What's your plan, then? To die in that gutter?

"Yeah, probably, Mom," he says, too exhausted to keep himself from speaking aloud. " 's what happens when you kick a kid out."

Don't blame us for your own nature, his father shouts. Why would we have kept something like you around?

It's a fair point. Ren doesn't have a response. He can't hear anything else, even his own voice, really.