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"Merely lost in thought," the caramel King said with a rueful smile, as it was something he could not help from happening. There was hardly a time when there was not something on his mind. "There was a young girl recently on our lands, and she reminded me of someone," he explained. Vigilante knew it was no longer important to think about. The impudent girl had left without too much of an argument, or at least, not in front of him, at any rate, though she had scrapped with Terra. He had not been there to see it, so perhaps it had been instigated by both parties. Again, it was not something that mattered anymore.
Wise jade eyes studied the small boy who looked every bit the same as his father, but very little of his mother was visible in his features. The King had not seen much of Ever in recent times, and perhaps he had not seen her regularly since before his own sons had been born the previous December. It seemed that the adopted children did not linger around home as long as the blood children did, and even Noah had left very early. The circumstances had been very different, though. "How are you, Ezra?" he asked, studying the father closely now.
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