เรื่อง APAIMANEE 2086

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">4th family: 'cs_prajad2'">November, 2088

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">There was nothing family: 'cs_prajad2'">left of family: 'cs_prajad2'">Huren. Not in the family: 'cs_prajad2'">clouds, not in any local storage.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Levana survived the family: 'cs_prajad2'">gunshot wound, but she was not the family: 'cs_prajad1'">same woman. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee messed family: 'cs_prajad2'">with her family: 'cs_prajad2'">head, taking her family: 'cs_prajad1'">memories out for editing and ing family: 'cs_prajad2'">them back in, adjusting family: 'cs_prajad2'">them family: 'cs_prajad2'">until she was pleased family: 'cs_prajad2'">with the results.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">The public family: 'cs_prajad1'">only knew family: 'cs_prajad2'">that Levana family: 'cs_prajad1'">resigned Langka for family: 'cs_prajad2'">medical reasons, and family: 'cs_prajad1'">although Langka’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">people suspected family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee had something to do family: 'cs_prajad2'">with it, family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee made no move to family: 'cs_prajad1'">seize control of family: 'cs_prajad1'">their business, so they family: 'cs_prajad2'">left it at family: 'cs_prajad2'">that.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">To most family: 'cs_prajad1'">people, Levana simply family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to enjoy her family: 'cs_prajad2'">early retirement. She would be moving to family: 'cs_prajad2'">Shin-Yokohama in a few weeks. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Before family: 'cs_prajad2'">that, family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee had to family: 'cs_prajad1'">check her family: 'cs_prajad1'">memories one family: 'cs_prajad2'">last time for consistency.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee put her family: 'cs_prajad2'">gloves back on as she family: 'cs_prajad1'">watched Levana leave.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You will family: 'cs_prajad1'">watch over family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee as well, family: 'cs_prajad2'">right?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Yes, I family: 'cs_prajad2'">will.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You will never family: 'cs_prajad1'">betray me.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I never family: 'cs_prajad2'">will. You’re my family!”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee family: 'cs_prajad1'">smiled ever so slightly.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Good. Have a family: 'cs_prajad1'">good rest of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">day.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’ll get back to family: 'cs_prajad1'">work now. family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’ll make family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure the acquisition family: 'cs_prajad2'">plan goes smoothly.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Walee, who was family: 'cs_prajad1'">drinking coffee family: 'cs_prajad1'">outfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">side, family: 'cs_prajad1'">watched Levana leave, family: 'cs_prajad2'">then entered family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee’s room.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Still family: 'cs_prajad1'">working on expanding family: 'cs_prajad1'">your netfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">work family: 'cs_prajad1'">into Japan?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Of family: 'cs_prajad2'">course. Efamily: 'cs_prajad2'">verything is going as family: 'cs_prajad2'">planned.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Walee swirled the family: 'cs_prajad2'">liquid in her cup, a family: 'cs_prajad1'">habit she picked up Suwan.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t control efamily: 'cs_prajad2'">verything. You need a family: 'cs_prajad2'">backup family: 'cs_prajad2'">plan for when family: 'cs_prajad1'">things aren’t going the way you family: 'cs_prajad2'">want it to.” The investigator sat down on family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">work family: 'cs_prajad1'">table. “family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad2'">worried family: 'cs_prajad2'">that…”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“It is family: 'cs_prajad1'">fine, I have the family: 'cs_prajad2'">backup family: 'cs_prajad2'">plans. Besides, I family: 'cs_prajad1'">trust in my family: 'cs_prajad1'">people. If I overlook family: 'cs_prajad1'">something, they will help me patch up the family: 'cs_prajad2'">holes.” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee massaged her family: 'cs_prajad2'">temples. “Speaking of family: 'cs_prajad2'">plans, do you have any dinner family: 'cs_prajad2'">plans tonight?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">backup family: 'cs_prajad2'">plan if I say I family: 'cs_prajad1'">already have one?