How Green Becomes Wood

[pandakatiefominz]

Ivy pointed down at his large boot, "This?"

 

[BookKnight]

"This is a big shoe," Xander told her seriously. "It's a good shoe. It makes owies go away."

 

[pandakatiefominz]

She knelt down beside it, and would've begun to touch it had her father not firmly told her not to the second she began to stretch out her hand. Instead, then, she walked to the crutches, pointed, and again asked, "This?"

 

[BookKnight]

Xander stared at the crutches. "I do not know how to explain those," he finally said. "Hop-abouts. To help with the owie."

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"She will understand better about them once she sees you use them," Dark said, secretly worried they would frighten her but not wanting to express that concern for the sake of his drug-addled son.

 

[BookKnight]

Xander nodded, content with that. "You'll soon see, Mini," he told her and then smiled. "Heh. That rhymed."

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"Are you looking forwards to seeing your friends tomorrow?" Dark asked, bending to pick up Ivy since he could tell she was still a bit unsettled.

 

[BookKnight]

"Yeah. Sloan's good. Milo's good. Peter's pretty good," Xander listed off idly. "Good folk. Becky's too hyper, but she's good for Alec."

Alec made a face at him.