"My mom... saw it with her own eyes and couldn't deny it. I think she still thinks the entire is suspect and that it was a science experiment and not a wormhole. She accepts I'm changed though and that I'm still me."

Which had been her one concern. Well the one she voiced.

"Sometimes I catch her staring at me though and I know she's wondering." Which isn't easy but is better than it could be. She hadn't had him committed for one, or done something to get his license taken from him.

"That right there? How do you talk about life but have to remember not to mention that you literally abandoned your truck last night to run to an accident you heard, and you got there seconds after it happened and were able to pull someone from the wreckage... that they would have needed the jaws of life for?"

He says it softly, not bragging either. Just an example that had just happened to him.

"They're obsessed with it but as a legend, a mystery. They don't want to know that since the crash there have been aliens among them and they never knew. Or that they aren't grey or have weird eyes. Well one of them looks weird but that's because he's an idiot."

Again those soft tones, almost relieved to have this talk with someone.

"But then I would also have to tell her things that aren't easy. That involve her family and her losses and I'm not sure she'd handle that well."

He smiles at her. "Being able to have this talk? It's a bigger thing than I think you realize. Because I can talk about everything."