"Sorry, I can't hear you because how many times have you been injured since I last saw you?" Kira could say it'd been sixteen months all he wanted, but for Ty it still had only been five minutes. It was his homecoming all over again, where people had filled him in on what he'd missed, except less hilarious and bittersweet and more horrifying.

He started towards the houses nearby because he wasn't going to make Kira walk all the way back to the other side, annoyed and sick with worry. This place hadn't seemed so dangerous, but Kira bore the marks to prove otherwise.

"Start from the beginning. What do you last remember before coming here?"