[Continuing from Chapter 84]
"...So I told him to mind his own business!" Ben exclaimed and everyone burst out laughing. He had been telling everyone about a hilarious experience he had a couple weeks ago regarding some guy he had been gambling with. I didn't know the first thing about gambling, and I was much too nervous to laugh anyways, so I kept smiling, trying not to seem suspicious.
"I can't see Mama anywhere," Sven muttered mid-conversation. "Has she gone out to use the lavatories?"
Everyone shrugged.
"She's an admirable woman, Mama is," Sidmund said as he chewed on a biscuit. "Even though her husband and daughter died before her, she's never once shown any signs of giving up, never, I say."
Everyone nodded in agreement, even me. She really was admirable, considering everything she went through.
