At breakfast, Elliot brought up the dream he had had the night before.
"Avery, I think I should make a trip there." Elliot wanted to go up the hill to confirm his dream.
"Elliot, I have seen all the children there. Ivy is not there. I’m sure of it. There is not a child that looks like me or you." Avery carefully thought back to the children’s faces as she said that. "If you don’t believe me, when Layla returns, you can go through the photos in her phone once more."
Elliot has seen the group photo the night before. However, at that time, he had only glanced at it. He had not looked at it carefully.
"Maybe it’s because I didn’t take you along up the hill the last two times, so you feel left out, which is why you had that dream," Avery proposed. "The next time, when the weather is better, I'll take you there to have a look. If I don't, I'm afraid that you'll keep thinking about it."
"Hmm, maybe it is like what you said. If Ivy is on that hill, how would we not have found her after so long?" At that, Elliot decided that he would go and ask the men that he had sent out to search for Ivy if they had ever investigated Hightide Chapel.
"Elliot, Aryadelle is huge. It would be really easy to hide a person. Mainly because Ivy is small. Even if we sent men up the hill to look for her, as long as Ivy is being hidden, she would be missable, right?"
"Let's have breakfast!" This topic was too heavy. Elliot was afraid that he would lose his appetite if he were to continue discussing it.
Avery picked up her cup of milk and drank some. "Elliot, I saw your family photo album again this morning. You were really cute when you were young. Too bad our children look like me. Why do you think that is?"
Elliot responded, "It's good that they look like you. You're so adorable. Our children are adorable, too."
Avery said, "But I think you looked adorable when you were young, too. Adorable and handsome."
"Maybe your genes are stronger, so the children look more like you." Elliot had never thought of this question before.
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