18The bubble finally bounces to a stop in front of a stained glass house that resembles Judd's family's house back home.
(Except for the being-made-of-stained-glass part.)
As soon as the bubble stops moving, Mom's bone chips, muscle fibers, and green scales crawl out of their geodesic matrix and swarm into her red pantsuit and polka dot shoes. Before Judd's eyes, they build a new Mom from the bones up in the sticky brown paint. Her clothes fill out and rise, taking shape like a balloon being inflated.
The second she's back in one piece, Mom sings the car keys, and the blotch drops us on the driveway...
(...which is made of something like gelatin, it jiggles when it catches us...)
(...it's also purple and tastes like grape when Judd gets some on his mouth...)
...and then Mom rolls o
