"Yeah, but this time I said that I like him. All right? So he's a really cool guy." Maybe cool wasn't the best descriptor here, but Gunn was trying. Trying to make this boy a bit less terrified of, well, the world.

So he ended up sitting down on the ground next to Gideon, pulling out his phone. He opened up the right email and started showing the picture attachments. "That's him. He's called Holden O'Shea. That's a fun name, isn't it? Sounds like a character in a story."

Maybe that was just what it sounded like to him. "He lives in this house, look. That's what it looks like from the outside.