They were? Like many things, family was an odd concept that he was also just figuring out more recently between moving and conversations with people… But from what Mono could tell, family was more complicated than just people who happened to be related. It seemed like a lot of people could be family, if they were close enough to each other… And there was something really nice about that. “Yeah…? Well, you already do a good job of helping everyone, the others even talk about it sometimes.”

He bounced the ball back again, tilting his head slightly. “And I know you helped me a lot since you got here? Even today!” Because getting to experience ‘fun’ things to decide if he liked it or not was something that wasn’t always easy for him to approach without feeling weird.