"It's not like I was that noble, even then," Kyoko muttered, an amused aside. "And I can't really call 'going to the same spot every day' an adventure.... " Well, meeting a fairy probably qualified as an adventure in some way, but she hadn't settled quite yet on whether that was something to tell Kaito about. Looking through the dark--ah, was it actually starting to edge into a sort of pre-dawn grey? or had her eyes simply adjusted?--Kyoko watched him thoughtfully.

"But I had good company that summer, so it was always fun, even if all we did was talk and play with rocks by the stream."