Chapter 31: you’re number one
Their return to the city is a largely momentous one. There’s the usual swarm of crowds, Austin doing his mandatory check-in, Arturo and Toni respectively being nosey little assholes. But save for that, life carries on more or less the same as it had before they left.
More or less, of course, being the operative word. In the early hours of the morning, well before either of them would normally be awake, Wilma starts to leave. To where, exactly, Kai couldn’t say, and when he casually presses her on the matter, he always gets some sort of half-hearted dismissal. “Just runnin’ some errands, babe,” she said one day, humming to herself as she absentmindedly played a game on his mirror.