What Becky had said hit Ethan like a truck "humans are extinct, and have been for 12,000 years?" This had to be a dream. There was no way that Ethan was the only human alive. There had to be others. Ethan continued to think thoughts like these while Becky rummaged through her very unorganised desk. She tossed seemingly important things and random junk aside, packs of gum, a half-eaten sandwich even notebooks full of scientific equations "Is this girl some kind of genius or what?" Ethan thought to himself. After throwing what seemed to be half a room full of junk off and out of her desk she managed to find what she was looking for. She held her phone above her head with a triumphant smirk, like she had just won some sort of battle. "Just give me a moment, I need to tell a certain someone you've recovered, they'll want to meet you" she explained as she left the room, seemingly not caring what Ethan had to say.

Without Becky making background noise the room was silent, too silent. It made Ethan uncomfortable, like he was the only person in the world. Which was right in a sense, if what Becky had said was true Ethan was the last human on the planet. Trying to shake off these depressing thoughts Ethan rose from the chair next to the desk and quietly walked over to the open window to have a look at the view. The world outside that window was a bustling city, full of people going to and fro. Living out their normal lives while Ethan's life had become anything but normal. Would Becky be able to find a way to send him back home? He could only hope.

Becky re-entered the room with an exhausted look, angrily muttering about something. Quickly downing the rest of her coffee she faced Ethan, who was still staring out of the window. She walked over and stood next to him, taking in the scene.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" she said quietly, as if she would disturb the scenery if she was too loud.
"Yeah, it is. But it's also frustrating."
"Oh? How is it frustrating? Personally, I find it relaxing."
"It's just, everybody down there knows what they're doing, or what they're going to do in the near future. But what about me? What am I going to do now? I can't just close my eyes and pretend this is a dream."
Becky placed a hand on his shoulder "We're going to try to get you back to your own time, trust me on that. But at the moment we have an important meeting to attend."
"A meeting? With who?"
"The mayor of Inkopolis, he's on the top floor of the hospital, I'll show you the way."
Becky turned her back on him and walked over to the door, and Ethan promptly followed.

Walking down the snow white corridor Ethan took this chance to examine his companion. She was at least a head smaller than he was, and she wore an oversized white lab coat. It was at least 3 sizes too big for her, she had soft facial features but her eyes showed a sharp determination. Her hair or "tentacles" as she had called them were almost as long as her body, they had stopped around waist length. The bright vibrant green was kind of off putting, upon investigating her hair on her crown, the roots were a dark orange suggesting she had dyed her hair, or tentacles. Could you even dye tentacles? The mysteries just kept piling on. She stopped at the elevators, but decided that taking the stairs would be better, in case of prying eyes on elevators. Upon reaching the stairs she struck up a conversation.

"I noticed you staring at me, am I THAT interesting to you?" she asked teasingly
Ethan realized this was a tease but decided to take the bait
"Yeah well, I don't know anything about YOU or what you are, mind giving me a brief explanation?"
"Talking about myself is lame, but sure what the hell." Becky began "Let's see, my full name is Rebecca Redcliff, I'm 17 years old. I know what you're thinking, I'm short right? I may be short, but I'm pretty smart, not to toot my own horn or anything." Becky, or rather Rebecca talked about herself for the rest of the walk, for something that thought talking about herself was "Lame" she definitely talked a lot.

Upon reaching the top floor Ethan immediately saw the meeting room, it was hard not to see it considering it was the only thing on this floor. Becky casually walked towards it and opened the door. Without knocking or waiting for a reply? How can she just act like this, aren't we supposed to be meeting the mayor?
"Hey, I brought him." She said bluntly while taking a seat in front of the mayors' desk. He had his back to us as we entered but he slowly turned around in his chair, like a villain in an old spy movie. He was an old man with a grey beard. He had tentacles too, but they were much shorter and orange, very different compared to Becky's. His grey eyes sized Ethan up while he scratched his beard.

"You must be that human boy" he began "Well let me formally welcome you to my city, Ethan. My name is Isaac Redcliff. I believe you've already met my granddaughter." His eyes drifted to Becky. So that's why she could act the way she did.
"Take a seat, boy. I'll give you a quick rundown of the situation."
Ethan sat as instructed. Ethan felt like disobeying wasn't an option when dealing with this man.
"First and foremost, just because you're disorientated by this event doesn't mean I will pardon you from any kind of law-breaking, you understand? Also, you'll be attending school as a child should, you're to transfer into Rebecca's school in two weeks."
Becky decided to intervene at this point "That's great and all, gramps. But where is he going to stay? He needs a place to live."
"I was just getting to that." He leaned back and smirked while he said these words. Ethan wasn't sure what he was going to say that needed a smirk as devilish at that.
"Rebecca, I've noticed that you've made the spare room into some sort of living quarters again. This is not allowed. I have stated this many times. But now I have an idea."
"An idea? I don't like the sound of this." Becky whispered to Ethan.
"Our friend here needs a place to stay. And if I remember correctly your apartment has an extra room."
"Oh no, he can't mean…"
"Rebecca. You're to move out of the spare room by tomorrow, and you're moving back into your apartment. And this boy is going with you."
"Hold on, what?" Ethan finally manage to say
"It's just as I said. You're going to move in with Rebecca. Have fun being roommates!"
Becky and Ethan just stared at the old man, then each other, then back to him.
"WHAT!?"