His voice seems soft than it had been, but if it were due to passage of time, or to appear less harsh to his old friend, the mute fragment wouldn’t know. Eight approaches the other, quickly closing the distance between the two-
surprisingly with a soft smile on his face, too. Had things changed that much?
* I-its been a while, hasn’t it? I’m sorry I didn't stick around for our last meeting…I’ve been a little shy. Things haven't gone too well for myself-
* How are you, though? from the looks of it, you’ve got a couple of stories to tell.
Eight tilts his head at the scars, the missing arm, the cane…the other looked a mess…but the fact he’d survived through whatever had left the ugly marks had to be impressive.
He... to say he smiled... in comparison to his old bubbly beams... was a bit of an overstatement. A faint chortle however and he shook his head, it seemed he didn’t mind the other’s hasty retreat in their last encounter.
It was honestly preferred, what with how not much longer after... Mute had been personally robbed of his own arm. Gods only knew what would happen to Eight if... Toxicity... got his hands on him...
His smile dropped if only a bit, and he in turn nodded at the other’s statement, disguising his own shift in mood and memory with the topic at hand. His hand again if only briefly left his cane to spell out with a swirling light of letter tracing energies.
‘I am fine, a bit nomadic though I might say,
tends to happen when you’re running from
someone with something of theirs you never
intended to take’
He again chortled, gesturing to his own cranium for but a moment with his cane gripping hand. He paused and stepped a tad more forward... he had no path in mind in getting away from the sludgey fragment... just to really wander... perhaps the same could be said for Eight? As such, he made an almost offertory motion, welcoming the other to perhaps walk with him a while, if only to pass the time in their individual journeys.