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Profound? Not really anyone who had taken the time to observe would have known that fact. Anyone who had taken the time to observe this truth knew it wasn’t profound it was simply stating the obvious. There was nothing intelligent about the obvious. It was whether or you were blind to it that was the profound part of it.

He wondered in that moment what type of things Travis thought when walking that concrete jungle. He wondered if it was all the same things he considered. People who were alive protested because they were alive and don’t realize that everyone can die at any moment in time. When they do realize they are going to die, when they are dying, that when they beg for mercy.

When faced with their own mortality they call for security and cast outside another person’s life in order to save themselves from a very true fact that they hide consistently from themselves. Still Kristian nodded and just continued to smile at Travis.

When he asked about his parents Kristian genuinely looked away. It was more than a touchy subject. It was more than that. Still Kristian twirled the leaf in between his fingers. What should say? They died in an accident. They sent him away. He was disowned by them.

Except there was a part of an honor code in his heart that told him that kind of lie was wrong. So Kristian finally picked his head and looked at Travis.

“It’s more complicated than I want to get into,” Kristian told him, “But I am glad you want to be my friend.” he immediately smoothed things over with an excited glint in his eyes, “That really makes me happy. Would you like to go to the tea lounge?”