Chapter 641: A SURPRISE
Joyce probably nine years old right now, but her body as light as a five or six years old child, she was malnourished and was very skinny, so did the other four children that survived.
Aside from Joyce, there was a year old baby, two little girl around the age of two and seven and also a young boy in the age of five. They were in poor condition.
Cane gave his waterskin to them, in which they gulped it down and finished it.
"I am sorry, it’s finish..." the boy said sheepishly, but Cane simply ruffled his hair, while Lou stood behind the alpha and watched those pitiful and dirty children. He had clamped his mouth and said nothing, but he stayed away from them too, as if he was afraid they would dirty his cloak, yet a complicated feeling fleeted in his eyes.
"I knew it! I told you, right?! I have told you that luna Iris will come to save us!" Joyce said brightly to the other children, she showed her undying fate for the luna, but Cane felt this sharp pang.
No. When he came here, he didn’t have any intention to save them. He also had broken Iris’s heart by telling her saving the children in the orphanage was not his main priority, because there were a lot of things that happened at the same time and he couldn’t spare his time and risk the other plan to come here and save them.
This was not a plan that he had planned. But, in a way, indeed, it was Iris who had saved them. If she was not craving for that Golden Seed fruit, Cane wouldn’t have come here in the first place.
"I can’t send the letter to the luna again, because the hawk didn’t return the last time I sent a letter. I think the hawk was caught by the monster or the mean royal guards."
Cane cradled the baby in his arms, he stared at the poor baby for a while and immediately knew they really need to hurry back, because the baby didn’t look in good condition, his lips had turned purple.
"I only feed the baby with water and any food that I can find... but, the baby doesn’t like it," Joyce said sadly. She had tried her best to take care of the other children, since she was the oldest among them, but even so, she was still nine years old and this situation was too much on her weak and small shoulders to carry.
"You have done a great job to look after them." Cane ruffled her hair and Joyce beamed, but then her eyes turned even sadder.