[Michael]

It had been such a very long time since Nikolai had actually been around proper people. Well, people at all, being as they were perhaps so far and few. Cretins, idiots, slaves, savages, infidels, monsters, braggarts, cowards, fools, nancies, and hoodlums.

Though sometimes..you found people. And it was ever so amusing.

"How very interesting the upside out and right side down things are~" He cooed in a low and purring voice, dissolving- or was it resolving? Into being on a low hanging branch near where all the commotion was. He grinned a toothy grin, clacking sharp claws against the bark of the tree. His tail slung down, jangling as this or that ornament went skittering about against the others, all racing to escape; being trapped by the final ring along his scrawny looking tail. The ridiculous length wrapped about the limb he rested upon- giving him balance while still looking lazy as all heck.

"Could this be a dream- or a coincidence? Or perhaps Both and neither." He grinned ever wider, voice a sinister crawl as he looked them each over in turn. His tail unfurled again, curling and uncurling below him like a lazy yo-yo, too unmotivated to make it all the way back up each time. It didn't even occur to him that it was the oddest situation to be popping into; nor that it was odder still to suddenly up and try starting a conversation. All irrelevancies in his mind.

..That was, if he still had a mind left.