Kid

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Mr Mite treated the Traveller agents to a lunch in the mansion.

While conversation happened, nobody really learned anything from anybody's words, it was all rather pointless for those who talked.

Kid was sitting on Dominick's lap nibbling on a carrot while Dominick ate around her, he seemed really adept in eating around her. Kid seemed very content in just sitting there quietly. Eventually, Jason was the one who spoke, "how long have you known Kid, Dominick?" Jason asked.

Dominick looked at him weirdly, "Kid...?" He seemed to click, "Oh, I met Kid  50 years ago."

Mary sipped what she assumed was expensive wine, she winced at the taste. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't look like your fifty years old, Dominick."

Dominick chuckled, "I'm flattered really. But I'm much older than I seem," he informed grabbing his glass and drinking it. As he was putting it back, Kid grabbed it to look what he was drinking.

Goldie swallowed a horrific amount of food, "How old are you then?" he asked stuffing some marshmallows in his mouth.

"Forgive him, he doesn't really register manners," Jesse informed, "And honestly, neither do I." He held a hand up, "Goldie, marshmallow me."

Goldie tossed it and it landed in Jesse's mouth. They both made muffled cheers of accomplishment.

Neon straightened in his chair. "If it's okay to ask, how old are you then?" Jason asked.

Dominick smiled as Kid snorted at the taste of what he was drinking, "I witnessed the city of Delco City's land be sold to Mr Arnold Delco himself," Dominick informed.

Neon went wide eyed, "how's that possible? That was almost two centuries ago!" Neon accidently yelled.

Dominick winked in his direction and added a click of the tongue, "Right on the bullet."

"How do you keep yourself from aging then?" Jason asked.

Dominick leaned his back against his chair and sighed, "To be honest I don't know exactly how it works, but something on the island keeps Keepers from aging," he explained.

Mary raised an eye brow, "Keepers? Keeper of what?" There were many Keepers in this world, but they normally adopted a second word, like; Keepers of Peace, Keepers of Power, Keepers of Faith, Light, Darkness, and so on. There weren't too many Keepers full stop.

He shrugged, "The Keeper of Kid here," he informed bobbing Kid up and down a couple of times. "To be honest, when Mr Mite told me about a Jane Princely on the list of one of his parties I thought surely the person must've been lying."

Mr Mite nodded, "When Dominick said that Kid and Jane Princely were the same person, I knew what she looked like and remembered her from the train situation."

Mary caught onto a question when he said that, "you knew who Kid was when you saw her?" she asked.

Mr Mite looked to Mary and straightened himself up before nodding, "Yes. I admit, I believed she was the girl our guest had been talking about, yes."

Neon could mentally hear what Kid planned to say, Dominick seemed to as well as his hand tightly clenched around her mouth. Her voice was a muffled mess, and in an attempt to make him release she licked his hand.

But he honestly didn't care as he picked Kid up by the head as she clawed at his hands and tried to bite him. He merely laughed at her attempts as he eventually put her down.

When Kid spat at the ground Mr Mite spoke. "I will admit, when I first met you Travellers, my guest was indeed in my possession, but I hadn't actually met him yet at the time. He had only spoke of you over the phone and in letters. As a matter of fact, when we were attacked on that train we were on our way there."