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Nicholas was concentrating on trying to peel the apple, small parts of the skin falling off here and there. It was a lot harder than it looked like when Anastasia had been peeling several apples for him, and now he was struggling with just this one! His brown eyes were too focused on the apple to notice that Anastasia had woken up, still looking at the apple before he suddenly heard the soothing melody of a giggle enter the silence of the room, and looked up to see that she was indeed awake. "Well I've never done this before..." Nicholas said as he gave her a quick glance, but concentrated right back on the apple in an attempt to peel it again. He was going to peel it... somehow, someway. Anastasia was kind enough to take the apple and knife away from him, beginning to peel the apple instead and showing him how he should do it.
"Those two words are the opposite of what I do though," Nicholas chortled as he watched with great interest what she was doing, trying his best to see what she was doing right and mimicked her hand motions with his own. It looked rather silly, but he was just trying to be as elegant and delicate as Anastasia. The only times where Nicholas would use a knife would be in self defense. There were no elegant movements while killing someone. The apple was easily peeled and he was given a slice of said apple. He pouted a little bit at how quick she had peeled it, but decided to not think about it and happily ate the apple slice instead. He just needed some practice, that was all.
He looked up at her as she seemed to be thinking out loud, and then nodded to her thanks. "It's fine. Been through worse," Nicholas simply said as it had hurt a bit to carry her, but it wasn't that bad either. It would be worse to walk around with it. "It's not healed yet, but it helped a lot that you patched it up," Nicholas thanked her back, smiling to her worried face. In all honesty he had definitely been through worse, though it did feel a bit nice to have someone concerned for him. It had been far too long since he met someone that felt that he would be missed if he died. Another reason to survive this world, and hopefully get to see peace spread across the land once more. He laughed a bit when she mentioned she could take care of herself, not to mock her, but because of how she said it. It sounded like a child that insisted she was older.
"I don't doubt it, but you can't take care of yourself if you're sleeping. People attack anyone and everyone these days. Children, women... none are spared from the cruelty of humanity," He sighed and reached out a hand to playfully ruffle through her blue strands. Who knew that Nicholas would actually miss talking with people? Did he trust her? Maybe, but he knew to take it slow. Allies were gained, not just taken. "Can you do it? It's a bit hard for me to see my side," Nicholas stated as he could not easily look to his side without turning around, and since turning around would hurt or re-open the wound, that would just make it worse.