right where we left off

“Shut up,” Mama snaps. “You’re going backpacking.”“Yes.”“With the woman who kidnapped you.”Thacker sucks a breath in through his teeth. “Okay, sure, but -,”“With the woman who kidnapped you,” she says again, voice raising, “And made you go insane and attack people. Me, specifically me, I was in the hospital for two weeks.”Thacker sighs. “Okay yes, but she’s cool.”“She’s ‘cool’,” Mama growls, glaring at the wall of her workshop and hoping he can feel it all those lightyears away.“Yeah,” Thacker replies. “She loves weed.”-mama and thacker have a psychic phone call. the quell gets aggressively adopted.