[Despite the fact that he's read enough of Ash's conversations by now to know that he's far from normal or, well, even probably stable, Cadel doesn't mind him. He's consistent and hasn't been the least bit threatening to anyone that hasn't returned the threat, much less toward Cadel, and that makes him something that Cadel understands a lot better than the ordinary people who are just simply nice to him.
There's a familiarity to talking to Ash that is sometimes bad and sometimes good but is, at the very least, something he can handle, in a dwindling list of things he can handle. As time goes on and he doesn't go home and none of his family (or Sonja) magically show up after him, Cadel's own stability has already started to fray a little at the edges. It leads to some perhaps muddled moral choices, like starting to hack into everything he can find now that he's put his computer together.
So leaving the den of his new apartment to meet up with Ash at Nonah's swear in festival is almost a relief, a change of pace, at the same time that it uncomfortably reminds him of just how homesick he really is.
Cadel sighs and pokes around on his phone some more as he waits, others buzzing around the entry gate, forming their own groups, washing around him in waves. His tendency to show up early for everything out of paranoia is showing itself again. Most people would be playing a game or texting someone if they were fiddling with their phone. Cadel is remotely checking on his new computer's security in between doing web site coding for work. He's quite absorbed.]
Ash
There's a familiarity to talking to Ash that is sometimes bad and sometimes good but is, at the very least, something he can handle, in a dwindling list of things he can handle. As time goes on and he doesn't go home and none of his family (or Sonja) magically show up after him, Cadel's own stability has already started to fray a little at the edges. It leads to some perhaps muddled moral choices, like starting to hack into everything he can find now that he's put his computer together.
So leaving the den of his new apartment to meet up with Ash at Nonah's swear in festival is almost a relief, a change of pace, at the same time that it uncomfortably reminds him of just how homesick he really is.
Cadel sighs and pokes around on his phone some more as he waits, others buzzing around the entry gate, forming their own groups, washing around him in waves. His tendency to show up early for everything out of paranoia is showing itself again. Most people would be playing a game or texting someone if they were fiddling with their phone. Cadel is remotely checking on his new computer's security in between doing web site coding for work. He's quite absorbed.]