After they could calm down a little bit more, Susan and Clay departed.
"Hey! Just now I noticed how much damaged you are! What happened out there!? Did you exaggerate again, Clay!?" She began to pass her hands across his body, analyzing every inch of it.
Clay rolled his eyes. She always had the same reaction once he came home with so much damage on his body.
'I know that she really worries about me and all, but sometimes it is a hassle. I don't want to be treated like a kid by… by, well, another kid.'
For him, Susan was always going to be a kid. There was a strange phenomenon happening with her, which made her age faster than the average human. Before, she had the appearance of a normal nine-year-old girl, maybe even younger than that. However, in those days she had the face and body of a seventeen to an eighteen-year-old girl.
