Nik was just getting confused to be honest. He believed Gor - no questions there. If the Littlest said he saw something freaky, very likely he saw something freaky. His levels of Fantasy World only stretched so far and didn't really enter into Reality.
"No, I haven't," he half-muttered. There had been no outdoors for Nikolai today and very little talking to other people. He scratched the back of his head absently in thought until he hit a sore spot and jerked his hand back. Stupid fucking unseen bruises. Almost thankfully, Zoe could back up Gor here. She'd seen it too. Christ, this was just getting weird.
He became completely absorbed in thought, pulling into himself as he stared in the direction of the balcony. Thoughts were milling about in his mind at a million miles a second - a billion words at a time. He wasn't one of the scientific minded brothers but he knew enough that he could theorize.