((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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"That's not why you're a hero." She shakes her head, giving her eyes a silly little exasperated roll.

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"I haven't saved... many people. Mostly I keep to myself..." Except that he did save Rachel, and she used to call him that, and the memory stings a little, so his smile is bittersweet.

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"It's not what you do. It's what you are." She lifts her hands a little for emphasis, her expression earnest.

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"...If you say so. I've always thought actions make the man..." And he's done some things he's definitely not proud of.

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"Everybody does stupid stuff," she says, replying to feelings again. "Even Blackout."

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"Blackout...?" He blinks at her, and rubs his face briefly, trying to banish his darker thoughts for the moment. It's tricky, after they've had a hold on him for so long. "I guess so. Some of it has worse repercussions than others..."

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"Yeah. She's lots older than you, and she used to follow the Fallen. He killed suns." She tucks Blue into the front of her dress, then picks up her ball and comes to grab his hand. "Do you have a penny?"

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"I'm... sorry... I'm not sure I understood any of that." He rummages in his pocket for spare change, and comes up with a small handful. He doesn't have much cash left, but he hasn't needed it since he came to the Nexus, anyway.

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"The Fallen killed suns." She goes up on tip toe and points to a shiny copper piece, the sun-killer and Blackout forgotten. "That one. I have one too, and that's enough for puzzle bread! Come on!"

She dances in front of him, grinning and saying with her very attitude that she thinks puzzle bread will make his day.

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"...Okay." He blinks at her, a little bewildered. It's not that he doesn't believe her, it's just that there's a limit to the weird ideas he can handle in one day. She's welcome to lead him to wherever one gets puzzle bread, and he'll follow in a slightly dazed and bewildered manner. She's got his hand, after all.