[ it's all!! so!! annoying!! not knowing the answers is how kol thinks nik exists—and why he sucks. ]

There's no point in focusing on how it happened. The flowers are gone—I can't smell them anymore. Unless smelling them again will somehow make all of this stop…?

[ kol doesn't even appear like he believes that. it's not even an option. but sometimes what he thinks is ridiculous might be what triggers someone else to figure it out... or bond with him in the ridiculousness of that attempt at villainy. ]