He felt like a gift. A treasure. I wanted to show him off to the entire fiefdom, to show them how lucky we were that out of the many, many people in his world—five billion of them—it had been Jugs who’d stumbled through the void to come here. But at the same time, I wanted to keep him hidden away, safe from the council and any others who wouldn’t understand. Just him and me, in our own new little world that we had forged with pieces of the different places we came from.
