Kit growls again, pointedly, a short, sharp little snarl without much energy behind it. 

Correctly interpreting it this time, Honey proceeds to turn around and start walking back down the hall. Back to just meandering, he supposes. Maybe spend some time formulating a new vector for approaching Kit.

He wanders the empty hallways for a while, past storerooms full of junk and dining rooms bare of food. 

One passage off to the side ends in a blocked-off door. Mismatched planks and wooden boards have been haphazardly nailed across it. They don't look like they'd hold up if someone was determined to get in, especially if that someone was Honey. 

Honey briefly entertains the thought of pulling off the boards and snooping around wherever’s hidden behind them, but decides against it. He’s not confident in his ability to nail the boards back in place afterwards, and he gets the feeling that leaving it open would be an error of a similar kind as he just recently made. Instead, he just keeps wandering.

He encounters nothing interesting for a while. At some point, he wanders away from the more populated areas, leaving footprints in the dust as he treks through unused corridors. 

If he investigates the rooms he passes, some of them will turn out to be disused cabins, with bunks attached to the walls. 

Huh. Cots. He’ll try and remember the way out here the next time he starts feeling tired.

Honestly he’s feeling kind of drained already, with the work with Kolya earlier and then healing up after fumbling the interacting with Kit.

Heads into one of the unused bunk rooms, dusts off a bunk, and lays down for a nap.

His sleep is undisturbed. 

Honey wishes something that would let him keep track of time had survived the Prospero’s final moments. He wonders how long he’s been here.

Shaking off the thought, he gets back and starts walking, albeit with a destination in mind. Specifically, the viewport he slammed into initially, or at least a viewport. He has no real idea where other than ‘towards the outer edge of the ship,’ but he’ll get there eventually.

Before he finds a viewport, Kolya finds him. 

"Hey. You alright?" 

Honey quickly checks over himself to make sure there aren’t any wounds he didn’t notice. Aside from his shirt now being cut up in addition to being a bit scorched, he’s fully recovered. “Yeah.”

"...good. That's good."

Kolya seems unsure of how to proceed. "Did you uh. Have any questions about the thing with Kit." 

Honey considers that for a moment. “Is there anything I can do to help Kit in the future?”

Kolya nods slowly. 

"Okay, so. Let me explain what to do next time he gets in one of—those moods." He makes a vague hand gesture, presumably meant to indicate 'that thing he was doing yesterday'.

"The most important thing to know is that if he leaves, you don't follow. Unless he's obviously inviting you, I guess. But if you're not sure, don't follow, and if he meant you to follow then he'll come back. Make sense?" 

Honey nods. “Are there cases other than him leaving?”

"You mean, situations where he doesn't leave but you should still be careful?" He hums thoughtfully.

"Well, like I said yesterday, if he growls it means stop what you're doing, back off. If you don't think you were doing anything, it means go away."  

Honey nods with a modicum of resolve. “So there is nothing.”

"...there are things that can help? But they take time to learn, and I think for you, for now, the best thing you can do is give him space when he needs it." 

Honey nods, without resolve. Internally, he starts preparing himself to be on the lookout for Kit, and to be ready to drop whatever he’s doing if he does.

"...he's not angry with you," Kolya ventures.

"What you did wasn't helpful, but you didn't know that. You'll do better next time." 

“By not being there.” He confirms.

"...actually," Kolya says slowly. "There is something else you can do in those situations." 

He leans forward. "If you're the only one there, you go and find someone. Preferably me or Martin, but any of us will do. Tell them what happened, where you last saw Kit, how he was acting. Aurora can help if you're not sure where to look. Think you can do that?" 

Honey nods. That seems like a sensible way to handle things, even if he’s not entirely sure it qualifies as him doing anything. “Alright.”

Aaaand Kolya has run out of stamina for talking about emotions.

"So. All good?" 

Honey nods again. Honestly, he’s not sure why Kolya seems worried about him, when it is Kit who is apparently going through some turmoil?

"Great! I'll just leave you to...whatever you were doing."