epilogue (Tiana)

Of course, that wasn't to be the case. Even if I could stay here all summer, by the end I would still have to go back to that boarding school. No. it was better for me to leave before I got too used to being here. I would stay for Sunday to maybe teach them a thing or two about worship, then another day or two just to see them start some of those new games we bought that day. I felt that would make them more worth it, along with everything else we'd been through that day. Plus, I was also kind of interested in seeing what they were like. The Kingdom Hearts game was certainly a must before I went back…but where would I go to?

The school won't be open again until the end of summer. I'd never much been welcome with our foster mother since she moved in with her new partner. I suppose I could ask my older siblings if I could stay with them for a time, or maybe I could try just wandering and making my own way. That was what my younger brother and sister had done after all.

I often wonder how my dear sister was able to manage through all this. I guessed it was the Crugger in her but since I was also part Carpenter and Jay seemed to be almost enjoying this…I could never have coped with all this danger around, no more than I could be accepted into either family. I knew Thias father would never have allowed me to stay here with them, even if I had wanted to. I wasn't like them. This kind of life wasn't for me. my older siblings all seemed to be branching out and starting families of their own and I didn't want to be an extra burden for any of them. That was part of the reason I decided to go to boarding school in the first place. So that I didn't have to trouble anyone from my supposed 'family'. I could become someone apart from them. Make my own way.

There was possibly only one thing I had in common with all of them and that was that we all loved our precious little Thia.