La Famiglia

Later that day, when the stranger had departed, Pica asked her son if he had been frightened to meet him.

“No Moma, I am not frightened of him. He is famiglia.”

“But you have never met him before my son, why would you say that?”

"Because Moma, he has visited me ever since I was very small. He must live close to us I think because he is always coming here.”

And with that he returned to his play, neatly parcelling the little carvings back into the giant ark.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances