Kaden stepped onto the roof looking at it with new eyes, in case this wasn't the roof he was familiar with. If the hallway could change, why not up here?
He heard the owl, but his mind didn't register it as unusual to hear in the middle of the city— they used to hear birds all the time in the Hole. Well, he did. He wasn't so sure his brothers ever noticed. Kaden kinda missed it. He'd liked the birds in Burlington.
He noticed the movement though, and it took a second to realise the movement was a man and not like... A tree? An animal? Something in the back of his mind – primed as it was to watch out for men who wanted him dead – simply slapped a label on the guy that said supposed to be there.
That only lasted a moment though, before his mind caught up with the fact that there was a smoking man on the roof and this was, actually, pretty weird. Weird like the door was weird. "Uh, hey," he said, as the smoke dissipated around the man's face. It didn't smell like tobacco, or weed, and he couldn't stop himself commenting, as he tried to make out the face behind the cloud. "Weird smoke."