B"ehind the counter, Ephemaia smiled and lifted the rag she'd been wiping the counter with, pointing it at the man who'd just come in. "Don't you 'fair maiden' me, young man.Ah, Ephie! Just the fair maiden I was hoping to see this morning!"
Caleb is distant from the other homomarinuses, he isn't really like the others, he's not very adventurous, and he stays close to home, until he meets William at least.
It was too impossible, and Adrian didn’t want to get their hopes up. But Rocky was alive, and here they both were reuniting. It was hard to even believe, but it brought a sense of happiness that made them feel as if they could burst with joy. Rocky had lived.