Beneath the Strawberry Moon

"Oh, I understand. With everything that's happened...it can be hard, I think, to remember to be a friend and a person sometimes." He smiled and put Mia back down near Isuma so they could properly meet each other. He watched with a parental eye as the two walked toward each other, still a little nervous until he saw them happy together, Mia not murdered in five minutes. He walked over to the table in the back, fetching a kettle that had been boiled not too long ago and still had tea at a drinkable temperature. Moving several book-making supplies out of the way, knives and pages and rulers, he had made a place for them to sit where they could keep an eye on the 'kids'. Pouring out two cups of tea, he motioned for Jigano to sit. "Before we speak of anything else, though, I would like to talk to you of something that could be quite urgent. I'm not sure. It's about the rescue mission, and Arduinna." Samuel He took a step but then felt tired He said, I'll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn't a child