Crystal's POV:
My heart sank. I made this wooden whistle by copying the one Rufus had made for me in the past. Rufus now scrutinized the whistle carefully. Did it shake loose some memory of his?
Laura and I glanced at each other at the same time and guessed each other's thoughts. She was also afraid that Rufus would remember something.
After studying the whistle for a long time, Rufus turned to me and asked, "Did you make this yourself?" Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ Find ɴøᴠel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
"Of course," I replied firmly.
I was a little flustered and didn't know what was running through his mind.
My own mind was thoroughly muddled up. But whatever.
familiar, he wouldn't remember anything if I continued to insist that I
intention for carving this whistle was to make it convenient
through my veins and I could face Rufus' questions
pointed look and commented with a
habit as me."
the meaning behind his words. But judging from the expression on his face, it didn't look like he had remembered anything from the past. From
whistle to me. He pointed to a small cross on its inner side and said, "When I was a child, I attended a woodwork class for a while. I liked to leave a subtle mark on all my creations. The position and shape of my chosen mark are exactly the
was stunned. Judging from Laura's helpless expression,
is this just a coincidence?" Rufus gazed at me with
assumed this tiny mark was also a necessary part of the whistle, so I kept it. How would
me?" Rufus didn't let this matter
to a grinding halt and I couldn't cook up any sensible reason. I couldn't claim that this was just a coincidence. No one would believe that. My copy was so accurate that even the position and shape of his signature were perfectly identical. There
face and Rufus couldn't
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