**sequel to Flightless** It's been three years since Ashton last saw Niles, and he can't get the human out of his head. So, when an unexpected opportunity presents itself, Ashton immediately jumps on the chance to go back to Niles- this time to stay. Niles has kept himself busy the last few years. Now a professor at a local university in addition to working at the faerie clinic, he hasn't had much time to wonder about his former patient. But when Ashton suddenly appears back in his life with the request to help him learn how to be human, Niles bewilderingly takes him in. Now stuck together, no longer as doctor and patient, Niles and Ashton try to navigate and create a new type of relationship- though Ashton seems to want... something more?