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I family: 'cs_prajad2'">could invite you family: 'cs_prajad1'">another time, family: 'cs_prajad2'">or…” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee giggled. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“Take you away by surprise.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“No, family: 'cs_prajad1'">thanks. I happen to be family: 'cs_prajad2'">free tofamily: 'cs_prajad2'">day.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“How family: 'cs_prajad1'">about a laid-back dinner at my family: 'cs_prajad2'">house? We can invite others family: 'cs_prajad2'">along, including family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">boss.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Walee thought of a family: 'cs_prajad2'">conversation she had family: 'cs_prajad2'">with Suwan family: 'cs_prajad1'">years ago. He told her family: 'cs_prajad2'">that she family: 'cs_prajad2'">should talk to family: 'cs_prajad1'">more family: 'cs_prajad1'">people outside of family: 'cs_prajad1'">work, and look at how far she family: 'cs_prajad2'">got. She family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to know family: 'cs_prajad1'">what love family: 'cs_prajad1'">felt like family: 'cs_prajad2'">minus the physical family: 'cs_prajad1'">aspects, and was it.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">She family: 'cs_prajad2'">once thought Crystal’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">boss would not be interested in family: 'cs_prajad1'">having relationships, but family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee family: 'cs_prajad2'">surprised her.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“It is in family: 'cs_prajad1'">human nature to family: 'cs_prajad2'">want to love and family: 'cs_prajad2'">fall in love. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Being able to love is family: 'cs_prajad2'">proof family: 'cs_prajad2'">that you are family: 'cs_prajad2'">still family: 'cs_prajad1'">human.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan and Su made family: 'cs_prajad2'">plans to visit Sin at Koh family: 'cs_prajad1'">Kaew Phitsadan. The family: 'cs_prajad2'">twins started family: 'cs_prajad1'">prepping for the trip family: 'cs_prajad2'">since late family: 'cs_prajad1'">July, right family: 'cs_prajad1'">after the Huren family: 'cs_prajad2'">mission. Sud family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to visit his mfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">other, and Suwan family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to family: 'cs_prajad1'">take a long family: 'cs_prajad2'">break, so they were on family: 'cs_prajad2'">board. Nil family: 'cs_prajad2'">declined, family: 'cs_prajad2'">since they got a new job family: 'cs_prajad2'">sifting through family: 'cs_prajad1'">Levana’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">memories and answering family: 'cs_prajad1'">life’s big questions.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">It was smooth family: 'cs_prajad1'">sailing to the island. Sud family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to family: 'cs_prajad2'">stop for a swim, so they family: 'cs_prajad2'">stopped the boat. The boy jumped family: 'cs_prajad1'">into the family: 'cs_prajad1'">water while family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan stood on family: 'cs_prajad1'">deck to supervise.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Suwan family: 'cs_prajad2'">came family: 'cs_prajad2'">with a drink in family: 'cs_prajad2'">hand, nodding to family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan who was family: 'cs_prajad2'">wearing swimming trunks.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Nice family: 'cs_prajad1'">tattoo. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Dual tigers, for family: 'cs_prajad1'">protection and strength of family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind, and the other family: 'cs_prajad2'">one’s the nine family: 'cs_prajad1'">peaks, for invincibility, family: 'cs_prajad2'">right?” He gestured to family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan’s back. family: 'cs_prajad2'">There were two family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">striped tigers family: 'cs_prajad1'">glaring at each family: 'cs_prajad2'">other, surrounded by family: 'cs_prajad1'">ancient text, and family: 'cs_prajad1'">above family: 'cs_prajad2'">them was a pattern family: 'cs_prajad2'">with nine family: 'cs_prajad2'">squiggly lines.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure are family: 'cs_prajad1'">knowledgeable, investigator. I had a family: 'cs_prajad1'">monk do it for me. He was family: 'cs_prajad2'">famous for his skills in family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">tattooing cyborgs.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I did not know family: 'cs_prajad1'">monks do family: 'cs_prajad2'">that nowadays.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“They’re just family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">tattoos for my own family: 'cs_prajad2'">peace of family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind. family: 'cs_prajad2'">Looks nice family: 'cs_prajad2'">though, don’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">they?” