Kitori smiled a little and hugged Lora tight.<span style="color: #a64dff">"As long as I'm touching you you won't sink. I won't let you get hurt in the water." </span>She looked back at Sharindia and winced a little<span style="color: #a64dff">. "I have done those things, but then father started to visit me more and talk to me. He would tell me stores about my sisters and his adventures... He said he wished I could be a good girl and come home some day. So I learned to talk better and tried to be better for him."</span><br/><br/>"Alright, little pastry chef. Here's the first of your bajillion cookies, I hope you like it because we have a ton of them now." He offered Relene a cookie too and then got them both a glass of milk to go with it. "Well Amber, how is it?"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>