"Great. So that's a new awful thing we're gonna have to deal with. Fabulous. Looking forward to all of that."

Just when he thinks Wonderland can't make anything worse for them, it goes ahead and pulls shit like this. He's starting to wonder if home, as shitty and terrible as it is, is actually the better option. At least they know what they're doing back home. They know danger is going to come from walkers or other people. You can plan around that. You can't plan for some magical dragon lizard thing. Jesus.

It settles on him like a weight. Steven's gone. Steven's a good kid, he reminds Louis of Tenn- and that is a wound that's nowhere near even starting to heal. The thought that another sweet, gentle kid has been wiped out of existence makes his stomach churn. Fuck.

"Michonne?" that's the one that hurts the worst though, fear drips into his expression. "Do you- do you think that happened to her? The dust thing?"

Not Michonne. She's been the first adult he's truly trusted for years. The first one he's really let into his life again. She's like a mother to him, and the thought of her being gone... it makes everything else a hundred times worse.