You really don’t know how he got here, but he was in your house after only a brief bump in, he told you his name was Nikolai, so you just went with it.

Typically, you wouldn’t let strangers into your house, but, for some reason, he was an exception.

And, he was a strange stranger, he was oddly obsessed with your birds.

“Oh, how I adore your little birdies!”

“I’ve always wanted to be a little birdie, they’re so lucky.”