NIKI
Arching an eyebrow at the way Vesper's expression flinches between smug enjoyment and sudden displeasure, Niki nevertheless doesn't comment on it. It's none of his business what Safrin's son finds so disagreeable - though he can hazard a guess that it's something to do with him - and so the necromancer lets his gaze fall away again to focus on the slick, muddy ground beneath him. "However frequent the oversight, I would not have come even if I had been invited," he assures Vesper.
About to summon his cane again and begin the embarrassing and painstaking ascent to his own two feet, Vesper's sudden provocation is unexpected to the point where Niki finds a laugh spilling from his lips very much without his permission. "And risk angering the goddess of the stars? Perish the thought," he mutters, turning his face up towards the other man once again.
"Besides," he says, "we both know I cannot do anything to you. If that is what you wanted to hear me say, there you have it."
About to summon his cane again and begin the embarrassing and painstaking ascent to his own two feet, Vesper's sudden provocation is unexpected to the point where Niki finds a laugh spilling from his lips very much without his permission. "And risk angering the goddess of the stars? Perish the thought," he mutters, turning his face up towards the other man once again.
"Besides," he says, "we both know I cannot do anything to you. If that is what you wanted to hear me say, there you have it."
stay your pretty eyes on course
keep the memories of who i was before
keep the memories of who i was before
