“I was going to say the same thing.” Doppio had to resist breathing a sigh of relief that Hitomi had been the first to bring it up. She was the one who was close to Chid, after all.

“You know…the person who the Chansey found…it was a child. A little girl. She’s from a town Daisy recognized but she got lost after wandering too far off. Her parents disappeared awhile ago.” Doppio was fiddling anxiously with the ends of his hair where it laid loose over his shoulder. “She wasn’t able to talk clearly about what happened before we found her, but…it was something bad. Really bad. And now I’m thinking…um….can we really keep a kid with us safe out there? I mean…”

‘I mean me.’