For now, it had seemed like no one else was here, and therefore he was relatively content and comfortable with speaking to Arrietty.<br/><br/>That meant a lot to him. This had actually been the thing that he had wanted more in his life than anything else at all.<br/><br/>He felt his heart drop into his stomach when she had flinched, though any fear that he might have been illustrating was quickly eliminated by the fact that she had looked happy to see him in a few moments. It would have seemed that she had no longer needed the clip, which meant that he was just going to continue taking good care of it.<br/><br/>Eventually he tried to wave a hand from underneath the covers, "My heart? Well, I had to undergo surgery, but you taught me how to believe in myself...I was able to survive, and each day, working here...well, I get a little stronger." He swallowed deeply and looked toward her with a slight bow of his head.<br/><br/>"And...I owe it all to you."<br/><br/>Of course he had to be careful, but the farm work was so far very good for him. He hadn't much been able to exercise before, and before he met her he was perhaps a bit listless and even consigned to dying.<br/><br/>Arrietty had shown him that he could have another way, and for now he wanted to get better. He realized that the path to wellness was one that would take a great deal of time to walk, but he also realized that he was making a few steps every single day. It would take a while, but he knew that hard work was its own reward.<br/><br/>Soon enough, though, he was forced to cover everything up as Arrietty ducked away. "No no, I was not speaking to anyone. That is Toyama-sensei speaking." He was, of course, referring to the conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra that he had been listening to.<br/><br/>At this point, Sho figured that the farmer had grown accustomed to him listening to a prerecorded performance on the radio at night, and he assumed that nothing more would come of it.<br/><br/>"I would be happy to go and check up on Suta. Do you think that it's the time?" Naturally he pulled up the covers and started to stand so that he could go get changed and go out to check on the cow. Sho looked quite excited by the news, which he probably shouldn't have been considering the heart condition that he was discussing mere moments ago. He wondered if he would have to get clean again to go to sleep after he went out to the barn or not.<br/><br/>Regardless, his hands were behind him and ready to work if Arrietty's plan failed in any way. While she might have thought that having Sho know that they were here was dangerous, in his mind it was sort of his duty to do whatever he could to continue disguising the fact that they were indeed here.<br/><br/>After all, he felt that he owed his life to her, so these duties had perhaps made some sense to him.<br/><br/>With an exhalation he smiled, hoping to make a cover for Arrietty's plan, even though he wasn't sure what was going on with the pillow.<br/><br/>"Just let me get my boots on!"