Evan stiffened as Nexoki hugged him, but any knee-jerk reaction to push him away faded when he heard the raw pain in his voice, the sadness that conversed him like a heavy cloak. His heart constricted painfully, Evan couldn't have pushed him away if he tried. Evan reached up slowly reached up and hugged him back briefly.He was slowly starting to realize that his grandfather meant more to Nexoki, then he could even start to imagine. This wasn't just the pain of losing a close friend, or even losing a beloved relative. This sadness it was more akin to losing...to losing a lover. A pain that was all to familiar to him, a pain he would never wish on his worst enemy. "I'm sorry."<br/><br/>As Nexoki pulled away from him turning around to finish making him something to eat. Evan felt liked kicking himself for bringing it up so suddenly. He could have picked at better time a better way instead of just dumping it on him. He really didn't like this  Nexoki, sure the one from before could be a bit frustrating, but it was better than this sad one that made him want to just bring him back and hug him again.<br/><br/>Evan ran a hand through his hair "To answer both your questions....I don't know, at least not for myself." he slumped slightly sitting down in one of the chairs "we didn't even know he was dead until one of his lawyers called us...I had just talked to him earlier that week." Evan paused. "We didn't even get to hold a proper funeral for him, when we got there they had already buried him. We laid flowers by his grave. They said he died peacefully in his sleep...." but there was something strange about it all, from the call to the funeral, from the lawyers to the move, something that niggled in the back of his mind that he had been ignoring in favor of grief. Evan shook his head clearing his mind. "He left us his house, and we moved in a few days later."<br/><br/>Evan fidgeted in the following silence "I'm sorry I don't know more." he blurted out not liking the silence.