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    “You’re right, Noa is nice and smart. She’s still a pleasure to be around if you find the right way to be with her.”

    “Well …… that and sneak in another secret, Noa once told me that she gets a little stressed out when she gets along with you.”

    At that, Leon raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, “Why the pressure?”

    “I told her that Dad was a school bully when he was in school, and you can tell by the way he taught you that he used to be a very good student too, with lots of scholarships and all sorts of firsts and championships and whatnot.”

    Lossweather said, “Noa has a very typical dragon mentality, longing for the strong and aspiring to be strong, and you are such a …… strong person in her mind.”

    Leon scratched his cheek, “I thought her dad was a weak nerd in her mind.”

    Loseweather hid a soft laugh, “That’s not true, she actually admires you.”

    Splat–

    Lois Visser slipped off her heels and curled up her slender legs, wrapping her arms around her knees and resting her paws gently on the edge of the bench.

    “Remember the days when you first woke up and Noa was avoiding you and wouldn’t see you?”

    Leon nodded.

    “I didn’t really understand what she was thinking at the time, but what I do know is that she would often sneak into the nursery to check on you even while you were in a coma. Occasionally, when I caught her, she excused herself and said she was there to see Mourne.”

    Leon smacked his lips and commented in another burst of insight, “Twisty and tough-talking this is kind of like you, too.”

    “Tough talk is obviously more like you, isn’t it?”

    “I’m a tough talker? Are you kidding me, I’ve always told the truth, when have I ever been tough?”

    “Gee whiz, I didn’t have a stiff upper lip anyway.”

    “Well, me too.”

    Lois Visser lowered her eyes, and continued

    “But then again, things like blood ties …… are pretty amazing sometimes.”

    “Oh? How?”

    “Or you are in a coma in those two years, I take them both alone, sometimes busy, to Anna they are useless, always crying, how to coax can not be coaxed.”

    Lois Visser said, “But guess what? No matter how much they cry or fuss, just put them next to you and they’ll quiet right down.”

    Leon’s heart leapt with joy and he asked expectantly, “Really?”

    “Really. They were a lot of nothing back then, but it seemed like just being next to you made them feel completely safe.”

    Lois Visser fiddled with her fingers, breathed a slow sigh of relief, and asked.

    “The daughters are lovely, aren’t they?”

    For the first time, Leon nodded vigorously as he agreed so much with Los Visser’s words.

    That’s the way it is with blood.

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