Mono managed another one of his small, tilted smiles. “Yeah, I guess you guys wouldn’t have if you didn’t want to.” That would be kind of silly for someone to do, after all.

He glanced curiously at Nida a moment later. “Maybe I can learn how to help too. People do chores and stuff when they live in a house, right?” He remembered hearing other kids in the city talking about having to do chores and stuff. It all sounded like rather easy things, but if that was normal for kids, then he wanted to make sure he knew that stuff.