[They cannot offer anything in return - they cannot offer that he would be an honorary drifter, because drifters are lonesome creatures by default, and he is anything but lonesome. He is so full of the lost souls he gathers to himself like butterflies or will-o-the-wisps of light. For all his hard edges and ragged exterior, he is quick to allow the pieces of others into himself, to warm them with his own earnest desire to ensure that no one feels truly alone.]
[He is not a drifter. He is...something else. Something they do not yet have a definitive word for. But it is not unpleasant, whatever it is.]
then you are kind
[What are they, in the scheme of things? Not a useful addition. Not a tactical one. One that is gathered close to the heart purely out of sentiment, or because one has a good and earnest heart.]
no subject
[He is not a drifter. He is...something else. Something they do not yet have a definitive word for. But it is not unpleasant, whatever it is.]
then you are kind
[What are they, in the scheme of things? Not a useful addition. Not a tactical one. One that is gathered close to the heart purely out of sentiment, or because one has a good and earnest heart.]