He looked over at his mother who’d closed her eyes again. He hadn’t seen or spoken to either of his parents in months, and it had never occurred to him that something could be wrong with either of them, other than... you know, that they were kind of mental. Regardless, he needed to know what this was about. Even if he wasn’t going to play their little family game, his instinct to stay connected to his mother was far stronger than his pride in that moment.