Butterfly, let's promise to always be together.
I remembered Kiel's words from long ago as we ran.
So that was the promise…
I apologized silently in my head. To Kiel. To Ms. Cat. To my family. They must have seen me as a failure for being such a disobedient girl, but they never realized that it was because I met Isuru that I began to hate people less. I still can't stand most people, but it's an improvement.
Perhaps I just needed to see the world in a different perspective.
"Are you contemplating on life?" Isuru asked as we sat under a tree for a break.
"Yeah," I said.
"It's good to think about your life once in a while."
I turned to face him. "More importantly… Prof. Dog said you were critically injured."
Isuru sighed. "He might have exaggerated a bit. Well, he did faint from seeing me lose so much blood."
"That sounds like a critical injury to me."
"Well, anyway… I've recovered."
"Your recovery skills are amazing."