[He nods, accepting that answer. They're stuck here, so unless Ryouma comes to this world Izo will never find that answer anyway. It's better to move forward and find a place here than get caught up in the past.

Lalli is still working on that. The nightmares of Tuuri's death are less frequent now.]

Eight. And Tuuri was ten. Onni was older, he was already sixteen, so he could work. But they made me train at the school until I was twelve before they let me go and scout in the woods by the base.

It was so stupid. I had been going on scouting trips with Grandma since I was six, I already knew what to do. I had even been to the Silent World before! But they said I had to get trained in THEIR ways of scouting before I could go out on my own.