"I don't know who either of those people are."

"Mal is Maleficent's kid, she's a gang leader, she talks a lot about being awful and rotten and a villain but I don't know much about what she actually does, Queenie's territory was far enough from hers that we didn't interact much. Harry Hook's parent I'm assuming you can guess, and I guess I don't actually know that he aspires to evil as a quality but he sure does do a lot of raping and torturing people." 

"Did he hurt you?"

He debates saying 'only when we had territory disputes with Uma's crew,' which wouldn't technically be wrong, and instead says, "I mean, yes, but it wasn't that big of a deal?" 

Kaleva holds onto him tightly. "I don't want anyone to hurt you."

"It's a little late for that," he says, and lets himself be held. 

"Well, I can try to make sure nobody hurts you in the future."

You can try, anyway, he doesn't say. 

He nods and relaxes into Kaleva. 

Kaleva pets his hair. "I want to learn everything about the Isle," he says, "but I don't want to ask you about things that make you sad."

Having his hair pet is nice. Kaleva should keep doing that. 

"You can ask me things and if I don't want to talk about it I'll tell you that?" 

"You mentioned gangs and territories, how does that work?"

"So a gang is the thing where I do what Queenie tells me to and bring her the food I find, and in exchange if someone fucks with me she'll fuck with them right back. A gang is, like — that's your people, those are the people you're fighting with, those are the people you're spending your time around, you aren't guaranteed to be having sex with them but probably you are. Territory is the space your gang controls and gets food from." 

"Does the Isle grow food? I thought you got all your food from the barge."

"— we do? But, like — if you live in Uma's territory, Uma and her crew get some cut of whatever you find or scavenge, and in return nobody else is going to fuck with you." 

"That's-- interesting. It's almost a proto-feudalism."

"Huh. 

Gangs are mostly people my age or maybe a little older, adults live in gang territories and give up their cut unless they're, like, Maleficent, the really well known adults do a different thing but I'm not super sure what." 

"That's pretty strange. You'd expect adults to win out over teenagers in a fight, especially if the teenagers grew up malnourished."

He thinks about it. 

"I think part of it is that, like — my parents were random henchmen? And they're still random henchmen, and specifically they're henchmen to the people they were henchmen for before the Isle, not to some random, even though Hans couldn't beat Uma in a fight if her hands were tied." 

"The adults are stuck with the way things used to be, the teenagers are developing a new culture because they only ever knew the Isle?"

"Yeah. — and also, there isn't really a smooth transition in ages the way you have here? There's people my age or a couple years older, there's adults, and there isn't anyone in between, so I'd expect generation gaps to be a lot sharper than they are here." 

"That makes sense." Kaleva kisses Sasha's forehead.

He ducks his head and smiles into Kaleva's chest. 

"What are relationships between members of gangs like?"

"Depends? Mal and her gang were only four people, my gang was five, Uma's crew was like a dozen but the central group was only three, Queenie and Mal don't have a real second in command while Uma clearly does, all of that changes how things work —" 

"I dunno-- uh, pick someone you knew who wasn't in your gang and talk about them."