-"Dad!"
A small girl leaped into Walt's arms. The alchemist who just got home laughed merrily as he caught her.
-"How did my sweetheart find her new school?"
-"They teach a lot of things I've never seen! There was the magic thing there and other stuff!" She was all smiles, trying to find the word to describe her experience.
Walt let her ramble on and on as he carried her to her bed. He didn't mind her talkative tongue. He even adored hearing her voice. Hearing her made him forget all the horrible things that were actually happening.
At some point, she suddenly started to cough uncontrollably. Walt quickly put her on the bed and made her drink a potion from a drawer nearby. Her situation only calmed down after a few minutes.
-"You okay?" He asked with concern.
-"Yeah..."
The tone of her voice didn't really match her answer. The enthusiasm from earlier completely disappeared. She just put on a fake smile as she was gasping for breath. She was clearly in a lot of pain.
