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"Uncle! Where have you been?!" I asked Arafunn, I was quite angered he hadn't showed up for breakfast.
"Hahaha, sorry, I kind of got a bit too busy in the bar last night and I enjoyed a nice night with a handsome and burly man that- Ahem! I mean, I've been busy strengthening my magic!" He said while trying to swallow the words he said seconds earlier.
"Huh, you're bad at lying." My mother facepalmed.
"C-Come on Faylen, give me a break." My uncle laughed.
These last years he had been getting more cheerful and less melancholic. I don't know if I've been able to help him though, but my mother said that part of his development was all the times I've cheered him up, and of course, the words of everyone else.