((For Silver))

[1stmacleod]

Kairos is very nice, and he's glad of the place to stay, but after five years of wandering Connor gets restless easily. His nightmares are back, if not as bad as they used to be, so he's restless and tired, which isn't a good combination. Teaching and sparring with Jelani helps occupy his time, though, and so does cooking for Kairos. He still has too much spare time, so he sits on the fringes of the Nexus, and watches, and puts off going home to his own world.

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"Maybe." She tries darting in the other direction, replying to his feelings as she does so. "But you don't need to be scared of her. We make sure she gets lots of food, and I told her that people are friends and the best way to get food from them is to be cute."

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He shifts the other way, but not too quickly. He wants to field the ball from flying at anybody else around, but he doesn't want to make her feel too outmatched.

"I still think I prefer the kind of kitty that's a little... smaller." And less tentacley. And without a reputation for killing adventurers.

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"Aww. Guess you wouldn't like Deedee either, then." She tries to boot the ball between his feet, her fine hair flying with the motion.

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He has to go sideways to catch it, but he does manage to field it from flying off anywhere unexpected, and pauses before giving it a gentle kick back. "Tell me about Deedee anyway?"

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"She's a Changeling like Aoife, only she wasn't a human before she got changed." The ball is blocked and sent back in the space of a heartbeat. "She was a little orange kitty. Now she's a big orange kitty that can think talk."

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She's better than he expected, but he still catches and kicks it back gently, making it easy on her. "She sounds nice enough. I don't... mind anyone who can talk, no matter what shape they are, I guess." This hasn't really been tested yet, but sooner or later it will be.

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That makes her stop short and give him a funny look. "Kitty can talk too. Just not with words."

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"Probably not anyway I could understand...?" Although at this point, he's not sure of anything, anymore.

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Deep thought furrows her little brow, and then she goes after the ball again. "Yeah. I guess not. The Waltzes and Mages can't hear her either."

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"I'm pretty ordinary, for an immortal. Just a nobody. I probably couldn't either."

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"You aren't nobody." The rebuke is stern. And the ball is now going away from Connor with all the incredibly surprising speed that small children sometimes possess.

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"I just mean... I'm not important in the grand scheme of things... oop!" He has to go dashing after the ball, and barely manages to field it before it goes into the general Nexus crowd. It's a much longer kick to get it back to her, this time.

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"Who told you that?" She runs to meet the ball and then scoots to the side with it as she kicks it from foot to foot.

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"What? Nobody, I guess. Nobody's ever told me otherwise, either, though." He shrugs, because being nobody is useful sometimes, when you're an immortal. It means he can slip under the radar when he needs to. Usually.