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When Leroy showed up that first day, the kids were so frightened. Leroy entered like a huge gust of wind, and the kids were leaves, all blown into a pile crunched together. And you know how leaves get when they’re together, well they look the same, every last one, and that was like these kids faces, all wide and waiting, like Leroy was going to eat them. I guess he looked like he was going to. Later I would find that Leroy just looks like he wants to eat something all the time – you, your surroundings, cars, buses, animals – some people are just that hungry. It was scary, see having this man, this beast, I don’t even think he was all the way human at this point. I think a point comes when you’ve been away from things too long, and you lose touch with what’s real and what’s fake, and Leroy is outside in broad daylight for the first time in nine years, and he doesn’t belong, no, not at all, but it’s not even that. Talking to fake people, electronic people, people changed by the darkness had changed Leroy too until he was half robot really. I almost expected his voice to be like one of those robots you see on television.