The Last of Us

‘About as much as it is possible to miss anything. About as much as you miss yours.’

I have to think about this.

‘OK then, but I never knew my dad. So it’s hard to miss him to even start with.’ I wait for Elizabeth to smile or show appreciation, but she’s busy. ‘Truly though, I do miss my mum. But I’m a lucky one. It’ll not be long before I see her again. She’s coming back. I know it.’

She stops searching. Instead she looks at me. She sits on a footstool and gives me an over-long stare.

‘You believe that? That’s really what you think?’

‘Aye, I do.’

She goes to say something but I go first: ‘She just left me for a while, that’s all. So I just have to keep waiting. Keep looking until I’ve discovered her. It’s called Pester Power. Which means not taking no for an answer.’

She holds up a packet.

‘This is it.’

‘It’s the right antibiotic? Will it work?’

‘I’m really hoping it will.’

‘Is it the yellow stuff that tastes of bananas?’

‘No, it’s a pill. Called Trimethoprim. In the book it doesn’t say it’s for skin. But I can’t find anything else.’

She sounds headed towards sad Elizabeth, so I take her hand and blow a fart onto the back of it.

‘It shall work. You don’t have to be grown-up to be a doctor. Remember our law? “Kids rule; adults drool.” We can do everything they can. Or could. That’s called teamwork.’

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