[Sunny nodded, accepting that. Of course, it was the Ferryman’s job. They did it well, probably, just like they had protected their group during the Crossing.
Sunny didn’t have to worry about having to help. That should have put him at ease but… why did he feel like he was letting them down? It shouldn’t matter, the teen could go back to his relatively normal (for here) schedule, but…]
OK. I’m sorry. That I couldn’t help.
[He wasn’t sure why it mattered that he apologized. But the words were written and then he couldn’t take them back, no matter how true they were.
Still… they had their own journeys. That focused his mind into the future… the inevitable second Crossing. His pallor paled again, and the question he wrote was formed with shaky letters.]
We’ll have to leave here again, right? To keep moving? It’s… going to be scary again, isn’t it?
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Sunny didn’t have to worry about having to help. That should have put him at ease but… why did he feel like he was letting them down? It shouldn’t matter, the teen could go back to his relatively normal (for here) schedule, but…]
OK. I’m sorry. That I couldn’t help.
[He wasn’t sure why it mattered that he apologized. But the words were written and then he couldn’t take them back, no matter how true they were.
Still… they had their own journeys. That focused his mind into the future… the inevitable second Crossing. His pallor paled again, and the question he wrote was formed with shaky letters.]
We’ll have to leave here again, right? To keep moving? It’s… going to be scary again, isn’t it?