(Made me laugh, and I needed a laugh

)
The boy was waiting for him in the alley. He had opened the bag and found nothing in it but her walking stick. That was the only thing she ever carried in it
Alice waited in the doorway, listening to Arren run off. After a moment she followed
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Danika frowned as she looked to him as she looked at him then looked away again and shifted, wrapping her legs around the branch to stay in place She sighed and shook her head "Actually they are not my family, not my real one anyway. My real family disappeared four years ago. These people I stay with now are helping me find out what happened to them, I call them my family so I can hide"