I wondered how the Kid would have handled a situation like this. They were much better at social niceties and comforting people. Anytime older ladies came in to ask me about a missing kid or family heirloom—anytime tears came into play, rather—I pushed them off on the Kid to deal with. Maybe it was mean, but I’d rather come off rude than deal with people yelling at me for being “insensitive”. But Leo was different. Or at least I wanted him to be.
