chapter twenty-one
Shinji woke feeling damn groggy…and damn hungry. He licked at his lips and looked down at Kippei, but wasn’t sure Kippei had enough to spare either. It had been a while since they had fed. And usually Kippei woke up first, being older; Shinji figured it was a sign of how damned hungry he was. So he crawled out of bed and went wandering, walking into three walls dazedly before he spotted his little pet human and then just staring.