Kai stared out the window, motionless, emotionless.
Melville’s words from long ago had come true.
He was ice. Pure ice. No longer an ice prince, but a being leached of all care. It was a blessing, one he held close, protection from all that lay outside his frigid walls.
He looked up slowly as he heard Ezekiel’s footsteps.
The older man stopped in the doorway and watched him for a moment. Finally he approached.
“You are sure about this?” The worry in his tone was clear and Kai felt a twinge of affection.
Ezekiel had taken him in after he was released from medical care and had housed him this past month while he healed. Something that had not been approved of by Nikolaus', leading to many argument, from what Kai had heard.
Nikolaus had not been in his presence since that dreadful day
