"You came back!" Mort rejoiced as he saw Aster running towards them from behind another rock where she had been hiding all this time. She was finding it hard to face them but when greeted with such a warm smile half of her awkwardness and tension evaporated.
The sand sinking under her feet was hot and the sun beating down hadn't felt comfortable on her skin all this while that's he had waited for the outside in the sands but now that she had been able to help save them these minor inconveniences felt nothing to her.
She had been glad that she hadn't been any later than what she had already been.
