“Yeah, he’s from a world totally different from this one or mine!” Mono responded with a nod to confirm her question. “He made the business himself, and he lets a lot of us kids that can’t make money easy to get stuff we need ourselves. He takes care of the big heavy stuff or delivering stuff that’s needed even quicker than I can carry stuff.” Since Tommy was super fast, as Mono liked to put it. That said, her last questions were things he wasn’t sure how to answer. “I dunno what you mean, exactly? You need money to buy stuff around the city like food and clothes and other things. And I kinda don’t know what you gotta do to start a business, only that people’ve done it. One of them might, or maybe that Raimon guy that runs that funny shop might be able to tell you better than I could?”

Mono shrugged a little. It was kind of sad that they both had to deal with things like that… But she didn’t need to apologize. It wasn’t like she could do anything about it in his world. The kid moved on rather quickly to focus on this world for the time being. “Yeah, there’s a whole bunch of different stuff. Like the usual stuff too, there’s different stuff in the sewers too, so they say you gotta be careful if you go down there.”

He shook his head slightly, at least seeming relieved to confirm the situation with the crystals. “Yeah, it’s only happened the once? I hope it was just a random weird thing, and that it doesn’t happen again. I dunno why it happened, either. I either didn’t hear or no one figured out how it happened.”