Chapter 6
Dawn reappeared in front of Marc in the flat, and when she did the mark on his forehead finished.
“ did you get it?” Marc asked.
She held out the glowing necklace “ yep! Hey, Newby, can you-“
The God took the stone and held it firmly “ it will be safe with me”
“ Polly, what’s that in your other hand?” Marc pointed.
She looked at the ball Jake had given her “ why is this here?”
“ what is it?”
“ it’s just a ball. It’s nothing. But… I brought it out of your head.”
Marc tried to comprehend that statement “ so, like Freddy Krueger? Could you bring Steven out?”
She shook her head “ I don’t know. Based on your state, I don’t think that’s a good idea. Are you able to find him?”
“ let’s see.” Marc paused, then blinked his eyes a few times, looked around, then covered his nose.
“Blimey, what crawled in here and died?”
“Steven!”
“ what has Marc been doing? Besides not bathing or…” Steven breathed into his palm and smelled his breath “brushing his teeth.”
“ he was worried about you. He couldn’t find you. He was scared. He lost his comfort blanket. Which is why I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to take you out of his head.”
“ whoa!” he exclaimed “ When was that an option?”
“ when I was there, I brought something in and took something out. I think you two should think about it. Don’t make any—“
“ I want to stay with Marc.”
“Oh.” She stopped “ OK then. Yeah. That’s probably for the best.”
Steven tried to explain his reasoning “ I was made for a reason. To help him. If I opted to try and make me a real boy, I’d be… I’d…”
“ you’d be abandoning him. I get it.” Dawn smiled. “ nobody wants that.”
“ thanks for your help, Paulena. Please keep the moonstone safe. We don’t want to go into your head and fight a werewolf.”
She shrugged “ You might like my head. Less crowded.”
“ I’ll take a crowd over a blank chasm of nothingness.”
Dawn laughed “ At least I’m not the one that smells like a skunk.”
Steven squinted his eyes and glared “ in the name of the moon…”
“Alright I can take a hint. Newby, do your thing! Bye Steven!”
Anubis howled and teleported him and his avatar away from Steven.
Steven paused and smelled the collar of his robe “ugh. It is a little skunky.”