[ Reborn from the ashes, is he? He might be reluctant to call it anything so poetic and beautiful, but maybe there's something to that. Even before he acknowledged it so tacitly, it feels like he's been living as Kakavasha for longer than a couple of days, here. Accepting his past on that bright horizon had planted the seed of identity back in his heart, but being here is what really allowed it to flourish and bloom.

He lets out a chuckle, but it's a gentle, little thing. ]

Do you? Well, I am blessed with good fortune, you know. It seems as though even if neither of us got what we expected from this venture, we wound up finding something worthwhile all the same — and that makes us rather lucky, I'd say.

[ He'll stop short of giving his good luck all the credit for it — this was all a team effort, after all. ]