'Sooooo ' ' Luffy says, drawing the sounds out, 'what 's with the whole, ' he gestures to my everything, 'thing? '

I give him a blank look. 'Dollface, I 'm only on my third plate of food, that is not enough for this conversation. '

I 'm cross-legged on the bed with my plate balanced on my knee, and for once Luffy isn 't trying to steal anything off it. At some point while I was out someone had changed me out of my extremely damaged clothes, RIP fishnet shirt you were gone too soon, and into one of those grandpa sweaters with the fun patterns and the softest pair of cargo pants I own. All of the copious amounts of shit I keep in my pockets is settled at the corner of the mattress.

'But Eeeeeeeed, ' he whines, rolling around on my bed, 'I wanna knooooooow! ' He abruptly sits back up and scooches close with a wide eyed look. 'Was this one of the congigences? '

'Contingency, ' I sound out. 'And in a way? I called for a contingency when Kuma first showed up. '