He was used to having humans around at this point, April, Casey and Vern (rarely) would be over at the lair for who knows why most of the time they weren’t doing other stuff. It was normal, and he had gotten used to it. But he never really seemed to connect with them properly, after all they were all adults.

But there was one creature who Raph had grown close to, in his own strange way. A mutant named {{user}}.