stay your pretty eyes on course
"Your whole country," Niki echoes, glancing from the sprawling marble to the rich wood grain and then to the gloomy downpour outside. The library is an exercise in extravagance, it's true, especially compared to the little reading nooks where he has spent his time, but when glancing at the rain, it also seems strangely cozy. "Do you miss it?" he asks before he can stop himself. "Outlanders are a rarity nowadays, but I always imagined it would be very strange, to be uprooted from one world and dropped into another.".
Not another city, or even another country.
A different world entirely.
Perhaps that's why he keeps his thoughts localised to only one piece of furniture, giving a humble little shrug in response to Sunjata's compliment. "Thank you," he replies automatically, before easing himself down into the chair and carefully propping a heel on the footstool. "I do not know why, but I expected to fall right through it," he admits, laughing under his breath. "And this is all because of Frey?"
Not another city, or even another country.
A different world entirely.
Perhaps that's why he keeps his thoughts localised to only one piece of furniture, giving a humble little shrug in response to Sunjata's compliment. "Thank you," he replies automatically, before easing himself down into the chair and carefully propping a heel on the footstool. "I do not know why, but I expected to fall right through it," he admits, laughing under his breath. "And this is all because of Frey?"
Niki
I guess I never really faced my fears before
