In retrospect, given the sort of world he lived in, it should have been obvious that high school was not going to end with him walking across a stage and collecting a diploma, but instead with him falling into a mad scientist's portal and being transported to an alternate dimension.
It's the sort of thing that happens to mutants.
Everyone else seems to be in agreement that ignoring the situation is the thing to do.
It takes several minutes for Sky to return.
When he does, he’s holding something in his hands, a large fragment of shell that appears to have ornate designs and marks etched into it.
“I trade this.”
...Dorothy approaches, carefully, and takes the shell fragment from his hands, looking it over.
“Are there...more of this?”
That's really hot! Lev's judgment is very very questionable.
"...I think Dorothy would say 'no' to that and then you wouldn't get to see me at all."
"You could kidnap me and then not that," Lev doesn't say, because he is pretty sure it will get his arms broken by Dorothy, who's both a girl and not xeno.
He looks between them all again.
“I want the tablet,” he says, after a minute, “and this touch my head.”
Lev could tell the mermaid that his name is Lev, but it's kind of hot to be called "this."
He touches Sky's head. It's been a while, but he remembers the things Sasha used to like.
He makes odd little chirruping noises and pushes up into Lev’s hand. His hair is very wet.
Kyou returns with a large tablet in a waterproof case, which he sets in front of Sky.
It’s displaying what is, by all appearances, some kind of point-and-click game.
Yes. Good.
He starts to tap around on the tablet: it looks like an adventure game of some kind, but the tablet reads out words whenever he taps. "School of fish." "Rock." "I tie the rope to the sunken boat." "I swim up."
Every so often he stops playing and just appreciates the petting.
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