Child Development

No one ever mentioned it to her, and in retrospect it seemed pretty obvious, but being a globe-trotting, international ghost of mystery on the run from an eccentric billionaire could get, at times, a little boring. Well, when it wasn’t awe-inspiring, terrifying, painful, and beautiful, that is, which Elle guessed was a plus. As fun as it was to just watch new people walk around three stories below her, eat foods Vlad would turn his nose up at, and drift through classrooms and festivals and breathe in the wide variety of life, of emotion, it’s not like she could do that every minute of the day. She was, unfortunately, human-ish, and that meant taking care of human needs like sleeping and staying warm and sometimes just sitting down in a quiet spot for a few hours before her legs gave out.