I see your true colours shining through
He laughed, unable to do anything but agree with the man's words. He was indeed in an ice puddle, an activity he never would've imagined himself doing - but then, he'd never experienced cosmic sunburn either, never had a reason to want to do it. He hadn't quite caught on that the other person was an Ascended, hadn't quite picked up on the implications of sunburn potentially affecting an Ascended worse than a normal man."Good to know." That he would get used to how this world worked eventually was a comfort, even if he doubted it for now. He'd adjusted to becoming Attuned pretty quickly, frankly loving it - though admittedly the whole empathic link that was the bond still startled him. But he was well practiced at reigning in his emotions, at hiding them away, shoving them to the side to focus on the here and now. Controlling what he let out through the attuned bond was just another aspect of that skill - though with some he didn't have to control them, to hide them, free to feel himself, as well as the other.
Surprise transformed his face as he heard about another who came from the nineties, and then heard that Nate was from the eighties. "Damn," he murmured in awe, knowing that he could expect it and yet being amazed by it all the same. "December twenty-eighteen," he said softly, goosebumps rising along his skin, not just from the feeling of a cool breeze along his burnt skin.
so don't be afraid, to let them show
CHULANE
