"I like it," Chris smiled naturally in response, "Brother Thompson is very nice to me. He always brings me toys, and he even brought Xaviar to celebrate my birthday with me, and..."
"And what?" Anna asked anxiously.
"And I've noticed that Brother Thompson looks at Sister differently from how he looks at other people," Chris stated very confidently.
Anna's heart immediately missed a beat, and she quickly pressed on, "How is it different?"
"It's like, the way Brother Thompson looks at Sister is just like how Goofy from our village looks at a bone, with eyes all shining."
Anna's face instantly fell; Goofy from their village was a dog, and Chris had actually compared Jeremy Thompson to a dog and her to a bone.
The longing a dog has for a bone is like wanting to eat it completely clean, leaving not even the bone, isn't it?