Cerulean Cape laughter of the past

John's god worked in miraculous ways it seemed. One moment Esma had been all on her own on the beach and in the next the kind man was standing there and addressing her. Her face lit up and she padded over to him and greeted with the sincerity of someone, who is glad to see an old friend. She had never really understood, what John's mission had been in the first place other than that it had been very important. Therefore she did not hold any grudge against him now. Esma was a person, who mostly lived in the present moment. Past did not bother her and future was a very abstract term. 

"Your god rewarded his faithful servant," she told him, but the intonation of the latter part of the sentence was asked almost like a question. "I am happy to see you being well too," she said. "No, I do not think I need anything. I am good."