Having started to more seriously mature, Sho actually looked genuinely happy again. The journey to get here was incredibly difficult and painful for sure. He had to do more than just undergo surgery, but in the end his heart was recovering and the difficult work here on the farm was certainly going to be of a great help to him.<br/><br/>Over time his hair had started to grow out, and he was now starting to sport something of a longer topknot or ponytail that was naturally tied up so that he could keep it fresh out of his eyes while he was working. He was dressed in slop clothing - it goes without saying that he figured that anything he would have worn here would eventually go bad.<br/><br/>That had prompted him to wear things that he picked up used, but regardless of this fact he had ultimately made sure to keep clean inside. Sho remained presentable for the individual that he worked on the behalf of.<br/><br/>Sighing gently to his own self, he raised a gloved hand to the sun, let a few pieces of sweat on his brow drip down and then let it end up mixing with the dirt that seemed to permeate everything. Moving bales of hay from the trailer behind the barn was hard work, and getting them up to the top of the barn was harder, but he knew that all of this would make him stronger.<br/><br/>Taking a short break to enjoy a cool breeze wash past his face, Sho exhaled and thought of the one thing he was longing for:<br/><br/>The Borrowers.<br/><br/>He had genuinely hoped that they were all right, and though he had convinced himself that they were, that had done nothing to change the fact that he was technically unsure of what had happened to them. He didn't know if they were going to be able to survive the rigors of the modern artificial world that they had created.<br/><br/>In fact, that was one of the things that dragged him ever closer to the joy of this kind of farm life. It was vastly less artificial than the life that he would have lived elsewhere, and being this close to the land was every bit as much of a spiritual experience as it was a laborious one.<br/><br/>That didn't mean, though, that any of this was going to tell him if Spiller, Pod, Homily and....of course Arrietty were all right.<br/><br/>Still, in the back of his mind, he knew that he wouldn't have been alive if it hadn't been for the incredible amount of encouragement that he had received from that one young girl for sure.<br/><br/>That was why he had hoped and prayed for her success and well-being. Finding that his admittedly well-deserved break had come to an end, he soon started to return to tossing the bales of hay onto a little chain elevator. Everything here was done in a fairly simple way that helped to promote somewhat more traditional farming practices than what might be found on other farms, and he had really come to love that aspect of working here even if it had served to increase the heavy load.<br/><br/>While he did at times take it easy, this was the only thing that had really helped to once more build up his strength to where it honestly should have been the entire time.