[ Reign understood a bit of what Shell was trying to say, could sense the concern and worry over this whole time difference thing. But it wasn't something either of them could change, and Reign had found that sometimes, you had to accept and try to work towards a future. Together. ]

I think living in Nysa has helped me. You too. It makes us more... comfortable in our own skin, who we truly are.

[ Sure, Reign may have come out as an abnormal back home, but the backlash hadn't been pretty either. He was just lucky he didn't get exiled to the slums.

But Nysa was a place where he didn't need to worry about such matters, except the occasional people who may have had a bad experience with vampire kinds in their own world. ]

Really? You're not saying it to placate me? [ Reign knew Shell wouldn't lie to him or sugarcoat words, but he wanted to be sure, quell the dark doubt in his heart. ]