"It's cold," Garrett said.
He is not wrong. The October chill is not what Garrett remembers before he was rushed into the hospital with a gunshot to the back eight days earlier.
It is an astonishing recovery.
Garrett's grandmother, Rosie Liggins, said the 7-year-old was inside their West Pullman home near 116th and Yates on Monday, Oct. 7, waiting for pizza, when bullets came flying through the window.
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"It was very bad, because they had to give him two surgeries. He ended up with half of a lung on the right side. Part of the left lung is gone," Liggins said. "Even the doctors and nurses were like. 'We've never seen a recovery like this.'"
Something of a superhuman himself, Garrett is headed home to his twin and thinking of a Halloween costume for a holiday his grandmother was not sure he would be alive to celebrate.
"A Ninja Turtle," he said.
Liggins says police have not arrested anyone in connection with the shooting, and her family is still seeking justice.