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"I know, I'm sorry." Hadrian smiled a bit meekly, "I sort of tried to make it a habit, or I'll always forget."
He tilted his head slightly to the side, "But...you're right, really. I don't suppose it matters if I have to explain it sometimes."

Hadrian was definitely not used to being called patient. And frankly being looked up to by anyone was a bit new to him as well. He had been taken aback when Burgundia had proclaimed that he should go out and teach, but the way Galatea put it was alot less...odd.
"Thanks." He smiled a little behind the strand of his hair that had fallen across his face when he looked down, "I don't really think a question can be silly if you really want to know the answer."

"That sounds like a good way to think about things." Hadrian admitted, tucking his hair back behind his ear, leaving his face open and unshielded again.
I took him a minute to figure out the 'questions don't have answers but that doesn't mean they shouldn't' bit. But when he did, it seemed to make pretty good sense.

Hadrian was hoping that the Captain took her resposibility as Galatea's 'most important person in the world' seriously. It was just that whenever Galatea talked about Hadrian and his 'mom' she sounded a little wistful - and he hoped her adoration of Captain Rabik wasn't totally one sided.

Her question took him totally off guard. He blinked and his brow furrowed as he considered it.
"I don't know." He said, then grinned a crooked little grin, "Well I mean of course I know, its just that I never thought about describing it. Let me think..."
Which he did, you could tell his was thinking because it was written all over his face, like most everything else that went on in his head. He nibbled on his lower lip, and his brows drew together a little.
"Warm." He said after a bit, a little absently. "Definitely warm. But other things too."
It was clear he was still thinking about it.

"Its kind of a hard question." He admitted tilting his head to the side as he though, "I don't think about what its like to be me, I just do it."
He gestured helplessly with his hands.
"Bright, I guess. And exciting, most of the time. Alot of going and doing things, not as much sitting and thinking about them. Uhm...being me involves alot of going places. And for awhile it was a little bit lonely I guess. But mostly...interesting and fun. I think."

"Oh! Oh no...I didn't mean..." And then he really did blush, because he had been talking while he was thinking, without really considering what precisly he was saying.
"I mean, thank you...I'm not, right now." He stopped to take a breath and stop half explaining. "I left, a while ago, and went alot of places by myself. And, it was exciting and interesting and really very amazing. But it got a little lonely."

The fire feien smiled back, relieved that she hadn't thought he meant that she wasn't any fun to be around. He hadn't actually realised, until he was trying to hard to descibe 'what it was like to be him', that he'd felt like that since he got back. Being lonely while travelling wasn't so bad, it happened now and then but you were always on your way something - doing something.

"I would like that, next time. The first time, going by myself was sort of the point."

Really, he thought, it was that when he got back it had felt very much like everything had changed, and he didn't know anyone. Coming home to find out that most of your old friends were gone, that the town had change, and there had been some sort of military coup in your local government.

He almost started to protest, but then he realised that despite the odd way she had put it, she was basically right. No one he had grown up around had ever put things in terms of being strong of being weak, it was a bit of a new way to look at things for him.
"Yeah, I suppose. And I just wanted to see things. I learned most of the magic I know while I was travelling too."