Well, Sho should certainly have thought about perhaps fixing the glider. He would have been able to do it easily, even if his fingers were perhaps a bit larger than most who would have worked on it.<br/><br/>To make matters more pressing, to Sho at least, he understood the kind of person her father was. Well, at least he remembered Pod's personality ever so slightly from the past. He seemed like quite a stalwart individual, and the human figured that individual Borrower would certainly have liked the prototype to be returned in one piece, even if he didn't know the whole story behind it or what Pod was like these days.<br/><br/>"So are you going to have to admit to your father you broke it? I admire that sort of honesty."<br/><br/>In no way was Sho being condescending at all, but rather he was serious. He admired that aspect of Arrietty's personality for sure. Eventually, though, he silenced himself so that he could have gotten ready to head outside. He didn't want the farmer thinking that he'd gone insane in all of this and grown to speak to himself.<br/><br/>Next time, it would have seemed, he'd have to turn the radio on just a little bit more loudly so while it wouldn't have sounded obnoxious, it would have been harder for the other individual to hear what he was saying. While he might not have had proof that his employer thought he might have been loosing it, he did end up with a bit of an inkling.<br/><br/>Naturally he wasn't at all able to watch the girl's descent down, and even if he could he figured that could have given too much away anyway. Outside there were many dangers he was sure. There were numerous things that could have harmed her, and he wished that he could have accompanied her the entire way.<br/><br/>Then again, he supposed, none of those things were nearly be as bad as if a human instead had caught her.<br/><br/>While he wasn't really sure what she had been up to while he was getting prepared and making the trip himself, which was naturally quite a bit easier for obvious reasons, he wouldn't have interrupted her anyway. Perhaps that made it best that he wasn't sure where she was borrowing things from at the time.<br/><br/>Sho, of course, had known that his boss was a widow. The farmer's wife used to take care of the farm as well, which might have helped to explain why he was so in need. What used to be a 10 person job done by two people was now done by only one.<br/><br/>Regardless of any of this, though, it seemed like fate and her plans had brought them together once more. Once they were outside no one could have at all have heard their conversations anyway, so they would have been free to talk.<br/><br/>Certain that the cow wasn't actually giving birth at the moment, but not at all slowing down and risking it, Sho was quickly making his way outside.<br/><br/>For a time he didn't actually say anything, but focused both on the mission that he was trying to accomplish out here, and on the words that she had spoken. Perhaps he tried to bury himself in his work to avoid having to answer them, but in reality it only took a few moments. The cow in question was feeling great pain from her pregnancy, it might have seemed but she was not giving birth.<br/><br/>He wasn't entirely sure how, but the connection that Sho had shared with the animals over time had allowed him to know fairly well when things were going to happen and such.<br/><br/>What seemed like an eternity was not, but this did give him plenty of time to now visit with her, since he planned to do all the work he could now, perhaps in part to get it done with, and perhaps also to keep not only Arrietty company but the cow as well. She probably would have noticed how good of care he had come to take when dealing with the animals here.<br/><br/>"You mean when he passes away, right? I know one thing for sure; he will go again to visit with the woman that left him here on this Earth."<br/><br/>Sho's thoughtful comment perhaps underscored the fact that he should have been glad to not know where she had been borrowing from for the time being.<br/><br/>"To answer your first question, though, well, I took this job after it had been suggested to me that I needed to find something that would build me up strong. You may remember that my heart was weak, and they did a great deal of work on it. You might also remember, of course, that you were the reason I was able to make it through it. The farmer here needed someone to help him care for the farm. I have gotten much stronger since then."<br/><br/>Emotionally, of course, it was his meeting with her that had strengthened him up to begin with. Since they were alone for now, he wasn't going to waste any further time and wanted to do everything that he could to catch up with her.<br/><br/>Time was, of course, a luxury that he had learned how to conserve more than anything else. He had wanted to ensure that regardless of what happened, he would have been able to spend as much as he could have with the little people that had been so fleeting for a time.<br/><br/>It wasn't an obsession or anything that was unhealthy in the furthest stretch of the imagination. That wasn't it at all. Rather, his separation from the Borrowers had taught him how impermanent every moment is, and how much he should appreciate everything while he could still hang onto it.<br/><br/>All things were limited and all good things ultimately come to an end. As a result, he wanted to remind himself that he had made good on things while he had the chance to enjoy them.