"...!"
"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you back then because of my pride."
Ellie's pupils shook widely. Soon after, memories of the past began to piece together one by one. Could it be that the boy who came running to her, asking to be hidden from the wicked witch...
"How... you, you."
"Do you remember the cave where you hid me...? That place, being there with you, was the only sanctuary in my life."
"This can't be... How can we meet again like this..."
"I still have the drawing you made for me. You drew light into my life that was only darkness. I realized that too late..."
Ellie smiled faintly through her tears. At times in her life, she too had recalled that boy from back then. She had wanted to meet again, just once, that boy who had been her only salvation in her childhood. She had wondered if he had escaped from the wicked witch and was living happily now.
But to think she hadn't recognized him even though he had been right beside her all this time... Tears flowed endlessly.