Change Happened

Lin Qiao asked Teng what he had talked about with the creature, and the boy responded to her with a chuckle, "I asked it what it is, and it said it doesn't know. Then, I asked it why it's here, and it said it came out because its home broke."

"Broke?" Lin Qiao looked at him with confusion. What did he mean by 'broke'?

Teng turned and glanced at the creature again, saying, "I think it likes me! I'm sensing its joy."

Lin Qiao looked at him curiously and said, "I can't believe that you actually can talk to it. How amazing is this! Ask it if it can go back underground."

"No," Teng shook his head without even asking the question, "It just told me that its home was broken, meaning that place is no longer suitable for it to live in. That's why it left."