Well, there went Prompto's thought to respond that he was always screwing up, because, well, Nina kept going (not so quiet now, huh?), but mostly because reading what she said sort of shuffled that out of his mind pretty effectively. He sort of had to go back and read it a few times, not sure if he was following, thinking that maybe what he needed instead of the cereal he was pouring himself was a few cans of Ignis' Ebony.

The only thing he could think of saying in response, at first, was that Nina was already adopted. But that was the good thing about text, wasn't it? He wasn't about to just blurt out the first thing that came to his mind.

So he just focused on something else in there, instead.

like you could ever stay HIDDEN if you didn't want to be

What did that even mean, anyway? Why would they hide her away like a secret? He was definitely feeling there was something there that he just didn't know enough about.

And not just about that, either, but that whole...

He looked at his not-so-empty cereal bowl, looked up and around at the much-more-empty house.

that sounds really nice tho! and you totally killed it with those races!