Chapter 46

There were many things he could ignore in life, but animal abuse wasn’t one of them. It made him feel horrible to just have to wait. The boy hadn’t sounded familiar. There was no number. There were no clues. He hoped the boy wouldn’t get into trouble, at least. It couldn’t have been easy to make the call.

Padraig rubbed his face with one hand and decided he might as well go say good night to Francis and get to bed. Maybe Hestia would want to cuddle with him tonight instead of going to Kaos’s room.

Kaos fell asleep and dreamed of all of his friends dying around him, wasting away into nothing in hospital beds while people outside chanted that they deserved what they got.

He woke up disoriented and confused. Then he remembered the glimpse he’d gotten into the life of Francis, Padraig, and Marcus. If nothing else had quite hammered home the fact that Padraig was two decades older than him, last night had finally managed to do it.