“do you promise me?”
“Huh?”
“do you promise… you will come back?”
He couldn’t. He could never, there was no way to know.
Yet…
“Of course. I promise. I promise I will come back.”
None of them knew the burden of promises.
“that’s all i need, bunny. thank you.”
“Hoho, we still have plenty sleepovers to do, gramps!”
“urgh, and you’re uninvited from ALL OF THEM.”
“Hohoho!”