Kaiya was afraid of death, and the phone strangely comforted her.
After hanging up the phone...
She called Rodney.
"Hey ... I'm Kaiya."
It was very noisy at the other end of Rodney, and he heard Kaiya say in the noisy background voice, "Can I follow you in the future?"
Kaiya knew that Rodney was a loner. It would be very inconvenient for him to have a girl with him, but she still wanted to try. "I will learn a lot of things in the future, and I will help you make money, like the group of people we saw on the street that day. I will make a lot of money, and the thing you said. I will help you."
Rodney agreed. "OK."
They began to depend on each other.
They were not adults yet. There was no place to take them to work, so they drifted all the way. If they had no money, they would steal everything. They would not let go of anything that they could steal.