Rose said a couple nonsense words that didn’t make sense, then sighed. “Thanks for remembering me. So… are we ever gonna figure out my people, or…”
Bat left through the front door and strolled out through the quiet, shady woods. Birds chirped, squirrels scurried away, and…
Nothing attacked him. Just a boy and his bird, walking in the woods.
Man, technically. But he didn’t feel like a man. He felt less like one than he ever had.
He found a quiet area and sat down on a tree root.
Then he let the thoughts tumble through his head. Yay Cricket beat Malan! Good good. Cricket would be happy now, right? And so Tam and Bat and Cricket would all be happy together… unless they didn’t want him around. He had to get back to something, anyway.
Scud, he'd forgotten about Gaioh! Guilt swarmed him like bees, and he almost lifted his hand to swat them away. He didn’t know him very well, but Bat hoped he was okay. He better be okay. He couldn’t just abandon him like that.
He stood up to go tell Tam and ask her to—
Aw, rax, Tam, he remembered. He collapsed again, dropping his head into his hands. He couldn’t confront Tam now, not after… what he thought he’d thought. He had to think about this rationally and think it through and think it away for good before it ruined anything.
He took a deep breath. What else did he need to think about? Pulling out a pen and pad of paper, he started to jot things down.
Gaioh
Tam
He paused, tapping the pencil.
Tattoos
Nullite powers
They did seem to be linked somehow, though… he added an arrow.
Back home
Family
His pen hovered over the paper. Something told him not to write the next words.
So he didn’t. He left the most important word unwritten.
“Not at all. Feel free to inform me when you need more Nullite.”