[his mobile buzzes, and he almost doesn't answer it]
[the list why is immeasurable; he's exhausted, physically and emotionally, it's most likely someone trying to act like they're not checking up on him, but totally checking up on him, or someone badgering him about Nill, and it's not Nill because Nill's already with him, but it could just as likely be any of those brainless zombie fuckheads off the network playing the Landlord's bullshit game and accusing him of being the murderer of his own -- of -- ]
[(a skinny, perm-headed boy in the hospital, whose face Badou didn't look at, not once, not like that)]
[so Badou picks up the phone expecting to turn it off, to chuck it into his backpack and forget about it, because there's no point and he doesn't want to talk to anyone, it doesn't matter, because there's one person Badou wants to hear from and it's goddamn well not gonna -- ]
Re: 10/21
[the list why is immeasurable; he's exhausted, physically and emotionally, it's most likely someone trying to act like they're not checking up on him, but totally checking up on him, or someone badgering him about Nill, and it's not Nill because Nill's already with him, but it could just as likely be any of those brainless zombie fuckheads off the network playing the Landlord's bullshit game and accusing him of being the murderer of his own -- of -- ]
[(a skinny, perm-headed boy in the hospital, whose face Badou didn't look at, not once, not like that)]
[so Badou picks up the phone expecting to turn it off, to chuck it into his backpack and forget about it, because there's no point and he doesn't want to talk to anyone, it doesn't matter, because there's one person Badou wants to hear from and it's goddamn well not gonna -- ]