People used to asked why Cleo decided to date a human, or why Joe dated a zombie while being human himself. They always laughed, rolled their eyes and saved that conversation to tell the other and laugh about it. Grian, being as nosey as he is, and new as he was, asks this after many a year of the two not being bothered. They of course laugh, and the red sweatered gremlin is just confused. So when Gri is trudging around in the dark trying to find a bed, he sees a figure, somethings wrong with it though. Too lanky, too thin, too tall, too many eyes, too much of everything walking around in the pitch black of night. Grian was scared shitless til Grian threw a lantern at it and discovered it was Joe giving him a bed. The figures did not tranlate to Joes average human looks though, and Grian hoped it never would. He understands why Cleo and Joe laugh now; not at their relationship, but at Joe being human at all.
From then on, Grian wonders how the hell nobody else realized Joe wasn’t human. I mean, his shadow is clearly not the same shape as his body. He’s starting to think Cleo may be the more normal one in their relationship...