“So you just sound like an adult.” He nodded, seeming to think he understood this better now. “I bet you could trick the real adults easy.” He added, as though that might be useful to her somehow. Mono wished he could trick the adults sometimes, just because they were always telling him that some of the things he was used to dealing with were things he should go to adults about. Even if this world was different, it wasn’t advice that would be smart to follow in his world!

Though at her question, Mono shrugged with a little shake of his head. “Nah, not really. Everyone here’s pretty nice, so it doesn’t matter if you’re an adult or not.” She was just kinda lumped into the ‘new friend’ category while he tried to decide what kind of friend she might be.

“I dunno? I guess they’d just die.” Very blunt for a child, perhaps, but it just made sense to the boy. “Or maybe they’d learn to stop the bad stuff… But sometimes people don’t know what to do and they just stop trying to do stuff at all and let it happen.” Which seemed pretty normal as far as his world went. People could only handle so much before they gave up… So maybe part of the reason they were all here was so no one would? Kinda like they were inspiring them to do better and helping to make up for the stuff they couldn’t do themselves yet? Mono wasn’t sure though, so he didn’t voice it.