"If you're doin' the same thing half the other people did, then I can't. You're holdin' the only thing that says I am who I am-" If she were an adult, he might show how bothered he was by arguing him being real so often to so many faces, but she's not and he wasn't going to go around yelling at kids.

She was scared. She was right to be.

"If I had a knife, I'd cut my palm or somethin' but if you're that deep into it, wouldn't you just question that too?" A beat passed. "C'mon," he said, jerking his head a little as he took back to walking. "No holy water to test, no hallowed ground to walk on. Can't say I'm not glad to not have a church here to haunt us too."