Nita snorted again herself. "It's not that, I promise. It's more... the empath thing. And that you remind me of someone back home."

Who always got stuck in other people's heads and lives, even when that wasn't always the wisest thing to do!

Nita gave Xander a confused glance, wondering what he was looking at, but she shook her head and recovered.

"Good. Someone should, anyway. Think it's sick of me right now. Maybe sick of wizards as a whole."

Though not Samata, probably. Or Sakura, whatever her deal actually was.

The peridexis, meanwhile, took notice of Xander taking notice of it, and its own emotions shifted towards surprise. Why was anyone giving it any attention, it didn't deserve it...