The wet clothing was uncomfortable, yes, but it was merely discomfort, nothing that would serve to harm him badly. Keisuke trotted after Niall as he hurried in the opposite direction, it wasn’t hard to keep up with him though, and found moving at the slight hurried pace to be rather uncomfortable. Kei only paused when the small bird jumped from the boy’s grasp and scurried over to him Kei felt his heart rate pick up again, the small little bird was incredible. The living generally feared him, the phoenix’s past life had feared him too.
Kei bent down to pick up the bird, with his gloves secured he felt much more comfortable handling the bird and he let out a sigh as the small creature nestled into his chest. It was a comfortable warmth that made him relaxed and content with where he was. It was unusual to be content with anything really, he was more of a hot mess of being hyperaware of his surroundings in order to minimalize the causalities, he almost smiled as the little bird dried his shirt.
He looked up when Niall started speaking about naming the phoenix. It did make sense, he had been referring the creature as little bird in his head, and he supposed that wasn’t really a proper name. He looked up at the branches overhead, peering at the tiny bits of sunlight that tinkled through the leaves. The little bird cooed into his chest and he sighed again before looking down. “How about Eos? She is the goddess of the dawn and supposedly beautiful.”
The real Eos was one of the kindess goddess he had ever met. She was as gentle as the first light of day the hues he bore all soft pinks and golds and though the phoenix was a little more fiery in color a beautiful name fit a beautiful creature. The little bird looked up at him as he spoke to her. “Yeah, Eos? You like that name, Eos? Good girl!”
He cooed to the little phoenix as she looked up at his with wide eyes bordered by licks of small flames. Kei continued to talk to little Eos as they walked towards where Niall had placed his gear. As he talked to her she would chirp back responses as if they were having a real conversation. The two were knee deep in a heated debate on how to correctly sow a rice crop when Niall stopped walking. Kei looked up to see the silver haired boy slinging a heavy looking backpack over his shoulders.
As the boy started speaking of Evergard Keisuke felt his shoulders sag ever slightly, that town was in the opposite direction of the door he was travelling too, and worse, if Niall were to take the paths he was thinking off they would go straight through the village where he had just murdered an entire family and then some. He looked down at little Eos, the phoenix chirped happily, and the scratched the top of her head.
“I go wherever the wind takes me, if it means staying with Eos, I’d be happy to accompany you.” Kei felt dread in his stomach though at the idea of having to face the people of a village who he had just made suffer a substantial lose, he didn’t want to face the aftermath of what he had done.