Shit. Wolfwood chews on the filter of his cigarette, pretending to scan the crowd instead of answering. Livio was supposed to stay at the orphanage! He was still there when Wolfwood was taken! Or at least, that's how it had been for him. All these stupid alternate worlds, changing everything... what's the point? How are they supposed to help anyone if they can't even know where they are? Who they are?

"Sorry kid," he replies at last, and he certainly sounds sorry. "I don't know where he is." Chances are he's not here -- he's back wherever this version of his younger self came from, which means Livio is stuck back in a world with the Eye and no Nico to protect him.

Not that he did a damn thing to protect him last time.

"But if he's here, then I bet he's looking for Miss Melanie too, same as we are."