Ankyra Sound To the promised land

Arrille understood a little more, her adopted parents were closer to her than her real parents. He never could understand how that could happen, yet it had with him in his travels with Maude. "What about your mother? Was she not kind? My mother, she was the closest thing I had."

Arrille sadly nodded. "I don't want to think about all that" he replied, not taking notice of how Chusi moved closer in an attempt to comfort him.