( it's a dramatic demonstration, but a very effective one. it makes sense then, if nick's energy is in a constant state of wanting to reach out to things and encourage them to thrive and cain's presence causes them to decay, that he would feel so at odds with nick. it's not just the millenias old energy, he's at odds with nick's very state of existence.

and yet, he's very polite. and quite nice really, so nick curbs his look of stunned shock and instead replaces it with something more reflective. )

I grow things on the sidewalk, but point made. Do you just live off jerky?

( nick is a vegetarian. this is going to be a hard friendship. )

Three months, yeah. There's people who will just sign like...contract only type deals. You don't have to be friends or live with each other or anything. That freaked me out a bit though. I guess it's different if you're a dom.