“Mommy, mommy! “ Squealed the little girl, running to her mother with a little boy right behind her.
“Can I go to the festival with Drake?” She asked her mother hopefully, but Niobe answered her with a sad face and shook her head.
“I’m sorry, Aurora, but no. You can’t go to the festival, you know that.”
Aurora nodded her head, but she was disappointed. Drake, who was now ten years old, put his hand on her shoulder and she smiled up at him, but her eyes were still sad.
“Don’t worry Rory, we’ll bring you a present from the festival, won’t we uncle? “ Drake looked at his uncle Pealor, who just nodded, not saying a thing.
His nephew seemed to like the six-year-old girl but he wasn’t sure how he felt about her. She was just a child, of course, and it wasn’t anything personal, but ever
