"Yeah," I said, glancing back at Eddie, too. "It was... well. A lot happened. To all of us, though, and then the Home was so weird to him even though they know he's still Eddie. Not all of us would have somewhere to go if something like that happened, I can't believe they would just kick him out."

There had to be somewhere he could have stayed, although if I thought about it honestly, I didn't particularly want to be there right now either. It was probably better we had both been able to leave.

I started to help myself to the food Elio had brought for me, discovering halfway through my first mouthful that I was absolutely ravenous. The food was so much better than what we'd eaten on the Island, even if we hadn't technically eaten any of it. I still wasn't sure how that really worked.