[It was subtle, but the shift in his stance and the first of those little questions kids had anytime something weird landed in their lap made Nicholas slowly relax, too, before he gave a little smile. As long as the weird-but-strangely-apt kid questions kept coming, it meant, hopefully, that the fear was fading. He could deal with that as long as Vash had more questions to ask.]
Yep, about as dead as you can get. No, I'm not out here. I'm buried a few hundred iles away. [Not that there probably weren't quite a lot of bones buried beneath this house, if they'd been able to recover the bodies to bury them. But he'd been far away from July when it went down and too young to boot.] I was following-...my friend. Watchin' over 'im, I mean, when that big earthquake that brought everyone here happened a few months ago. Got dropped in the middle of the desert not far from here and found your mom hangin' the laundry out to dry, and just...stuck around. Figured this was as likely a place as any for my friend to show up, so I stayed.
[There were so many details left out, but he figured it was better to leave it a little vague than to drop the fact that the friend he'd been waiting for was another of him, when he was much older, and trying to explain that he'd known his mom because she'd been the first soul he'd encountered in the afterlife would probably be less than productive.]
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Yep, about as dead as you can get. No, I'm not out here. I'm buried a few hundred iles away. [Not that there probably weren't quite a lot of bones buried beneath this house, if they'd been able to recover the bodies to bury them. But he'd been far away from July when it went down and too young to boot.] I was following-...my friend. Watchin' over 'im, I mean, when that big earthquake that brought everyone here happened a few months ago. Got dropped in the middle of the desert not far from here and found your mom hangin' the laundry out to dry, and just...stuck around. Figured this was as likely a place as any for my friend to show up, so I stayed.
[There were so many details left out, but he figured it was better to leave it a little vague than to drop the fact that the friend he'd been waiting for was another of him, when he was much older, and trying to explain that he'd known his mom because she'd been the first soul he'd encountered in the afterlife would probably be less than productive.]