Nico held up her hands. "Don't ask me to explain adult logic," she said. "It is incomprehensible and unlike our own."

Raph was remarkably easy to talk to, for a guy from an alternate universe and a life so different from her own. She doesn't know if she's just latching onto him because he's close to her in age and acts like it, or if it's because of the way he ran to his brother to free him before going after what he'd thought were potential threats. Maybe it's just because he knows when and how to say wow, that sucks like he means it. Whichever reason it is, she wasn't planning on coming up with an excuse to leave for a bit.

"Most adults on the surface think kids are pretty stupid, I guess."