It's been a few days since Laura got out the hospital, and nothing important or interesting has happened. Except for Theo and Sadde having just captured a new card, Glow, though that's debatably quite boring. Theo turns to Sadde, as though she might have the answers. "Okay, seriously, a card that glows? First it's wind, then it's a huge bird, then you have a blue lizard, there's a bloody Easter bunny, then a shadow, then a sword, and now a card that glows?"
They're not at all voluntary, so no, not all for him. They're certainly because of him, however.
Well. If he were able to hear the narration, he'd definitely like the sound of that, but as is he has to make do with the 'subtle' fact that they're being made when he does things.
Well, that's sad, but it's not the first time Theo's had to be without her.
He starts listening to some music on his phone.
"No, I called you to brag, yes I need your help. Remind me, there was a 'lock' card, wasn't there?"
"Uh, yeah?" Theo responds. "Kero!" he shouts. Where did the bear get to? He goes over to his notebook quickly and looks up what they were told about Lock.
... Turns out it wasn't much. "It's under Earthy and can 'lock a place and seal it off', not that that's very helpful. What's happened?"
"It's locked Mum inside the apartment. I've been trying to call her but apparently it blocks mobile phone signal, too."
"The Lock is what's up," he tells Kero. "It's locked Sadde's mum in their apartment."
He grabs his bag and then says to Sadde, "I don't remember where you live – can you send me directions or something?"
"Sure, I'll text you the address and directions," she says, and hangs up to do just that.
So Theo waits for Kero to get in his bag, then goes downstairs, says to his dad that he'll 'be back in a bit', and starts in the direction that he remembers, awaiting the further directions.
There she is, locked outside, sitting on the ground and playing on her phone. She looks up and says, "Hi."
"Kero, do you have any idea how we can find it and stop it? If it's in there..."