winces. One truth bomb at a time.
Then, perhaps a bit hopeful for her response, that there'd be a future to look forward to this in, he suggests, "still need to come by and really appreciate all the redesigning you did. Was a little distracted last time I was there."
That hope continues to curl, daring to bloom a bit more solidly as she takes his present and actually seems to admire it, genuinely. Something tight in him eases, just a touch, to know he'd at least managed to do something right after a barrage of mistakes he didn't realize he'd been making until he was drowning in the stream of them. "Busy," he says with a shaky laugh, ruffling the hair on the back of his neck, the word not dishonest but a better choice than saying terrible. "I decided to stay in King's End. I'm guessing you heard that Stormbreak is free of the void now?" It seems like big news, to him, but maybe less important to everyone else, so he looks up at her for confirmation. "I miss home, don't get me wrong, but I don't think that's what I need right now. So I've been training, and focusing on helping people in need." A low breath then, his hand dropping limp to his side from his neck.
"I saw your mom." Not hiding things though, right, even though he hasn't exactly laid it out that he kissed Flora again. "Didn't go well," he winces. One truth bomb at a time.
Kaisel
Got me running in circles around you to please you, I do what I need to
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
