Ash and Kat hadn’t spoken much; he had done his runs, and despite Bubbles’s surprise when he had first mentioned he had to go to Carter, he was still being sent to that man with bags of items he didn’t need to know what. He hadn’t acted any weirder than usual, either.
But that had all happened yesterday when he had gotten home around four a.m. Alex had been fast asleep, and he hadn’t had the heart to wake him up. So, he had sat on the sofa in his room and watched an anime Lucky hadn’t stopped talking about, and it had his heart. He loved the main character so much Phos was indeed a gem, which was, in fact, a pun.
But right now, it was almost eight p.m. Alex had mainly slept all day, and Lucky had chalked it up to sleep deprivation; one would check up on him every couple of hours to ensur
