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[socrowdedinhere]

 

Ari: Oh! *smiles* I'm glad he'll be with good people. *looks at Cody* They'll love you there, I know it.

Cody: *looks hopeful but uncertain. He looks at Darnell kind of like "really? Truly?"*

Darnell: *nods* Ari's met these people too. In fact, he knows Hellboy really well.

Ari: Very well, he's a really great guy.

Cody: *smiles*  I'll be happy to meet him.

Darnell: He'll be happy to meet you too. *snickers* I hope you like cats. Hellboy has a gazillion of them.

Cody: */smiles/* I like cats.

*Cody and Darnell head to the kitchen. The boy sets his butterfly where it can be seen and will help Darnell any way allowed to make dinner.*

*They'll work and chat and make a /damned/ fine dinner (see: spoiling Cody as much as possible because the poor boy deserves it), then Darnell will spend some time searching the internet and also employing Thomas to help him find photos of Maggie*

*It’ll... prove very difficult to find pictures of her that are clear. She wasn’t the selfie type by the time those became popular, and she wasn’t close with family. For now they’ve got a few grainy photos of her when she was much younger, but nothing to really go on. Still Cody appreciates the attempt and Darnell will get lots of hugs as they’re getting ready for bed.*

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[socrowdedinhere]

Cody: *eager to learn, he’ll help how he can, and is sooooo i terrested as Darnell plates their breakfast.* Does Ari not like eggs benedict? *looks at Ari* You didn’t have dinner wirh us either.
Ari: Oh, I ah, son’t eat solid things like you do.
Cody: What do you eat?
Ari: Um, well, energy.

[neverasked4this]

Darnell: He doesn't really eat. He just…absorbs, like a sponge picking up water. All life - people, animals, plants - have a sort of . . . something about us. What makes us different from rocks or this table, the countertop. It's a little bit like the air you breathe in and out. Ari is able to pick up on that, and it feeds him what he needs to live too. *trying to keep it as simple as he can without alarming Cody*

[socrowdedinhere]

Cody: *lips pressed together in thought.* What happens if you’re not around any people... or plants or animals...?
Ari: Well...it’d take a while, but I’d get really weak and...die. Just like you would if you never ate any food.
Cody: *nodnod* Stay close to people. We don’t want you to die.
Ari: *heart melts!* I will. Promise.

[neverasked4this]

Darnell: *grinning* We definitely don't want him to die, no. He's around a lot of people normally, even if they can't see him, so he gets plenty of energy to sustain him. *will plate the dishes and set them on the table*