Jack wondered how they would rest in that environment. They hadn’t met with any danger as of yet, but the noises were all so strange and menacing. Remembering Lateef’s comment, though, made them less so. Jack held back a giggle as his perspective on the noises transformed. Which of them were fights, and which of them were acts of mating? The attempt to discern them calmed him down somewhat.
His eyes were tired since they had not slept the previous night, but his heart was wide awake. Jack had truly believed Sprinkle was lost, and with him, pretty much everything. Also, Ice Cream City was in the war now. Slurpee City, too.
Sighing, Jack wondered if Elizabeth was okay. And Timothy, the traveling comedian. Surely, his own parents were as fearful of Jack’s fate as he was of theirs. Worried a