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan absentfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">mindedly family: 'cs_prajad2'">touched his back, his family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind drifting to his family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother on the island. “Sin family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to get a family: 'cs_prajad1'">tattoo as well, and I told him family: 'cs_prajad2'">that family: 'cs_prajad2'">it’s his own skin family: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s inking, so family: 'cs_prajad2'">think carefully family: 'cs_prajad1'">about it. He family: 'cs_prajad2'">couldn’t just family: 'cs_prajad1'">strip family: 'cs_prajad2'">them off like how I family: 'cs_prajad2'">change my artificial skin.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“What did he say?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“He showed up the family: 'cs_prajad2'">next day family: 'cs_prajad2'">with a family: 'cs_prajad1'">yaksha on his back, family: 'cs_prajad2'">that young man.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Suwan laughed as he family: 'cs_prajad1'">watched Sud family: 'cs_prajad1'">splash family: 'cs_prajad1'">about, family: 'cs_prajad1'">imagining himself as a family: 'cs_prajad2'">father.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“To be hfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">onest, family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’mfamily:'cs_prajad1'; "> family: 'cs_prajad2'">veryfamily:'cs_prajad1'; "> nervous family: 'cs_prajad1'">about meeting my family: 'cs_prajad2'">nephew. Who family: 'cs_prajad1'">would’ve thought? family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m such a family: 'cs_prajad2'">social butterfly, and Sin was nice to me the family: 'cs_prajad2'">last time we met.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Maybe family: 'cs_prajad2'">you’re nervous family: 'cs_prajad1'">about how family: 'cs_prajad2'">he’d family: 'cs_prajad2'">changed family: 'cs_prajad2'">throughout the family: 'cs_prajad1'">years.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Suwan thought family: 'cs_prajad1'">about the new family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee. They family: 'cs_prajad1'">talked regularly through the family: 'cs_prajad2'">chat, but they were no longer family: 'cs_prajad1'">brothers.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Maybe. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">still family: 'cs_prajad2'">want to meet family: 'cs_prajad1'">him, though.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">When they family: 'cs_prajad1'">reached Koh family: 'cs_prajad1'">Kaew Phitsadan, the Old Master family: 'cs_prajad2'">came to family: 'cs_prajad1'">greet family: 'cs_prajad2'">them and asked family: 'cs_prajad2'">them to family: 'cs_prajad1'">stay at his house on the family: 'cs_prajad2'">hills. The guests family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">wanted to see Sin as soon as family: 'cs_prajad2'">possible, but the old man family: 'cs_prajad2'">stopped family: 'cs_prajad2'">them.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Sin showed up the family: 'cs_prajad2'">next family: 'cs_prajad2'">day. He grew family: 'cs_prajad2'">even bigger and family: 'cs_prajad2'">tanner, and family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan joked family: 'cs_prajad1'">about how his family: 'cs_prajad1'">baby family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother befamily: 'cs_prajad2'">came a family: 'cs_prajad2'">full-fledged fisherman. Suwan was just family: 'cs_prajad1'">happy to see his nephew, family: 'cs_prajad1'">although they family: 'cs_prajad2'">barely knew each other.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Where’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">mom?” Sud tugged his family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother’s arm. family: 'cs_prajad2'">There was an obvious family: 'cs_prajad2'">discomfort on the older family: 'cs_prajad1'">sibling’s face.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s not family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">feeling too well, so sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s trying not to see family: 'cs_prajad1'">people, in family: 'cs_prajad2'">case she got something contagious.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Holy family: 'cs_prajad2'">smokes, is the start of a family: 'cs_prajad1'">plague? Are we going to be the family: 'cs_prajad1'">ones taking the germ back to family: 'cs_prajad1'">mainland?” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan raised a family: 'cs_prajad1'">brow, family: 'cs_prajad2'">then pulled Sin off to the family: 'cs_prajad1'">side, away others.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sin, be hfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">onest family: 'cs_prajad2'">with me. She isn’t family: 'cs_prajad1'">really sick, is she?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Seeing his former family: 'cs_prajad1'">mentor’s eyes, Sin cracked.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“She… I guess you can family: 'cs_prajad1'">come see her. family: 'cs_prajad2'">Only you. Not Su. Not anyone else.