Reigen had been quiet since they’d returned—for him. He had only caught bits and pieces of the girl’s babbling but it was…disturbing.
Grinning people with no faces. Food made out of dark. It sounded like a bad dream. Whether it was real or not, Reigen couldn’t exactly probe her. The best they could do was do another scan of the area before Daisy made a meal for her and let her cry herself to sleep.
The world, such as it was now, was hard enough for him to understand. Could he, in good faith, expose a kid so young to even more of it? It’d have been one thing if they were saving from a cardboard box under a bridge, but…
“…Even so. How easy will it be to get back to him if we leave again? Even with your powers, Hitomi-chan. I’m not trying to put bad juju out into the universe, but…who’s to say what’ll happen between here and the next destination? Everyone who we’ve met on the road has never gone far from where they ended up. Even we haven’t tried backtracking anywhere yet.”
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Grinning people with no faces. Food made out of dark. It sounded like a bad dream. Whether it was real or not, Reigen couldn’t exactly probe her. The best they could do was do another scan of the area before Daisy made a meal for her and let her cry herself to sleep.
The world, such as it was now, was hard enough for him to understand. Could he, in good faith, expose a kid so young to even more of it? It’d have been one thing if they were saving from a cardboard box under a bridge, but…
“…Even so. How easy will it be to get back to him if we leave again? Even with your powers, Hitomi-chan. I’m not trying to put bad juju out into the universe, but…who’s to say what’ll happen between here and the next destination? Everyone who we’ve met on the road has never gone far from where they ended up. Even we haven’t tried backtracking anywhere yet.”