"Will you be alright by yourself?" Phoebe Huxley asked.
Rosalind Green smiled. "I'll be fine. What could happen in broad daylight?"
She followed the same road back toward the Lowe family's home. It wasn't far—Vessaria's urban area was quite small back then, and you could walk from the east side to the west in about an hour.
Tang Xiaonan and Rory were playing in the yard with June Lowe keeping them company. Jim Thorne was so bored he couldn't stop yawning. 'I really want to go out and play,' he thought, 'but I have to watch my sister. Ugh.'
"Tang Xiaonan, Jim, it's time to go home."
Rosalind Green's gentle voice came from the gateway. Seeing that June's mother wasn't around, she decided not to go inside.
"Ms. Lowe, I'll come play with you again next time!"
Tang Xiaonan clapped her hands clean and gave Rory a pat on the head. Jim Thorne had already run to the gate long ago. 'This place is no fun at all,' he thought. 'I'd rather be in the fields catching loaches.'