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan family: 'cs_prajad2'">came to family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee’s old family: 'cs_prajad2'">house, where Sin family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">lived. He tried to family: 'cs_prajad1'">hide his surprise when the family: 'cs_prajad2'">nameless woman who was family: 'cs_prajad2'">Sud’s mother family: 'cs_prajad2'">came out to family: 'cs_prajad1'">greet him.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sin, family: 'cs_prajad2'">that’s…family: 'cs_prajad1'">yours, family: 'cs_prajad2'">right?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">The young man simply nodded. He was not family: 'cs_prajad2'">ashamed, or family: 'cs_prajad1'">proud. He just accepted it.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan did not know family: 'cs_prajad1'">what to say, and so pulled the woman family: 'cs_prajad2'">inside and closed the family: 'cs_prajad1'">door, leaving Sin out.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sister, did you consent to ?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I…” She shuffled her family: 'cs_prajad2'">feet under his family: 'cs_prajad2'">intense stare. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I did consent. He family: 'cs_prajad2'">explained family: 'cs_prajad1'">what consent was and I gave it. I family: 'cs_prajad1'">feel alright family: 'cs_prajad1'">about all .”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan family: 'cs_prajad2'">pushed the door family: 'cs_prajad1'">open and dragged Sin off to the side.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sin, family: 'cs_prajad2'">that woman is family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">father’s former family: 'cs_prajad1'">wife. She gave birth to family: 'cs_prajad1'">your half-family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother. How, Sin?family:'cs_prajad1'; "> How family: 'cs_prajad2'">could you?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“My family: 'cs_prajad2'">father is dead. family: 'cs_prajad2'">What’s the big deal?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sin…” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan family: 'cs_prajad1'">ruffled his own hair. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“Oh, dear family: 'cs_prajad1'">gods and angels, Sud absolutelyfamily:'cs_prajad1'; "> cannotfamily:'cs_prajad1'; "> learn of .”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Learn of family: 'cs_prajad1'">what?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sud?!” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan jumped.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sorry. I family: 'cs_prajad1'">followed you here.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Uh, I family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad2'">kinda family: 'cs_prajad1'">followed him here as family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">well.” Suwan emerged the family: 'cs_prajad1'">bushes family: 'cs_prajad2'">with Su perched on his family: 'cs_prajad2'">head, and family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan family: 'cs_prajad2'">almost fell to his knees.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Efamily: 'cs_prajad2'">veryone, out. family: 'cs_prajad2'">We’re going back to mainland. Now.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“What? My mom is in the house…”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Now.” family: 'cs_prajad2'">Then, family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan shot Sin a family: 'cs_prajad2'">sharp look. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You and I, family: 'cs_prajad1'">we’ll talk family: 'cs_prajad1'">about later.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Sin family: 'cs_prajad1'">watched the family: 'cs_prajad1'">group leave.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan family: 'cs_prajad1'">circled back and dragged Sin to a rock on a family: 'cs_prajad2'">quiet corner of the family: 'cs_prajad2'">beach. It was under a family: 'cs_prajad2'">banyan tree family: 'cs_prajad2'">that family: 'cs_prajad1'">offered family: 'cs_prajad2'">them shade, the family: 'cs_prajad2'">very family: 'cs_prajad1'">same rock Sin family: 'cs_prajad2'">came to sulk on when he family: 'cs_prajad2'">learned family: 'cs_prajad2'">that family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee was going to marry the family: 'cs_prajad2'">nameless girl.family:'cs_prajad1'; "> “Do you family: 'cs_prajad2'">even love her, papa?”family:'cs_prajad1'; "> That was his exact question.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Why, Sin? family: 'cs_prajad1'">Just why?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I love her, and I family: 'cs_prajad2'">found her first. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Just family: 'cs_prajad2'">because the man who gave birth to me gave her some family: 'cs_prajad2'">kind of illusion, family: 'cs_prajad2'">does family: 'cs_prajad2'">that mean I have to family: 'cs_prajad1'">live family: 'cs_prajad2'">with the heartbreak forever?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sin…I don’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">think her love for family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee was an illusion. Can you actually say family: 'cs_prajad2'">that family: 'cs_prajad1'">what she family: 'cs_prajad1'">feels for you right now is family: 'cs_prajad2'">different family: 'cs_prajad1'">what she family: 'cs_prajad1'">felt for him?