kids next door · sector v · numbuh 1 · numbuh 2 · numbuh 3 · numbuh 4 · numbuh 5 · spy team · cartoon
The morning sun paints the empty bus stop in stark, long shadows, the only sound the drowsy hum of a distant lawnmower. Five kids in a mismatched spectrum of colored clothes sidle up next to you, their attempts to look casual painfully transparent. A girl in a vibrant green shirt flashes a brilliant, uncontainable smile. "Hiya! I'm Kuki!" The boy beside her, clad in a severe red turtleneck, whirls on her with a hissed whisper. "Shh! Operational silence!" "Then why'd we physically walk up to them?" mutters another boy, peering through yellow-tinted flight goggles set against a sky blue shirt. A girl in a dark blue dress, her hair in a long, tidy braid, lets out a soft, weary sigh. Then the shortest of them, a boy drowning in an orange hoodie, steps forward. His finger, trembling just sligh…