days fell away with nothing to show (EBONY)

Nikolai hadn't had much motivation to do much of anything as of late. He went about his day, occasionally training in something, but that was about it. It felt like he spent his days just waiting for something to happen. It was like he had no excitement, no want to get out and do something with his day. Instead he just hung around the Ebony teritory, waiting for something to happen or for some sort of summons to call him forward. Just such a summons would sound, the voice clearly Kassander's, and Nikolai would rise to his paws to move toward it with little hesitation. He was in no hurry to arrive so by the time he got there he saw that there was already a fair sized crowd gathered. He took a place among them, sitting slightly toward the back but close enough to the front that he would be in the thick of it all. Light brown gaze would glance around him curiously at all the unfamiliar faces before settling on Kassander, curious to find out what they had been called for this time.

"Speech" 'thoughts'