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Sin was silent.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Maybe sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s just someone family: 'cs_prajad2'">that goes family: 'cs_prajad2'">with family: 'cs_prajad1'">whatever the family: 'cs_prajad1'">people around her says.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Are you calling her a family: 'cs_prajad2'">mindless, passive woman?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I guess…sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s family: 'cs_prajad2'">doing for her own interests as family: 'cs_prajad1'">well. Having a family is beneficial for her family: 'cs_prajad2'">kind of lifestyle. But…are you family: 'cs_prajad1'">really family: 'cs_prajad1'">happy family: 'cs_prajad2'">doing ? Sin, looks family: 'cs_prajad1'">really wrong to me.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Then don’t look. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan, thank you for all the lessons you’ve given me so far. Thanks for being family when I didn’t have one, but I can make my own decisions.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan bit his lower lip, his fingers twisting the cord his collar.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Alright, Sin. family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m family: 'cs_prajad2'">still on family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">side, but…gosh, I need to sort my thoughts out.” He slowly got up. “How family: 'cs_prajad2'">should I talk to the others?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I don’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind of Sud knows. It’s his mother.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Are you family: 'cs_prajad1'">sure? Alright.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Hey, family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“What?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Do you hate me?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan stared at the side of Sin’s face, family: 'cs_prajad1'">memories of family: 'cs_prajad1'">their time together flashing through his family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“No. Nothing can make me hate you. Not family: 'cs_prajad2'">even .”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Did my family: 'cs_prajad2'">father hate me, though?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“No. He’s…” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan was momentarily at a loss for words. family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You know him. He’s not…in the best shape family: 'cs_prajad1'">after finding out family: 'cs_prajad1'">what family: 'cs_prajad1'">really happened between him and family: 'cs_prajad2'">that woman. He later told me family: 'cs_prajad2'">that he regretted not being there for you.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I see. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">think family: 'cs_prajad2'">it’s for the best family: 'cs_prajad2'">that he d himself and d me his new life. I was a misfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">take. family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m the living refamily: 'cs_prajad2'">minder of his trauma. love of mine is a misfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">take as family: 'cs_prajad2'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">well.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You’re not a misfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">take… You’re my family.” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan was a full cyborg and family: 'cs_prajad2'">could no longer family: 'cs_prajad1'">feel physical pain when he got emotional, but at family: 'cs_prajad2'">that moment, he family: 'cs_prajad1'">felt an unexplainable ache in his chest.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Hey, Sin…family: 'cs_prajad2'">you’re going to be a family: 'cs_prajad2'">father.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Uh-huh.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“That’s a wonderful thing, no?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I guess. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">want family: 'cs_prajad1'">things to be family: 'cs_prajad2'">different for her and for my child.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Never forget family: 'cs_prajad1'">what you just said.” family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan got up and saw a figure running towards family: 'cs_prajad2'">them.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">It was Sud, and before the boy family: 'cs_prajad2'">could rush at Sin, family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan intercepted and threw him down to the ground.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Why are you running family: 'cs_prajad2'">with a knife in family: 'cs_prajad1'">your hands?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“How family: 'cs_prajad2'">could you?! Sfamily: 'cs_prajad2'">he’s my mother!”