At first, the caring-one, hurting-one, said nothing, but Kolchais knew how to wait – as did the guarding-one, watching as if the answer to Kolchais' question would reveal long-hunted danger.
Finally, Paiokp whispered, "I can't believe this is real. That this will last. I can only live each day as it comes and hope this won't be the day it is all torn from me again." Abruptly, ey stood up and went in the shelter, leaving Lefeng and Kolchais to speak without em.
"I know how ey feels," Lefeng said. "It was easier before we met you and Chotaikytsai. I could focus each day on what needed to be done and just forget… everything outside of that moment."
"I lived that way too when my family rejected me. But we can't stand still forever. If we do, we become dead things."
"Yes."