Sungjin and Amelia spent quite some time running around the field hand in hand.
They were not playing any particular game. But the two children felt that simply being together was more than enough to make them happy.
Was it because their appearances had become younger?
It was a strange sensation, as though the innocent heart of a child were coexisting with the personality of an adult.
How long did they spend their time so leisurely?
When the two children returned to the lakeshore, they joined their strength as though they had made some prior agreement and set a small rowboat afloat.
All the while, the insignificant little cluster of light continued following them, endlessly scattering its faint glow.
[Isn’t it strange?]
Amelia, resting her head against the side of the boat, spoke while looking up at the tiny light circling through the air.
[It is clearly something I have never seen before, yet the longer I look at it, the more familiar it somehow feels.]
The girl delicately blinked her eyelashes for a moment, seemingly lost in thought.
Then, as though something had suddenly occurred to her, she lifted her head and looked brightly at Sungjin.
[That’s it! Morres, that light resembles, somehow, the warmth I always felt whenever I looked at you! So that cannot be something you only discovered this time. You simply did not realize…