[SE] the road less travelled

NIKI

Niki doesn't need to consider Flora's question for long, the boy smiling and shaking his head. "I do not think so, no," he says. "What happened with The Family was something we were all dealing with, to some extent. I think that made it a shared sort of hurt, even if some people were affected much more deeply than others. This is the sort of personal that only you can know." In his very limited (read: non-existent) experience, anyway.

"But at least you have a future you can build too, right? With Kaisel, hopefully?" he adds. "It is not all terrible, even if it will take time to process." Almost instinctively his eyes flick towards Kaiholo and the harbour, if only because he knows it's where Flora's gaze often turns when it comes to this subject.

"If the spirit in my bedroom is a cat then it is remarkably dexterous," he adds with a laugh. "It has started to lay out my clothes in the morning."

It's remarkably easy to imagine their little trip up to Stormbreak, Niki already wondering at the region overhead wreathed in clouds and what their time up their might entail. He doesn't circle it on a mental calendar, but he will be making a physical note of it when they get back. "Then that sounds perfect to me."

stay your pretty eyes on course
keep the memories of who i was before

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