"..."
The boy looked at his suddenly appearing sister, puzzled, tilting his head.
He didn't understand why his sister was crying before him or why she was there at all.
"I'm sorry... Did I scare you?" she said, wiping away her tears, her smile still gentle.
She saw him, the person she had been searching for, her very first life.
It was a past about him that she had never known.
"It seems," she smiled, "that the two of us may have something in common... That's why I want to return all the happiness, all the tenderness you've given me."
"..."
The boy just kept looking at her, puzzled, not understanding what she was saying.
"I'm sorry, I was just going on about myself."
Eve took a deep breath to suppress the surge of emotions within her.
At that moment, there were more important things to do.
"Are you alone?" Eve asked. "Standing here all this time must be tiring, thirsty, and cold too, right? Do you want to come with me?"
