Casey heard the kid coming before AJ reached him, but that didn't make it any less alarming when the boy collided with his knees. It took everything in him not to jump away, unused to human contact as it was and even more unnerved by the fact that it was a child leaning against his legs. Kids were strange things, and Casey felt supremely uncomfortable in their presence. It was difficult enough for him to talk to a full-grown human being, forget find a way to relate to a miniature one devoid of higher reasoning.
"Um, did someone lose you?" Casey was asking AJ when Rory caught up, and he lifted his tired eyes to her face. His sleep had been interrupted by migraines since coming to Sing Sing, and it showed in the bags under his eyes. He had known that Rory was somewhere on the prison grounds, but this was his first time running into her since he arrived. He had been hoping to avoid it for as long as possible.
"I doubt that," Casey said in response to Rory's words, glancing back down at AJ. Kids never liked him. They seemed to sense that he didn't like them, and it was a rare child indeed that tried interacting with him. "I think he likes my cat."