How do you gain someone's trust?
By spending time with them, observing what they do, and learning what kind of person they are.
I thought something like that would happen when Chris Laergas told me, 'You have to earn my trust first.'
However... the reality was a little different from what I had imagined.
A week would be enough, he said.
And there was a reason for that.
Recalling the past few days, I took a deep breath.
I set the tea I had brewed aside and glanced out of the cabin I was in, even if only out of the corner of my eye.
Just like the day I arrived here, Chris Laergas was sitting in a chair, basking in the sun.
The only difference was that this time there were three more people with him.
One was his daughter, Claire Laergas.
She was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl with hair the same color as her father's, but eyes that were most likely her mother's golden yellow. She possessed a healing skill so powerful I couldn't even comprehend it.
