NIKI
Niki raises his glass at that, as if to assure Flora that he will certainly keep some ghost-related shenanigans in his back pocket specifically for conversations with Kai. On the faces-on-underwear front, though, he's still staunchly against it. "Twenty percent of the time is still twenty percent too much," he remarks, voice muffled behind another sip from his glass. "But you have more experience of leadership than I do. And of Kai."
But as her cheeks flush he realises he might have said too much and far too bluntly, the necromancer giving her a warm nudge of his arm. "Perhaps she needed your advice on what to do?" he ventures, backtracking even without fully believing his own words. "You are right, though. I think it is always better to know where you stand." With friends or otherwise, and if Niki's eyes are drawn fleetingly to a particularly tall demigod, it's a coincidence and nothing more.
As for Colt, that's a little easier at least. "Please kick my cane out from under me if I am speaking out of turn, but maybe she was not thinking of you at all. Not in a malicious way, just... her focus was on herself and her future. You know?" Not on Flora's feelings or future.
"Ah, but that seems to make less sense," he offers in consolation at Sohalia's reasons behind refusing a council position. "Either it is a merit to her to join either council, or it is a handout either way, surely?"
But as her cheeks flush he realises he might have said too much and far too bluntly, the necromancer giving her a warm nudge of his arm. "Perhaps she needed your advice on what to do?" he ventures, backtracking even without fully believing his own words. "You are right, though. I think it is always better to know where you stand." With friends or otherwise, and if Niki's eyes are drawn fleetingly to a particularly tall demigod, it's a coincidence and nothing more.
As for Colt, that's a little easier at least. "Please kick my cane out from under me if I am speaking out of turn, but maybe she was not thinking of you at all. Not in a malicious way, just... her focus was on herself and her future. You know?" Not on Flora's feelings or future.
"Ah, but that seems to make less sense," he offers in consolation at Sohalia's reasons behind refusing a council position. "Either it is a merit to her to join either council, or it is a handout either way, surely?"
stay your pretty eyes on course
keep the memories of who i was before
keep the memories of who i was before