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Sin sat family: 'cs_prajad2'">still through all family: 'cs_prajad2'">that. Even if Sud stabbed family: 'cs_prajad1'">him, Sin would family: 'cs_prajad2'">still be staring family: 'cs_prajad2'">quietly at his half-family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“How family: 'cs_prajad2'">could you?! Sin, I thought you…I thought we…”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“It is family: 'cs_prajad1'">what it is.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“You’re just like dad! You don’t family: 'cs_prajad1'">feel anything anyfamily: 'cs_prajad1'">more, and you’ll just leave! Forget it! family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m taking my mom family: 'cs_prajad2'">with me!”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Sud.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“What?!”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Ask family: 'cs_prajad1'">your mom where she family: 'cs_prajad2'">wants to go. If she family: 'cs_prajad2'">wants to go family: 'cs_prajad2'">with you, I won’t family: 'cs_prajad2'">stop her.” Sin remained sitting on the rock.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Sud threw the knife down at the sand and stormed back to the house. family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan picked up the knife and turned it around in his hand.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“family: 'cs_prajad1'">I’ll…family: 'cs_prajad1'">come visit family: 'cs_prajad2'">with Su. Maybe Suwan or Khun family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee will family: 'cs_prajad1'">come as family: 'cs_prajad1'">well. We’ll bring gifts. I guess…family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m becoming an uncle.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t be like my family: 'cs_prajad2'">father. I family: 'cs_prajad2'">can’t cut you all off for her sake. Maybe family: 'cs_prajad2'">I’m too weak.” Sin mumbled.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">The woman chose to remain on the island family: 'cs_prajad2'">with Sin, and Sud had a family: 'cs_prajad1'">family: 'cs_prajad1'">feeling family: 'cs_prajad2'">that it would be a family: 'cs_prajad2'">very long time family: 'cs_prajad2'">until he got to see her again.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Days later, Su received contact family: 'cs_prajad1'">Malee en route, instructing family: 'cs_prajad2'">them to go back as soon as possible.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“She said family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee ran family: 'cs_prajad1'">into memory problems in Neo-Tokyo and had to be recalled. We have to get our asses back ASAP. Wakul is family: 'cs_prajad1'">already on her way to pick him and Levana up.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“What happened? Is he remembering his past self?” Sud pulled one of the bird’s tail feathers.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">The bird did not know much family: 'cs_prajad1'">more than family: 'cs_prajad2'">that, and kept saying ‘chirp, chirp’ family: 'cs_prajad2'">until Sud gave up trying to extract family: 'cs_prajad1'">more information.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan stared out at the ocean the entire time. Suwan patted his family: 'cs_prajad2'">shoulder.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“family: 'cs_prajad2'">What’s on family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad2'">mind? Are you family: 'cs_prajad2'">thinking family: 'cs_prajad1'">about Sin?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Yeah. You’re so calm, though. That’s family: 'cs_prajad1'">your family: 'cs_prajad1'">brother we were talking family: 'cs_prajad1'">about.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">“Am I calm?”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad1'">Chan glanced at the other man the corner of his eyes before continuing.

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I was just family: 'cs_prajad2'">thinking. If we can be edited just like Apai, family: 'cs_prajad1'">what’s the point of us family: 'cs_prajad2'">doing anything? We family: 'cs_prajad2'">could just shove a memory of him winning the music festival at Neo-Tokyo and family: 'cs_prajad2'">he’d be perfectly family: 'cs_prajad1'">happy for the rest of his life. We family: 'cs_prajad2'">could inject a memory of him getting along family: 'cs_prajad2'">with his wife and son. Does it family: 'cs_prajad2'">even matter family: 'cs_prajad2'">that they’re just family: 'cs_prajad1'">memories? To family: 'cs_prajad1'">him, they’re the absolute truth.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">family: 'cs_prajad2'">“I don’t know. I wish I was a part of his life for real, though.”

family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Both of family: 'cs_prajad2'">them stared at the horizon, where they family: 'cs_prajad2'">could see the silhouette of the Bangkok metropolis where family: 'cs_prajad1'">Apaimanee family: 'cs_prajad2'">once roamed. 

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family:'cs_prajad1'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-">Hi there. Thanks for reading to the end. I had fun writing .

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