The following morning was like every other morning recently, with Byia arriving late for breakfast and still half asleep.
After eating her breakfast while making a huge effort to stay awake and to smile at her worried mother, who thought it was weird for her to be so tired lately, Byia left home with Paullu, joining a tail-waving Rodhocetus at the front gate and their morning group, who came to get them.
Byia noticed that morning there were only Drezara and Lodon. Guyi was nowhere around. Lodon explained while Byia was hugging Drezara, “I hope you don’t mind, but it will be just me coming in the morning from now on. I finally convinced Guyi to go get Nayima to School every morning, starting today. That guy is stubborn; he kept saying he didn’t want to!”
“Really? How did you convince him
