Love Them, Regardless

[The Gradral Household]

"Rosa, can you heat up some water? I want to take a shower."

Rosa looked at her brother as he emerged from his room, his upper body naked. With a keen eye of a sister, she scanned his muscular, chiseled torso which glistened with sweat under the lantern's light, and frowned. 

"You've lost weight," she chastised as she leaned back in her chair and closed the book she had been reading. The few days after their parents' death, Reynard and Rosa had spent together the time they could cut out. Rosa had taken a break from work and had informed her business partner, Sephni, to take over the stall for a couple weeks before her return.