Zeno pursed his lips. Children. Another one of his weaknesses.
These creatures seemed to have greater intuition than adults because, somehow, they could subtly detect that Zeno wasn't originally from Earth.
Zeno has experienced taking care of children. Well, some of them were even his own. However, he couldn't say he was an expert because he wasn't around their lives long enough.
"Quiet now," he said to the little girl with pigtails, but she only cried louder.
"I do not have anything to give to you. I'm just here to see if your father is well."
"Oh, do we have a visitor?" a soft, gentle voice suddenly asked, opening the door wider to reveal a handsome man with sparkling eyes.
The woman, with short brown hair and weary yet kind eyes, gasped as soon as she saw him. Of course, she knew who he was! Her husband's savior!
She tried to calm the little girl down by patting her shoulder and smiling. However, the little girl still sniffed and hid behind her mother's thigh.
