[ Having volunteered an otherwise exhausting amount of personal information Nate simply watches him, listens, opens his mouth at least once and shuts it again because his many questions - sudden, and numerous - spawning about the subject should be forced back down, and does his best to understand the connection.
It's a lot to absorb, more so when Stephen begins to glow and Nate's brow furrows at the small object that floats out like something from a bad, science-fiction B movie from the fifties. Except the effects are a little more impressive, and it's something he can actually touch. A kind of strange ring, some piece of jewelry in a style that looks vaguely familiar but only because of his wide exposure to various artifacts.
Stephen doesn't have to tell him twice. Ever tactile, Nate reaches out curiously without thinking and pulls it from the air.
The metal is warm and it feels a little bit like stepping off a building, a sensation with which Nate is regrettably familiar. Everything that follows is a flash in the pan, experience shockingly similar to what he already knows from personal experience, paired with a hunger for knowledge that Nate sees in a different light reflected in somebody else's mirror.
It's dangerous. Tempting. He's felt that before. Lightly: ]
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It's a lot to absorb, more so when Stephen begins to glow and Nate's brow furrows at the small object that floats out like something from a bad, science-fiction B movie from the fifties. Except the effects are a little more impressive, and it's something he can actually touch. A kind of strange ring, some piece of jewelry in a style that looks vaguely familiar but only because of his wide exposure to various artifacts.
Stephen doesn't have to tell him twice. Ever tactile, Nate reaches out curiously without thinking and pulls it from the air.
The metal is warm and it feels a little bit like stepping off a building, a sensation with which Nate is regrettably familiar. Everything that follows is a flash in the pan, experience shockingly similar to what he already knows from personal experience, paired with a hunger for knowledge that Nate sees in a different light reflected in somebody else's mirror.
It's dangerous. Tempting. He's felt that before. Lightly: ]
Oh.