ACHOO—
At Moonflow Stream, Igor sneezed unexpectedly.
He didn't know what caused the sneeze, so he could only rub his nose and shrug. Anyway, I don't think anyone misses me, he mused. Even if they did, it wouldn't be for long. Most people who might think of me are too busy struggling with their own lives; they spend far more time worrying than thinking about me.
Take his father, for instance. Every day, his father had to calculate how much firewood he needed to chop to feed the family. His father had been very supportive of him going to the Yonder Travel Academy. However, his father also felt a bit reluctant, as Igor was in his prime for chopping firewood. Without him, the entire burden of this labor fell upon his father. The whole family depended on the money his father earned from selling firewood to buy rice and oil, and his two younger sisters were still so small.
